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Moreover, in March 2013 Thies completed deliveries of 8,000 Lightweight Day Sights integrated with Close Quarter Battlesights--this was under an separate contract, in addition to the main Fist contract.

All about power: with the years the term "Future Soldier Programme" has become hardly applicable in a certain number of nations, although many, if not most of the systems announced by certain nations, yet need to enter service. Some soldier modernisation programmes, or SMPs in short, have been announced, but work is still in the starting blocks

The day sight uses a small lens cap and the night sight takes a large lens cap.

You can't hit what you can't see

The fire control system includes a day sight optics, an eyesafe laser rangefinder with an absolute error of less than [+ or -] one metre for ranges up to 1200 metres (undetectable by image intensifiers) and a ballistic calculator with a sensor suite including air and weapon temperature, air pressure, angle of sight and canting, data from which provide the angle of elevation.

Buster rocket: get it off your shoulder!

Away from its American customers, the company equips the Israel Defense Force's new HS Precision .338 2000 series heavy tactical rifles with a Mk 4 LR/T x6.5 to x20 day sight. These weapons are also equipped with an Omnitech Partners AN/PVS-27 Magnum clip-on night sight (see below).

A clear sight for rifles; Combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have been characterised by infantry troops performing close quarter battle, shooting at ranges typically between ten and 50 metres--with shots at over 100 metres a rarity, according to recent United States Marine Corps after-action reports. At the same time, these troops still need to be able to engage targets in excess of these ranges

This will house a red-dot day sight for the weapon and also a night sight.

Scoring a bull's eye in a blur

These include a lightweight day sight, a thermal day sight, a close quarter battle sight, an under-barrel grenade launcher sight and laser rangefinder and a commander's target location system.

Digital warriors: many armies have opted for the incremental deployment of soldier system technologies to meet the immediate needs of ongoing combat operations. In an unusual twist of events, France appears to be leading the pack in terms of both calendar and deployed capabilities with its Felin

It is equipped with a 1P3-9 day sight and a TPN-3 (or TPN-3-42) night sight, which are mounted in the roof of the turret.

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