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American civs can get the Elbit and L3 tubes also theirs a gen 3 filmless but I have no clue what that means for life span other than the warranty on the filmed is 10 yrs and unfilmed is 5 yrs. Photonis does have manufacturing in the US and Elbit to my understanding is European. L3 is a US company.

Would lowering the gain negate auto gating? more specifically could auto-gating be avoided or the alternative methods such as resolution reduction be negated by manually lowering gain?

How do i get one

This thing is worth more than any gun I own plus ammo combined

Checked out the vid. Is the comment section for real😂.

Just got my rpnvg with the boomslang 50. Highly impressed with the Field of vision.

Will it fit pvs7?

5k for something not viable for anything other than a range toy or airsoft is ridiculous. Get the 3d printed housings and just build a set for $400 thats better than these, and spend the leftover building a proper kit with quality meds,coms,and other sometimes forgotten items.

I just got an infared monocle that reacts to my flashlights I put one on my rifle and another on my helmet it’s much cheaper than this

I decided not to buy Infiray. US banned them for China supplying Russia them in Ukraine. You won’t be able to get parts as well.

cheap chinese made nightvision

The Manticore-R looks so good! The only thing I wish was that the manual gain was a knob and they kept buttons for the Power and IR

Should I remove the battery when the Manticore is not in use? I've heard that the battery can drain even when the device isn't powered on.

Is L3 and Elbit not available in Canada? I like the Cadex mount with the breakaway feature.

Just bought a pair last week, they come this wednesday! Super excited!

What if you guys just used an overseas reseller to sell your full power units to us civilians? Other companies are doing it

Hello there I was wondering if you could do a comparison of the newer style AGM Wolf- 14 Gen2+ NL 1 compared to the Jerry 14 and then the photonis thank you for taking the time to read this I just found your channel and it’s amazing!!! ……by the way I just subbed 😎👍🤝

Super vidéo ❤

Super vidéo ❤

2 thousand for a pvs 14 wow go InfiRay

6k for non battle ready? That’s shit lol I’d rather get one mono pvs 14 if anything

I can get PVs fifteens for 4500….. maybe five grand tops I would never pay this much

Who makes that retention?

Super video, good job! You all get better with each and every one! Thank you again for the straightforward presentation of instrumented testing results. For your viewers, we'll repeat what we always say, which is everyone's eyes and brains are calibrated differently, therefore at the end of the day (or night), always get the NOD/Tube combination that works best for you, no matter who makes the various components, and at the price point that meets your budget. We're biased; however, we'll just say that we firmly believe that Photonis Tubes, NODS and optics offer the best all-around performance for every possible scenario. And if you get to the point where you need supplemental lighting, as your video illustrates, then turn on a light that other non-Photonis equipped NODS can't see. Finally, does the generation label make a difference? All we can say is the recent draft for the 2025 US Army NEXT proposal for NODS doesn't use the word "Generation" when it comes to night vision image intensifier tubes.

FCK ITAR

This is the budget nod for you.....6 grand......NOT! SMH.

Yall know yall can get real pvs 14s for the same price, and sometimes 500 dollars cheaper? I was expecting to see a sub 2k price with all this 'cheapest nvg' talk. pvs 14s go from anywhere from 2k-2700 right now.

Can the material withstand being shot by an airsoft bb?

It should be mandatory that these are offered in FDE as well!

Hello, where buy this?

What you mean theyre just decent 😭 for 6k the damn thing better be able to bake me a cake on my birthday

Bro looks 31 and 16 all at the same time.

Can you tell me the approximate measured distance between the two tube centers by deciding to mount the RH25 over the left eye / PVS-14 over right? Thank you. This would really help!

Put only switches on the IRIS!!!! No stupid buttons that you have to hold etc. Buttons + gloves = bad time.

wtf 5k? just get a pvs14 monocular dayumm

Are the nocturn industries night vision goggles military grade?

Thank you for the extremely informative review. I’m about to take the NVG leap and these price tags are scary. Definitely going to save the 1,000 and go with nnvt4ag’s. If anyone has had a bad experience with them please let me know.

they really are just "different", i dont really think one is better than the other. Its truly a preference matter. A while ago I got to look through some SOCOM spec L3 UFWP tubes and I was so excited and the first difference right away was obviously the color. It was a pretty dark night, no moon, overcasted, we were 40 miles away from the nearest town at this event and I did see more of that "Black and white" look to them. I have an Omni 8 L3 tube which I have tested along side some pretty high spec elbit and L3 tubes, so I am very confident when I say my Omni 8 tube certainly exceeds minimum DoD specs, especially in gain and SNR - I put my GP omni 8 tube right next to that WP tube and....the image was deff the same in terms of what I could see and not see. Because "white" almost feels like a damn flashlight is shined into my eye...I had to turn the gain down on the WP unit so it wasnt so bright. It wasnt so bright as in "I can see more than my GP tube", it was just the color of the WP tube was to intense to my eyes, that I had to turn down the gain. Its like looking at a website that doesnt have a dark theme at 2 in the morning, you have to turn "night mode" on your phone so its not too much on your eyes. I find with GP, I actually have *less* eye strain and my entire military career...never once got a headache because of my nods. I got headaches from the helmet itself and long term use during operations. I didn't wear it JUST at night...its obviously worn during the day aswell. WIth WP, i saw why people love manual gain. Like I said, I had to turn the gain down again simply just because of the color being more sensitive to my eyes and being more "bright". Not because it had more "gain". With GP? I use ABC on my device. I removed the pigtails off my tubes. I prefer ABC...but with GP. Deff not WP. And, to your point, GP is cheaper so I run GP not because I like it "better", but because it was much more cost effective. Omni 8 tubes when I bought them were about 1200 still in the package. Elbit XLSH tubes were in the 2500+ range. For the price of 1 WP tube, I got 2 GP tubes. If I want a more "WP look"? I just throw a filter on my device. I know LLI has their filters (which I own), but if you really want an actual "WP" look? Get blue filters on ebay. MUCH MUCH more WP looking and actually dont cut down on the light to your eye than purple filters do. As you said, all this comes down to preference. Do I prefer WP? Yes. Do I 'NEED" WP? No. I chased wanted WP tubes so bad until I looked through them, I realized id be spending thousands to change out my tubes...literally for a different color of phosphor...for what? To Be cool? Nah. LOL until the money is there to throw at it...Ill be sticking to my GP Omni 8 tubes for a long, long time.

Oddly, I think the Photonis is outperforming the Elbit tube if you really study the image

No $5000 dollar night vison is Budget. People who are buying these and using them for airsoft are why airsoft is dying . Shooting is not supposed to be this focused on militaria . Shooting in the states used to be about hunting and fun . Now everyone wants to be Sam from Splinter Cell or Snake. Stop ripping people off!

How does the Grec X stack up against the new NVGR Pro by Brown Bear industries?

How are you always demoing subpar spec’d tubes? I’m running 2600 FOM Echos and I’m just a dude lol.

Why don’t they 3D print their housings in Titanium?

just save up. no point in getting a cheaper option.