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Meprolight Unveils a new Thermal Weapon Sight at the Shot Show

Meprolight is launching a new weapon sight at the Shot Show taking place at Las Vegas next week. The company will unveil the NYX 3X, a compact, uncooled Thermal Weapon Sight (TWS) offering X2.7 magnification. At a weight lower than one kilogram (less than 2.2 Lbs) this sight is designed to sustain recoils of 5.56, 7.62 and 338 Cal. rifles. Designed for military applications, NYX 3X meets the highest MIL SPEC requirements. The new sight extends the company's line of sights supporting different magnifications of 2X, 3X, and 7X, meeting a wide range of operational and tactical needs.

Other Meprolight products to be displayed include enhanced NOA XT4 Thermal Weapon/Surveillance clip-on thermal sight, the MEPRO 4X, and the MEPRO M5 Red-Dot electro-optical sight, optimized for 'both eyes open' shooting, will make their first appearances at the Shot Show.


Meprolight NOA NYX 3X Thermal Sight. Photo: Meprolight

The MEPRO 4X is a 1.7 Ibs combat 4x scope. Utilizing a quick release Picatinny adaptor, this MIL-STD sight provides five different brightness settings. The sight operates with a single standard battery and is equipped with an energy saver feature for extended operation.

The MEPRO M5 is a 0.7 lb MIL-STD, used with light machine guns, assault rifles, and sub-machine guns, the M5 features an enlarged 33 x 22 display and a 2-MOA red-dot aiming point with four variable brightness settings, and enables up to 8,000 hours of operation.


Meprolight – M5, optimized for "both eyes open" shooting. Photo: Meprolight

Meprolight Introduces a new Thermal Weapon Sight | Defense Update - Military Technology & Defense News
 

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You can allways purchase it from us, MSBS family of firearms should be ready for mass production in classic and bullpup configurations soon, I think that 2014 and 2015 will be the start of mass production for Polish Army,
 

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You can allways purchase it from us, MSBS family of firearms should be ready for mass production in classic and bullpup configurations soon, I think that 2014 and 2015 will be the start of mass production for Polish Army,
Damian wants Poland to equip the IA. :tsk:
 

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Damian wants Poland to equip the IA.
Well why not, I know that MSBS have increasing interest in USA, and overall it is more modern and more progressive firearm than most other of it's analogs, if not all.

Also products of Fabryka Broni Łucznik have a very good opinion in USA for their quality and reliability, I know that for example AK's made by FB Łucznik are considered as higher quality and more reliable than AK's made by other manufacturers, so definetely MSBS will also be very reliable (it must be, Polish Army had been using AK's for a very long time, thus reliability of new firearm needs to be at least same) and high quality product.

Also take note that MSBS can be reconfigured from classic design in to bullpup and vice versa with simple tool pack. Which means a commonality of components between the two variants and their specialized subvariants, thus reducing costs of procurement, improving logistics etc.

In such case MSBS can replace probably 80 to 90 % of other types of firearms in armed forces. So you can issue standard versions to infantry and bullpup to the special forces, security forces, rear eshelon units or for example vehicle crews and pilots.

Also take a note that MSBS of course have currently only 5,56x45mm version, but later 7,62x51mm will follow and 7,62x39mm and 5,45x39mm as well as 6,8mm versions might and probably definetely will be designed because weapon design is 100% modular.

So MSBS in the end might estabilish a new trends in firearms designing, if hopefully it will be successfull design.
 

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