Welcome once again night vision aficionados. Today we take a look at an oldie but goodie, the AN/PVS-5. The PVS-5 was the US Army’s first binocular night vision goggle. They were actually used for the USAF in the 70s. The Friday Night Lights series is brought to [Read More…]
This Friday Night Lights we will continue the Dual Tube Spotlight mini-series where we take a look at binocular night vision goggles. This week we have the Elbit Systems of America F5032. It is also known as the SBNVG and PVS-31D. The Friday Night Lights series is [Read More…]
Good evening everyone and welcome back to TFB’s Friday Night Lights series. We are excited to announce that FNL is now sponsored by ATN Corp, manufacturers of night vision and thermal optics like the THOR LT. As with all of our sponsored series, Friday Night Lights [Read More…]
For this week’s installment on Friday Night Lights, you get a two-for-one Dual Tube Spotlight. Just before flying out to New Orleans for TFB Gunfest, I met up with Alex Ko of Nocorium. He had a set of DTNVS and BNVD-1531 housings that he was patterning for his NVG [Read More…]
This week on Friday Night Lights we have another installment of Dual Tube Spotlight. Today we will take a look at a particular binocular housing that has a small foothold in the night vision market. Night Vision Devices makes Binocular Night Vision Devices (BNVDs) and [Read More…]
For this week’s Friday Night Lights we resume our Dual Tube Spotlight and look at a new bino NVG from ATN. The ATN PS31 is an articulating housing that resembles an L3 PVS-31 but it has features that set it apart from the pinnacle of dual tube night vision [Read More…]
For this week’s edition of Friday Night Lights, we resume our Dual Tube Spotlight and take a look at probably the most popular articulating dual tube bino housing on the market. The DTNVG (Dual Tube Night Vision Goggle) is made in Luxembourg by Act In Black and [Read More…]
For this week’s Friday Night Lights we will take a look at not just one but three dual tube setups. The RNVG, Sentinel and ANVS goggles. They are very similar to each other and actually are evolutions of each other. You can almost think of them as grandparent, [Read More…]
A rather newcomer to the night vision industry, AGM Global Vision has a budget-friendly dual tube night vision goggle called the NVG-50. Actually, it looks a lot like the ARMASIGHT BNVD-51 which was brought under FLIR for a time. The NVG-50 is feature-packed and boasts [Read More…]
For Friday Night Lights I want to start a new ongoing series called Dual Tube Spotlight where we take a look at specific dual tube night vision goggles. I have already gone into some detail about various monocular devices and have spotlighted some interesting dual tube [Read More…]
In business since 1991, Thompson Machine has been a silent mainstay of the the suppressor community, producing quality cans at affordable prices. Today, their entire product line is composed of monocore silencers – the internal baffle structure is composed of a [Read More…]
AGM Global Vision are adding laser rangefinders to their Rattler series of thermal weapon sights. Anyone who has used a thermal device knows the difficulty to accurately determine the range to objects out in the dark. The addition of a laser rangefinder (LRF) takes out [Read More…]
One of the country’s leading digital night vision device manufactures has landed a pretty big contract with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. SIONYX recently acquired a 5-year long contract to provide FBI agents with the pocket-sized Aurora PRO digital night [Read More…]
I know my lane – if you are looking for a 300BLK or rimfire suppressor, I can probably point you in the right direction. But, if you want to see in the dark, I’ll hand you off to someone like Nick C. who, if he can put down his LEGO Millennium Falcon long [Read More…]
On this week’s edition of Friday Night Lights, we bring you another Dual Tube Spotlight. This is where we review a binocular night vision goggle. This time we are looking at a newcomer to the night vision scene, Nocturn Industries. They are coming out with a 3D [Read More…]
Last month I wrote about the new company, Nocorium. At the time I wrote that, Alex of Nocorium only had wraps for three devices; PVS-14, RNVG, and DTNVG. However, Alex had already forged on ahead wrapping other devices. I previewed a handful of them last month and that [Read More…]
There is a common trope in the night vision world: 1 < 2 < 4. These numbers refer to the quantity of tubes used in different sets of NODs (Night-vision Optical Devices). Monoculars like the PVS-14 or Photonis Vyper-14 are inherently more limited than binocular [Read More…]
When getting into night vision a lot of people focus on the specs of the image intensifier tube. In this week’s episode of Friday Night Lights, I will go over night vision specs and try to explain the different generations of night vision. Hopefully, this will [Read More…]
For this week’s Friday Night Lights spotlight we will take a closer look at the SiOnyx Aurora. Last November I wrote an article about the validity of digital night vision technology. Click here to refresh your memory. I mentioned two strong candidates that can [Read More…]
For the 2nd year in a row the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) is championing August as the National Shooting Sports Month (NSSM). The purpose of the NSSF’s mission for August being National Shooting Sports Month is to spotlight the fun and safe activity [Read More…]
I recently picked up an Armasight AIM, which is a novel way of outfitting a rifle with night vision capability. If you’re already intimately familiar with night vision systems (Say, if you know what the pots are and where to find them) and just want to hear about [Read More…]
While at the Nightforce industry event back in November 2016, TFB received the privilege of talking one on one with Ray Dennis, the Australian dentist who founded one of the premier optics companies of our time. The Firearm Blog- Before we get into the history of [Read More…]
