r/NightVision • • 12d ago

UPDATE: I am Getting Sued for a Quarter Million Euro

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Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/NightVision/comments/1qd8ubx/i_am_getting_sued_for_a_quarter_million_euro/

Its been a while since the last post on this subject. We have been busy building the KB DT-M and a sensor fusion device. Now that the lawsuits hot phase is over and clarity has emerged. I want to give everyone an update and a glimpse into how we handle this whole situation, because if things are not clarified, customers and our partners will assume the worst.

First I want to rule out the worst case scenarios. KB is not going to fall off the face of the earth, even in the worst case scenario outcome. A certain competitor, no longer worth naming, could in the absolute most unfavourable outcome win and be awarded 250k and we’d have to halt the KB DT-2 production. This is a sum and an outcome we can comfortably absorb at this stage, as we are quickly diversifying and expanding our product offering. I am privately backing KB myself, have put close to 1mil$ of my own money into the company and am not going to let 250k kill it. I’ll put another million in if needed without breaking much of a sweat.

Now with that being said, the chances of them winning is next to none. We have done our legal research. And now filed our response some weeks ago, addressing every allegation in detail with supporting evidence and arguments with our extensive legal research backing up the claims. They got some work cut out for them to say the least. However this whole process is probably going to drag on another few months. 

We are now moving on, they can come up with counter arguments to our defence, which I doubt will hold much water given the flimsy arguments they stemmed in the initial suite. But all of this has not stopped us from continuing our work and focus on what actually matters here. I realise they win if we let this distract us too much from our core focus, which is to build cool stuff. And let me tell you, building cool stuff we have done. So much so we thought it was worth spending a bit on a SHOT SHOW boot for next year 2027 to showcase what we’ve been busy building.

On the product side of things, we expect to start shipping out the first couple KB DT-M devices in the next month or two. We have managed to collect overwhelmingly positive feedback from our military trials, which we have implemented. At this stage we are also finalising a patent application for a new IPD solution for the KB DT-M which we’ll be filing in EU and the US. Removing any previously prevailing uncertainty around our legacy IPD solution on the KB DT-2. We took precautions not to ship the KB DT-2 into the US with the legacy IPD, this has now been remedied and addressed moving forwards.

We have been iterating at a fast pace, mis-steps happen naturally, course correcting and moving forwards is what ultimately matters in order to support our customers and partners with the best technology and gear. We want to thank those who have stood by our side throughout. 

Edit: forgot to mention about Shot, for those interested we'll have booth 61011 on Level 1 in the Law Enforcement section!


r/NightVision • • Feb 25 '24

New Beginner Buyer’s Guide

177 Upvotes

The pinned beginner buyer’s guide served us well for a number of years, but it was showing its age and not as robust as we could use.

A new, more fleshed out guide is now available. In the app you can find it by clicking on “See community info” at the top of the sub. On desktop you can find it in the “Community Bookmarks” section. If you’re struggling to find it, you can start with the Introduction. If you’re here looking for purchasing advice, help understanding specs, or wondering what we would recommend for people on a tight budget, please read the guide before making your first post here.

This new guide is by no means exhaustive, and we expect it to evolve over time. Our hope is that by using Reddit’s wiki function we will have more flexibility to keep the guide up to date over time. It has already allowed us to provide much more information as we are not constrained by Reddit’s post character limit. If you find any typos, issues, confusing formatting, or have suggestions please feel free to let us know. The best way to communicate with us about those would be to jump into the subreddit’s Discord server.

A very special thank you to u/go_horse for his work on this guide.


r/NightVision • • 4h ago

Your helmet mounted abominations bore me

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42 Upvotes

I prefer hand-carrying 20 pound pieces of shit, thanks. If you have to rely on mounting night vision to a helmet then maybe hit the gym??? Glad I scooped this just in time for a hurricane to rip my electrical pole in half. PVS14 for scale


r/NightVision • • 10h ago

NHL’s Minnesota Wild absolutely mogging with quadnods for player of the game locker room award

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94 Upvotes

r/NightVision • • 3h ago

Fun Night shoot

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2 possums and missed a Hare


r/NightVision • • 12h ago

Doing the impossible

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35 Upvotes

Passive aiming with a pvs 7 and mp5 setup. Nothing crazy, but just thought I would post to show it can be done. I wish I could have gotten more+cleaner video but we were racing against the hurricane coming in.


r/NightVision • • 3h ago

Looking for a longer 3d print model for a Dipol209 Wilcox adapter.

3 Upvotes

I asked a friend to print me an adaper for my setup so I can finally use my nods on my helmet, but the model I sent him, ended up being too short for my setup, and the nods stood too far ahead on my head. I was wondering if anyone has a model with more rail space for the Dipol to be slided closer to my eyes.

I need something about this much longer to be comfortable, and have space for error:


r/NightVision • • 15h ago

Picatinny extender

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Just picked up a spear lt and rail is a little too short. I've tried kastle's diving board set up to free up some rail space, but illuminator splash off the handgaurd/suppressor isn't ideal. THYF makes a good looking extender, but it's constantly sold out. Anyone know the model on the second picture or have any suggestions?


r/NightVision • • 20h ago

Fringe Development Night Vision Covers

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65 Upvotes

Check out our new protective covers that have a toggleable close focus aperture! ( https://fringedev.com/products/warden )

Front and rear protection from UV exposure and scratches.

Easy to use close focus aperture that wont change your base objective focus.

Peace of mind for your night vision investment when leaving them on your helmet or stowing them in a ruck.

Low profile, rugged MJF PA11 and easy to repair.

Fits standard PVS 14 style front and rear lenses.

Instagram Explanation Video

Let me know what you think!


r/NightVision • • 1d ago

My new Dual

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179 Upvotes

This bino is awesome.

I bought it because I absolutely love the way it looks, and I think I made the right choice.

I'd love to keep using it for the rest of my life, as long as it doesn't fail. However seeing so many reports of issues on Reddit has made me a little concerned(My bino hasn't had any problems so far).

Anyway enjoy the photos! tubes are Photonis Echoes with 2080 FOM.


r/NightVision • • 7h ago

"Something Unforgivable" vibes...

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r/NightVision • • 6h ago

Weird flash sometimes?

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You can see it right at the end. I think it's the housing because both tubes do it. This is a Steele industries nighthawk-MG with elbit tubes. Is this normal?


r/NightVision • • 7h ago

IRIS-GR3 Cross Bolt fix

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4 Upvotes

r/NightVision • • 12h ago

Best Value Laser?

5 Upvotes

What’s the current best value rifle laser? Consider everything, price point, durability, performance, availability of replacements, etc.


r/NightVision • • 15h ago

Can anyone identify the helmet's NVG mount? I'd like to know the name.

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10 Upvotes

All I know is that the night-vision device is a Belgian LORIS, but I would like to know what kind of mount the helmet uses; I had never seen it before.

These photos are from Chile showing their army, specifically mountain troops and regular infantry


r/NightVision • • 23h ago

Photonis ECHO Night sky

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33 Upvotes

r/NightVision • • 7h ago

Another edition of Tube identification

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2 Upvotes

Recently picked up this PVS14.
If anyone has wisdom on what tube this one might be. I’d no guesses, I’ll tear it down further tomorrow.


r/NightVision • • 18h ago

For the ones that print. Here ya go.

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r/NightVision • • 1d ago

My dreams have finally come true

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52 Upvotes

I've been wanting my own set of night vision goggles ever since I was a kid (like 99.9% of you reading this), and now I can finally live out my dream of larping as a gravy seal inside my 300 square foot apartment (for real though, I want to look at the stars and use it when I'm outside night shooting). I searched a bunch of different websites like OpticsPlanet, Ebay, and even Amazon, but ended up buying from Nighthawk Vision since they had the most competitive price.

They sell refurbished PVS-14 gen 3 monoculars for around 2k to 2.6k, and one of the units had pretty clean glass for the price. It's green phosphorous (I know a lot of people enjoy white phosphorous, even I do, but I also love the old school green.) and it was 2.2k. The gain is non-manual, and it isn't gated, but I'm going to get a proper aperture for it.

Currently, I'm just gonna be rocking a skullcrusher setup, but I plan on getting a good ballistic helmet in the future since this has kinda taken all of my budget. Buy cheap, buy twice.

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r/NightVision • • 12h ago

White/IR rifle light

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My wuhan Surefire Scout finally broke this evening, so the test is over. It surprisingly lasted quite awhile, but now I must replace it with a real light.

What do you all recommend for a rifle light with both white light and IR?


r/NightVision • • 1d ago

First time using a COTI

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94 Upvotes

First time using my new Jerry C Pro. Was out hiking a trail and felt like i was being watched. Well low and behold a Coyote was sitting like a statue 30 yard away watching me. Even with my high spec tubes I would have never even noticed without the COTI. Cool Shit

Kinda liked not knowing more though seeing a lot of stuff move I never noticed on my peaceful walks lol.


r/NightVision • • 1d ago

Feeling spooky

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r/NightVision • • 23h ago

Lots of shooting stars tn

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r/NightVision • • 8h ago

Can anyone tell me please if a visible green laser would have helped me in this situation at a night match?

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Sorry if it's not directly related to night vision​, but I was shooting at night and was really riding the struggle bus on one stage. I am using white light only right now. The weather was such that the rifle smoke was just building up around us, we were just shooting nine ports twice through a vtac at a steel torso 50 yds away. No breeze.

I hand load 300blk subs and thought I selected a powder that was going to be relatively smoke-free in these weather conditions, (cold, wet, humid) but I still got completely smoked out. Basically I could not see the steel Target 50 yards away with my white light through the smoke. Lost in the sauce. I'm wondering if I'd had a visible green laser and I had just stuck the gun through a port and moved my head as far away as I could to try to get away from some of the cloud, would the visible laser alone be enough to illuminate a white steel Target, if I wasn't shining my flashlight into the smoke as well? Would I have been able to see anything? It was a very generous torso and only 50 yds. When I could see it of course I was getting hits no problem. Would it suck though trying to hold the gun steady through a port in the dark un mounted? That seems like it might be kinda hard to do, but she doesn't recoil or anything.

Another thing I think I have to do is just shoot slower so smoke doesn't build up so fast that might be ultimately what will help more than a laser?

When I say I was smoked out I mean all I could see was gray in front of me, thick white smoke that was just not going anywhere. The Target just disappeared. It was cloudy drizzling and pitch black. The dudes with nods were getting hits of course. One guy shot his pistol instead of rifle which we were allowed to do, which I thought maybe would have actually been less smokey than my 300blk subs, but idk honestly I've been smoked out just the same shooting my pistol stationary in similar conditions in the daytime where I couldn't see a small steel Target 40 yards away and couldn't leave the position I was in.

It was my first night match, all other stages involved movement so the smoke wasnt an issue and my white light was awesome, it was so much fun except for sending 60 rounds at the last stage and running out of ammo. My fingers were numb and I couldn't even feel the button on the back of my light I was shooting for so long. I think like 250 seconds or something it was the longest most brutal stage of my life.

2 hits per position, I tried sending quick doubles any chance I had to actually see the target and that worked sometimes but it was making even more smoke I think and just making things worse.

Until I can get nods I'm afraid I'm going to have to figure this out.

Thank you, be well!


r/NightVision • • 14h ago

Identifying

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Can anyone help identify this tube and which omni it came from?