photoracer
Competition Shooter
Looks like alot of scopes including the athalon ,sun .Trenier,Leapers UTG.Sightron..Hawke may all be made in th UK by MTC ....https://trenieroutdoors.com/optics-2/
I doubt is a Leapers UTG and Sun are both Chinese companies.
I found an optics forum that talked to the owners. Turns out the Athlon Cronus line is made in Japan and all their other scopes are made in China. Some opinions are that the same Chinese factory that turns out Primary Arms scopes turns out Athlon ones also but with Athlon reticles. An opinion is the 2 engineers that founded Athlon are former Bushnell employees sort of like the bunch of Leupold employees that left and formed Sig Optics. If you get past some of the uneducated hype being put out their scopes are getting decent reviews, just don't believe anyone can make a scope as good as the top tier for under $500. Not possible due to cost of materials. Their 8-34x56 scope gets a little fuzzy past about 24x which is a sign that its not using ED optics and that is why it costs like it does.