MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – U.S. particular operations specialists wanted commonplace and long-range daylight and nighttime rifle scopes for particular operations warfighters. They discovered their answer from Nightforce Optics Inc. in Orofino, Idaho.
Officers of U.S. Particular Operations Command at MacDill Air Pressure Base, Fla., introduced a $17.7 million order final week for Squad-Variable Powered Scopes (S-VPS) and Precision-Variable Energy Scopes (P-VPS) rifle scopes.
The S-VPS is the Nightforce ATACR 1-8X24 F1 low-power electro-optical variable rifle scope that features ED glass, daylight illumination, an clever reticle, low-profile changes, and a area of view at 1x equal to open sights, but extra exact, firm officers say.
The rifle sight is barely longer than 10 inches, and weighs 21 ounces. Its daylight seen middle pink dot permits for speedy engagements.
The sight offers as a lot as 8x zoom to assist find, establish, and interact targets on the most efficient vary of most rifles. Its clever FC-DM first focal aircraft reticle offers exact maintain and hold-off factors.
The rifle sight low-profile turrets are capped to forestall unintended adjustment and supply 0.1 mil-radian adjustment. The sight has an built-in energy throw lever to help in quick magnification changes.
The P-VPS consists of the Nightforce MIL-SPEC ATACR 5-25×56 F1 and the MIL-SPEC ATACR 7-35×56 F1, which shall be built-in as the usual and the long-range options for U.S. Particular Operations Command’s Sniper Weapon Techniques.
The Nightforce MIL-SPEC ATACR 5-25 and 7-35 are designed to supply improved goal detection, acquisition, and hit likelihood for engagements out to 1500 meters and past.
The Nightforce MIL-SPEC ATACR 5-25 and 7-35 allow extended-range goal detection and mechanical adjustment. Each optics function Nightforce’s ED glass, 0.1 Mil-Radian adjustment worth for windage and elevation, the Horus Imaginative and prescient TREMOR3 reticle, and a tan, hardcoat anodized end.
These rifle sights optics additionally use a Nightforce scope mount and laser vary finder to allow particular operations snipers rapidly to detect, vary, and obtain firing options.
The brand new optics are to reinforce a number of totally different programs within the Particular Operations Command stock and can coincide with the discharge and fielding of the Mk22 Sniper System, based mostly on the Multi-role Adaptive Design (MRAD) bolt-action rifle from Barrett Firearms Manufacturing in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
For extra info contact Nightforce Optics on-line at www.nightforceoptics.com, or Particular Operations Command at www.socom.mil.
