| A dedicated night vision weapon sight is one that | | | | very popular due to it's versatility in use, such as being |
| replaces a day scope for any type of gun or rifle. In | | | | weapons mountable, camera adaptable, helmet |
| other words, it is a weapon sight or scope all to itself. It | | | | mountable, head mountable, and hand held, it is not |
| includes a housing, an objective lens (typically a | | | | optimal for long range shooting. |
| magnification of no less than 4x), a night vision image | | | | It is worth mentioning that there is a new piece of |
| tube, and usually, an infrared illuminator is included to | | | | equipment available now to the night vision long range |
| help with aiming. Dedicated night vision scopes are | | | | shooter called the AN/PVS-22. It is called a weapon |
| usually set up to be mounted to a Weaver and/or | | | | sight because it was designed to be mounted on a |
| Picatinny rail system. Dedicated night vision weapon | | | | weapon or rifle, but it is not quite a "dedicated weapon |
| scopes, more often than not, are the better way to go | | | | sight". The reason being that it isn't a stand alone |
| if you are looking to achieve pinpoint accuracy in your | | | | scope. The PVS-22 is a unique night vision system |
| aiming and shooting at night. Particularly at long | | | | that is small enough to mount in front of any |
| distances, where windage and elevation adjustments | | | | boresighted daytime scope. Scope magnification can |
| become critical to obtain accuracy. | | | | range from one to twelve power. The PVS-22 does |
| Weapons mountable night vision monoculars, on the | | | | not require any boresighting and once mounted the |
| other hand, are not quite as accurate because they | | | | daysight provides the aiming point. The PVS-22 |
| require an additional sighting system or scope to be | | | | maintains boresight despite normal misalignments due |
| mounted in front of them on the rail. While this does | | | | to mount position errors and does not alter the sighting |
| provide accuracy at closer distances and CQB | | | | centerline (parallax is unchanged from dayscope). The |
| situations, it does not provide the accuracy or the | | | | UNS (Universal Night Sight) also contains no beam |
| magnification you need for longer distances. Providing | | | | splitter or folded optics to go out of alignment. The |
| magnification to a monocular mounted system is | | | | PVS-22 can maintain accuracy at longer distances |
| difficult. Monoculars typically get manufactured and | | | | because the larger the magnification, the narrower the |
| come standard with a 1x objective lens. 3x and 5x | | | | field of view. The narrow the field of view, the more |
| magnifier lenses are accessory items, and typically | | | | channeled it is through the PVS-22. |
| cannot be mounted onto the monocular and put behind | | | | While the AN/PVS-22 may maintain a level of |
| a sighting system, such as the Eotech or Aimpoint. The | | | | accuracy for long range shooting at night, it doesn't |
| weapon or rifle rail is many times not long enough, and | | | | come much cheaper than a dedicated night vision |
| if you are able to get it to fit, it looks awkward. Suffice | | | | scope. In fact, it may even be more expensive. It just |
| it say, that if you are looking to get a monocular for | | | | depends on the quality of the night vision image tube in |
| long distance aiming and shooting at night, you may | | | | it. |
| want to rethink your options. While the monocular is | | | | |