A typical Swarovski Optik telescope costs about $3,000–5000 and is compared in quality to Carl Zeiss products, specified a advanced price and parameters make real users not average hunters, but elite military units and peculiar services – including Russian FSB formations and GRU specnaz engaged in the war against Ukraine. A akin conclusion appears in the analysis of the Begin–Sadat Center for strategical Studies "Sniper Rifles and Microchips: Who Enables the Russian War device in Ukraine", where it is stressed that the western precision optics, alongside microelectronics, is 1 of the key "intensifiers" of the effectiveness of the Russian army.
