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  2. Tactical light - Wikipedia

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    A tactical light mounted to the bottom rail of a rifle Tactical light and a target in a low-light environment. A tactical light or weapon light is a flashlight used in conjunction with a firearm to aid low-light target identification, allowing the user to simultaneously aim a weapon and illuminate the target. Tactical lights can be handheld or ...

  3. SureFire - Wikipedia

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    Surefire also produces military weapon lights for mounting on handguns, rifles, sub-machine guns and shotguns. Surefire's Z2 CombatLight is standard issue to the FBI and the Federal Air Marshal Service, [9] and their various handheld lights are a frequent choice of police, military, fire, and EMS personnel. Some models of handheld flashlights ...

  4. AN/PEQ-15 - Wikipedia

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    The Advanced Target Pointer Illuminator Aiming Laser, ATPIAL AN/PEQ-15 known colloquially as the "PEQ-15" [/ p ɛ k / / f ɪ f t iː n /] produced by L3Harris (originally designed and manufactured by Insight Technology, until their acquisition by L3Harris in 2010); is a multifunction IR Target Pointer & Illuminator, a.k.a. a Laser Aiming Module (LAM) for use as a rifle attachment, using a ...

  5. SMASH Handheld - Wikipedia

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    SMASH Handheld on an IDF M4A1 Carbine assault rifle SMASH which is a contraction of the three first letters of "Smart" and two first letters of "Shooter". When installed on an assault rifle , it uses an advanced artificial intelligence -powered machine vision to assist in aiming shots more precisely.

  6. SureFire MGX - Wikipedia

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    The SureFire MGX is a light machine gun designed by Jim Sullivan, Bob Waterfield, Alan Ostrowski, Paul Latulippe Jr. and Hyunjung Samuel Eyssautier in 2002 and produced in prototype form only by ArmWest, LLC and marketed by SureFire, LLC as a technology demonstrator.

  7. Safety (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    The most common form of safety mechanism is a switch, button or lever that when set to the "safe" position, prevents the firing of a firearm. [1] Manual safeties are as varied as the designs of firearms themselves, but the two most common mechanisms are a block or latch that prevents the trigger and/or firing mechanism from moving, and a device ...

  8. Battlefield illumination - Wikipedia

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    Battlefield illumination is technology that improves visibility for military forces operating in difficult low-light conditions. The risks and dangers to armies fighting in poor light have been known since Ancient Chinese times. [1] Prior to the advent of the electrical age, fire was used to improve visibility on the battlefield.

  9. Nightforce Optics - Wikipedia

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    Military contracts started to arrive in the early 2000s, and the company bidded in the Precision Sniper Rifle program in 2009 but lost out to Schmidt & Bender. However, in 2010, the company was awarded a $25.8 million firm-fixed-price contract to manufacture scopes for special forces and snipers in the Army , Navy , Air Force and Marine Corps ...