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SureFire, LLC. is an American company headquartered in Fountain Valley, California. Their main products are flashlights , weapon-mounted lights , headlamps, and laser sights . In addition, Surefire produces knives , sound suppressors , earplugs , Picatinny Rails , magazines, and batteries . [ 4 ]
Singaporean soldier aiming a SAR 21 with laser sight. A laser sight is a device attached or integral to a firearm to aid target acquisition. Unlike optical and iron sights where the user looks through the device to aim at the target, laser sights project a beam onto the target, providing a visual reference point.
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 ...
The user then adjusts the iron sights or scope reticle to align the point of aim with the projected laser dot. Another more commonly used type of laser boresighter is attached to the muzzle of the barrel, either inserted straight into the bore ("arbor" type) or held in alignment with the barrel via a magnet, and projects a laser beam onto the ...
The Outfit DEC or Laser Dazzle Sight (LDS) is a British ship-based laser. The veiling-glare laser utilizes ultraviolet light and is designed to dazzle by causing fluorescence in the lens of the human eye. There are other such laser weapon systems in development. [2] [23] [24] [25] PHaSR, a United States dazzler-style weapon
Precision-guided small arms prototypes have been developed which use a laser designator to guide an electronically actuated bullet to a target. [8] Another system in development uses a laser range finder to trigger an explosive small arms shell in proximity to a target. As of 2009, the U.S. Army has plans to use such devices in the future.
Aimpoint ECOS-N (Enhanced Combat Optical Sight-Navy), a variant of the CompM2 using the Wilcox Aimpoint CompM mount instead of the standard issue QRP mount; Tactical Ordnance and Equipment Improved Combat Sling, which allows for secure cross body/patrol carry. Precision Reflex, Inc. (PRI) M69 Bracket Mount for the AN/PVS-14 night vision device.
American soldiers using a coincidence rangefinder with its distinctive single eyepiece during army maneuvers in the 1940s. A coincidence rangefinder or coincidence telemeter is a type of rangefinder that uses the principle of triangulation and an optical device to allow an operator to determine the distance to a visible object.