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Long Range Scopes and Other Optics
Schmidt & Bender Awarded the PSR Contract
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<blockquote data-quote="lightwind" data-source="post: 522362" data-attributes="member: 30140"><p>Matt: I must have phrased my text incorrectly. I was not implying that German glass is better than Japanese glass or that there are not good companies in the US that manufacture scopes (I have some of my own). What I was trying to find out is the quality of glass that is manufactured in the US. In other words, is there any source of glass in the US that can match the quality of Schott or other high-end manufacturers. Specifically, as you said, we know where Zeiss, Swarovski and S&B get there glass because they tell you. Having said that, is the ability of manufacturing the glass that can meet the standards of the alpha scopes something we have shoved off-shore like most of our manufacturing or can we still make first rate glass in the US. This was probably poorly presented by me as a statement that most of the glass came from Asia and I did not include Germany. What I was really interested in is our ability to make this critical material here or if we have to import it in all cases. I believe we have shipped too many critical technical capability off shore and would like to see some of that capability back here. Is Germany the state of the art technology? Do we have anything that good here?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lightwind, post: 522362, member: 30140"] Matt: I must have phrased my text incorrectly. I was not implying that German glass is better than Japanese glass or that there are not good companies in the US that manufacture scopes (I have some of my own). What I was trying to find out is the quality of glass that is manufactured in the US. In other words, is there any source of glass in the US that can match the quality of Schott or other high-end manufacturers. Specifically, as you said, we know where Zeiss, Swarovski and S&B get there glass because they tell you. Having said that, is the ability of manufacturing the glass that can meet the standards of the alpha scopes something we have shoved off-shore like most of our manufacturing or can we still make first rate glass in the US. This was probably poorly presented by me as a statement that most of the glass came from Asia and I did not include Germany. What I was really interested in is our ability to make this critical material here or if we have to import it in all cases. I believe we have shipped too many critical technical capability off shore and would like to see some of that capability back here. Is Germany the state of the art technology? Do we have anything that good here? [/QUOTE]
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