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AN/PVS-4 (Night Vision Sight, Individual Served Weapon, AN/PVS-4) is the U.S. military designation for a specification of the first second generation passive Night vision device. The AN/PVS-4 first saw widespread use during the Gulf War and later some deployment in the Iraq War and has since been replaced by modern third-generation weapon sights.
The Elcan Specter is a line of multi-role prism sights created by Raytheon ELCAN Optical Technologies originally designed for M16/M4 family of rifles but now also exists for light machine gun and heavy machine guns. Most of the optics are capable of switching between magnifications and illumination.
1PN51-2 reflector-based night sight for the RPG-29. [87] 1PN58 refractor-based night sight for a range of small arms and grenade launchers. [88] 1PN93-2 reflector-based night sight for the RPG-7D3, see photo. 1PN110, a more recent (~Gen 3) night sight for the RPG-29. [89] 1PN113, a night sight similar to the 1PN110, for the SV-98 sniper rifle. [89]
This is a list of United States Army fire control, and sighting material by supply catalog designation, or Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group "F".The United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalog used an alpha-numeric nomenclature system from about the mid-1920s to about 1958.
The first ACOG model, known as the TA01, was released in 1987. [3] [4] An example was tested on the Stoner 93 in the early 1990s by the Royal Thai Armed Forces. [5]In 1995, United States Special Operations Command selected the 4×32 TA01 as the official scope for the M4 carbine and purchased 12,000 units from Trijicon. [6]
The AN/PEQ-2 has two infrared laser emitters;one narrow beam used for aiming the rifle and one wide beam used for illuminating targets, like a flashlight. [9] The beams can only be seen through night vision goggles. [9]
Miniature Night Sight (MNS) night vision weapon sight: L3 Technologies: AN/PVS-18: Night Vision Monocular handheld or helmet mounted: L3 Technologies [179] AN/PVS-20: Night vision sight for crew served weapons: L3 Technologies [180] AN/PVS-21: Low Profile NVG: Steiner-Optik: AN/PVS-22: Universal Night Sight (UNS) clip-on night vision sight ...
The AN/PVS-17 Miniature Night Sight (MNS) is a compact, lightweight and high performance night vision weapon sight. It is in wide use by the US Army Special Forces , and USMC . The AN/PVS-17 is a Generation III Night Vision Device , and uses the OMNI IV MX 10160 3rd generation image intensifier tube, it can also be used as a handheld ...