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

Images



Picutre of an AK74M with a 1p29 on a shorter offset mount. Probably a developmental prototype.




With Russian soldiers on AK74M rifles.




With Russian soldiers on PKM machine gun.




With Russian soldiers on AS VAL rifles.




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

Video by 9 Hole Reveiews

Manufactuer Marks

1P29 Техприбор

1P29 Hammer and Sickle

UPO-1-1 Hammer and Sickle

UPO-1-1 NPZ

UPO-2 NPZ

UPO-2 No manufactuer mark

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
14013	UPO-1-1	2 3 4 5 6 7 8	Has a July 3, 2014 production date. Marked with the pentagon and triangle of NPZ (Novosibirsk Instrument Making Plant).
16017	UPO-1-1	2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
NE0027	1П29	2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
NЖ0593	1П29
NЗ0361	1П29
NЗ0932	1П29	2 3 4	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
NЗ1794	1П29	2 3 4 5 6	Marked with triangle logo of Техприбор (Techpribor) factory in St. Petersburg.
NИ0110	1П29
NИ0205	1П29
NИ0311	1П29
NИ0334	1П29
NЛ0626	1П29	2 3 4 5 6
NP00135	UPO-2	2 3 4 5 6	Has a July 7, 2000 production date. Marked with the pentagon and triangle of NPZ (Novosibirsk Instrument Making Plant).
NT0028	1П29	2 3 4 5 6 7	Has angular scope body. Front marked AИ-183, could also be ЛИ-183.
NT0019	UPO-2
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	2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
NЧ0662	1П29
NЧ0726	1П29	2 3 4 5 6
NШ0689	1П29	2 3 4 5
NШ0761	1П29	2 3 4
NЩ0857	1П29	2 3 4 5	Field modified for battery illumination of reticle.
NЮ0808	1П29

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