by78
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PLA Small arms
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Could you please keep irrelevant off-topic banter to a minimum? Thanks.
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Why the visible lasers tho?Special forces night exercise.
by78
General
The footage is likely scripted, as almost all official military images and videos are. Visible laser at night equals cool.
looks like they use the multi-purpose NVG for regular tasks and a gun mounted scope for fighting. this is a good combination, you don't need a good NVG for just walking, and if you come into contact with enemy you can simply use the gun mounted NVG to scan your surroundings.
Wouldn't it be easier to scan for enemies using helmet mounted NVGs? Just seems like overkill having an IR laser for passive aiming and a heavy night vision scope.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Well a couple issues come in. First is the NVG zero returnable? Does the NVG mount bring it to zero every time you mount it on the weapon? Generally speaking this is a no. Even on the best mounting systems.
Next is Parallax. The sight is mounted fairly high off the barrel so if you sight in to take a shot the sight might look right the bullet might hit dirt.
It's not an NVG it's a thermal scop
I think that those are 7.62x51. Look bigger and the walls are almost straight while 5.8 is more tapered. Also the bullet in the papper box looks like dark lacquer.
The bullets are also hollow-point boat-tail just like mk 316 so I would guess it's sniper bullets.
"you don't need a good NVG for just walking"
I'm not sure if you know exactly how dark it gets at night if there are no light sources around you (up to and including the moon). That being said, walking under NVG is a skill that takes some time to develop.
Their setup looks... heavier than it needs to be, honestly.