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Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2]
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 ...
Coincidence rangefinders work through the principle of triangulation. In the pictured example, triangulation can be used to determine the range of the ship 𝑑.The position of the lenses A and B are known, and the angle of the lenses α and/or β is set by the operator so that both are aimed at the target.
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] Each beam can be zeroed independently, and the illuminator's radius is adjustable. The two lasers are tied into one 6-mode ...
Reflector sights were first used as a weapon sight in German aircraft towards the end of World War I. Over the years they became more sophisticated, adding lead computing gyroscopes and electronics (the World War II Gyro gunsight ) [ 8 ] radar range finding and other flight information in the 1950s and 1960s, eventually becoming the modern head ...
ELCAN is perhaps best known for making the prismatic C79 optical sight that is widely used on the Colt Canada C7 and C8, FN Minimi, FN MAG and CZ-805 BREN families of firearms. The C79 is not designed as a sniper sight per se , but is rather intended to be mounted on a variety of service rifles used by regular infantrymen as well as designated ...
USP-1 or "Tyulpan" (From Russian: Унифицированный Стрелковый Прицел, первый образец, Unifitsirovannyj Strelkovyj Pritsel, pervyj obrazets, "Unified Firearm Sight, first model, GRAU index 1P29) is a Soviet/Russian universal optic sight, used on the AK rifle family (AKMN, AK-74N, AK-74M, AK-101, AK-102, AK-105), the RPK-74N, the PKMN and the PKP ...
Sosna-U sight. The Sosna-U (Russian: Сосна-У, "Pine-U") is a Belarusian/Russian tank gunner's sight used on tanks such as the T-72B3, T-80BVM and T-90MS. [1] [2] It was developed in Belarus by JSC Peleng and later produced in Russia by JSC VOMZ. [3] [4] It features a daylight sight, a thermal sight and a laser rangefinder. The sight ...