• Thumbnail for Sight (device)
    A sight or sighting device is any device used to assist in precise visual alignment (i.e. aiming) of weapons, surveying instruments, aircraft equipment...
    8 KB (815 words) - 15:36, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Telescopic sight
    A telescopic sight, commonly called a scope informally, is an optical sighting device based on a refracting telescope. It is equipped with some form of...
    86 KB (10,871 words) - 05:04, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iron sights
    Iron sights are a system of physical alignment markers used as a sighting device to assist the accurate aiming of ranged weapons such as firearms, airguns...
    43 KB (5,689 words) - 13:09, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Night-vision device
    vision devices are made to be mounted to firearms. These can be used in conjunction with weapon sights or standalone; some thermal weapon sights have been...
    74 KB (6,716 words) - 07:15, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reflector sight
    alignment with the device to which the sight is attached regardless of the viewer's eye position, removing most of the parallax and other sighting errors found...
    33 KB (4,189 words) - 07:46, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laser sight (firearms)
    sight is a device attached or integral to a firearm to aid target acquisition. Unlike optical and iron sights where the user looks through the device...
    18 KB (1,842 words) - 08:38, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Collimator sight
    collimator sight is a type of optical sight that allows the user looking into it to see an illuminated aiming point aligned with the device the sight is attached...
    4 KB (546 words) - 14:01, 25 June 2024
  • command to line of sight (SACLOS) is a method of missile command guidance. In SACLOS, the operator must continually point a sighting device at the target while...
    7 KB (1,086 words) - 11:03, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thermal weapon sight
    A thermographic weapon sight, thermal imagery scope or thermal weapon sight is a sighting device combining a compact thermographic camera and an aiming...
    4 KB (437 words) - 13:42, 19 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Direct fire
    within the line-of-sight of the user. The firing weapon must have a sighting device and an unobstructed view to the target, which means no obstacles or...
    5 KB (649 words) - 08:02, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colt AR-15
    scopes and sighting devices. Colt AR-15 rifles most often have a barrel threaded in 1⁄2″-28 threads to incorporate the use of a muzzle device such as a...
    28 KB (3,102 words) - 03:07, 20 November 2024
  • sightseeing, a point of interest Sight (device), used to assist aim by guiding the eye Sighting in, adjusting firearms sights Sight, an angular measurement in...
    1 KB (188 words) - 15:29, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for C79 optical sight
    used to secure the base to the receiver. A bore-sighting device is usually used to roughly zero the sight before a first-time shooter takes it to the range...
    13 KB (1,525 words) - 21:26, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight
    SS3 rifle, a variant of the SS2 equipped with ACOG Sight (device) SUSAT, British 4× telescopic sight with tritium-powered illumination similar to the ACOG...
    16 KB (1,569 words) - 01:10, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for ITL MARS
    ITL MARS (redirect from MARS sight)
    aiming reflex sight) is a gun sight that combines two sighting devices, a reflex sight and a laser sight, as well as a backup iron sight. It is designed...
    3 KB (125 words) - 04:17, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Osborne Fire Finder
    Two sighting apertures are mounted above the map on opposite sides of the ring and slide around the arc. The device is used by moving the sights until...
    5 KB (585 words) - 01:33, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for RPG-7
    thermobaric warheads, with a UP-7V sighting device fitted (used in tandem with the standard 2.7× PGO-7 optical sight) to allow the use of extended range...
    46 KB (3,628 words) - 07:49, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parallax
    affects sighting devices of ranged weapons in many ways. On sights fitted on small arms and bows, etc., the perpendicular distance between the sight and the...
    24 KB (3,835 words) - 17:20, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Krummlauf
    by Germany in World War II. The curved barrel included a periscope sighting device for shooting around corners from a safe position. It was produced in...
    3 KB (378 words) - 19:55, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Device driver
    context of an operating system, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer...
    29 KB (2,876 words) - 15:40, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for AN/PVS-17
    AN/PVS-17 (category Armoured fighting vehicle vision and sighting equipment)
    The AN/PVS-17 Miniature Night Sight (MNS) is a compact, lightweight and high performance night vision weapon sight. It is in wide use by the US Army Special...
    6 KB (452 words) - 23:18, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Walther P99
    MIL-STD-1913 (Picatinny) rail for attaching tactical lights and laser sighting devices. Many of the alterations found in the P99 RAD variant were applied...
    39 KB (3,945 words) - 19:16, 16 October 2024
  • 729,000 viewers. 2.20, including devices. 2.10, including devices. 2.24, including devices. "Married at First Sight UK: Afters" returned for Series 7...
    52 KB (1,828 words) - 16:31, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Compass
    Compass (category Magnetic devices)
    A compass is a device that shows the cardinal directions used for navigation and geographic orientation. It commonly consists of a magnetized needle or...
    44 KB (5,954 words) - 09:01, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mistral (missile)
    with "friend or foe" interrogator, power source and tripod with its sighting devices. It differs from MANPADS systems in that it is necessarily fired from...
    23 KB (1,961 words) - 07:37, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for M16 rifle
    M16 series rear sight, front sight and sighting in targets designs were modified over time and non-iron sight (optical) aiming devices and new service...
    247 KB (24,641 words) - 02:00, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Helmet-mounted display
    A helmet-mounted display (HMD) is a headworn device that uses displays and optics to project imagery and/or symbology to the eyes. It provides visual information...
    41 KB (4,564 words) - 10:01, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zielgerät 1229
    Zielgerät 1229 (category Firearm sights)
    cumbersome for attack situations. Successful tests of the infrared sighting device for hand fire arms were made by the Panzergrenadiere during February...
    6 KB (627 words) - 19:49, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Trijicon
    Trijicon (category Firearm sights)
    distributes sighting devices for firearms including pistols, rifles and shotguns. Trijicon specializes in self-luminous optics and night sights, mainly using...
    6 KB (550 words) - 12:59, 3 July 2024
  • A covert listening device, more commonly known as a bug or a wire, is usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone. The use...
    32 KB (3,336 words) - 03:08, 4 November 2024