Built by NPZ/НПЗ (Новосибирский Приборостроительный Завод/Novosibirsk Instrument-Building Plant), initial production and troops trials began in 1993, with adoption by the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs) happening on June 7th, 1995 (Pavel, 2010). The НИТЬ appears to have never been adopted by the Russian army as it never received an offical GRAU number. Documented manuals (currently only two) have final inspection dates in 2008 and 2009, suggesting production was restarted at least once by NPZ.

Some military marked scopes are marked НИТЬ-A instead of НИТЬ.

Images



With Russian soldiers.



Reticle.



Variants

The hammer and sickle style mark was generally reserved by NPZ for military versions of their scopes while the triple triangle logo was used on products intended for commerial sale.

It is unclear what the difference is between the НИТЬ and НИТЬ-A. The НИТЬ-A marking seems to only show up on military marked sights, although NPZ marked sights do sometimes have the -A marking stamped but not painted in.

Military НИТЬ-A

Military НИТЬ with -A stamp.

NPZ НИТЬ with -A stamp.

NPZ НИТЬ

Serial Numbers

Their appears to be two separate serial number ranges, one for military marked scopes and the other for civilian scopes.

The serial numbers follow NPZ's normal method with civilian market sights having a simple numeric serial number and military marked sights having a letter prefix before the serial number.

Serial	Model	Mark	Images	Notes
0082	НИТЬ	NPZ Triangle	2 3 4 5
00463	НИТЬ	NPZ Triangle
00477	НИТЬ	NPZ Triangle
00489	НИТЬ	NPZ Triangle	2 3 4 5	Manual has an inspection date of March 23, 2008.
00525	НИТЬ	NPZ Triangle
00540	НИТЬ	NPZ Triangle	2 3
00747	НИТЬ	NPZ Triangle	2 3 4 5 6	Modified for electric illumination.
00802	НИТЬ	NPZ Triangle		Missing sun shade.
00826	НИТЬ	NPZ Triangle	2 3 4 5 6
00876	НИТЬ	NPZ Triangle	2
P0026	НИТЬ-A	Hammer and Sickle	2 3
P0134	НИТЬ	Hammer and Sickle	2 3 4 5 6 7
P0162	НИТЬ-A	Hammer and Sickle	2 3 4 5	Manual has an inspection date of February 21, 2009.
P0168	НИТЬ	Hammer and Sickle	2 3

References

Pavel, P. (2010). (Retrieved November 5, 2023) Нить-А - коллиматорный прицел. Описание, характеристики, фотографии, боевое применение. http://www.ak-info.ru/joomla/index.php/devices/9-optics/155-nit


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