The 1p29 is a Russian copy of the British SUIT scope. A commerical version was sold under the name UPO-1.

Images



With Russian soldiers on AK74M rifles.




Russian paratrooper on exercise with 1p29 equipped AK74M. The paratrooper in the background looks to be also equipped with a 1p29 on his machine gun.




With Russian soldiers on PKM machine gun.




With Russian soldiers on AN94 rifle.




With Russian soldiers during the 2014 fighting in east Ukraine on AK74M rifles.




With Cypriot soldiers on AK100 (probably AK74M possibly AK101) rifles.




With Indian navy MARCOS. First two photos from Wular Lake, Kashmir. Standing soldier in the first photo has a 1P76 Rakurs mounted on his rifle. Rifles look to be Russian AK103.




Scope specifications from Rosoboronexport.




Reticle. It retains the unique SUIT style of a top down post, but adds a range finder to the right.




Russian manual that came with a 1p29 marked scope serial Ю0907. Not sure on date, bottom left of last page is marked '05.93' (May 1993)?



VIDEOS

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Serial Numbers

All serial numbers are prefixed by a N, followed by a letter from the Russian cyrillic alphabet and then a four digit number.
Highest number observed in a given letter block is 1662. If 1662 scopes were produced using all 33 letter blocks total production would be 54,846 scopes.
Military scopes are marked 1П29. Civilian scopes are marked UPO-1 or UPO-1-1.

Serial	Model	Images	Notes
NE0027	1П29
NЖ0593	1П29
NЗ0361	1П29
NЗ0932	1П29		Marked with triangle logo of Техприбор (Techpribor) factory in St. Petersburg.
NЗ1287	1П29		Marked with triangle logo of Техприбор (Techpribor) factory in St. Petersburg. Modified with LED reticle illumination.
NЗ1311	1П29		Marked with triangle logo of Техприбор (Techpribor) factory in St. Petersburg.
NЗ1662	1П29
NИ0110	1П29
NИ0205	1П29
NИ0311	1П29
NИ0334	1П29
NЛ0626	1П29
NT0028	1П29		Has angular scope body. Front marked AИ-183, could also be ЛИ-183.
NT00x2	1П29		Hard to make out third digit. Front marked ЛИ-215.
NT0136	1П29		Mounted on AN94.
NT0162	1П29		Has angular scope body. Front marked AИ-247, could also be ЛИ-247.
NT0296	1П29		In Rosoboronexport pdf file for USP-1.
NЧ0580	1П29
NЧ0662	1П29
NЧ0726	1П29
NШ0689	1П29
NШ0761	1П29
NЩ0857	1П29		Field modified for battery illumination of reticle.
NЮ0808	1П29
NЮ0907	1П29		Pending photo.

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