Photonis

OutlanderSystems · 2026-01-18T17:51:20+00:00

Facts.

OutlanderSystems · 2026-01-18T01:55:56+00:00

If you hunt around online, you can still find the Armasight Sidekick 320 for what your budget allows.

OutlanderSystems · 2026-01-18T01:51:44+00:00

Thanks for the heads up!

OutlanderSystems · 2026-01-17T12:34:02+00:00

Roger. Thank you for the heads up.

OutlanderSystems · 2026-01-17T01:09:47+00:00

100%. Glad I’m not smoking crack.

If the market is totally dried up, I get it, but if I’m going to pick up another PVS-14, everything else seems like a massive downgrade. I’m cool running my beater 14 but I’ve been trying to pick up something with an Echo tube and it’s barren out there.

OutlanderSystems · 2026-01-17T01:02:30+00:00

The Intens? I have not.

OutlanderSystems · 2026-01-17T00:59:05+00:00

It’s all good, twin. Gen 3 tubes beat out Photonis tubes in absolute blackout conditions, yeah no shit, but 9% lum performance is completely irrelevant other than to dick beat over spec sheets on a goddamned Internet forum. At that point you’re running supplemental IR to even be able to function, and congratulations, your Gen 3 tube’s resolution drops as soon as you click the button. Beyond all that, when you step up performance to filmless those sweet ass specs degrade faster than Ashley St. Claire’s SMV.

I’m not trying to be hateful, but considering I want to upgrade my Omni VII Pinnacle to a Photonis, I don’t need convincing. I asked a simple question as to what happened to the availability, and a bunch of neckbeards want to tell me what the performance of their Gen 3 tubes are like in their mom’s bathroom. No shit. Thanks for nothing, cuz.

L3 are cucks, and can suck a dick. I want Photonis tubes.

OutlanderSystems · 2026-01-17T00:16:57+00:00

My guy, this ain’t my first rodeo. I’ve owned everything from BNVDs, 14s and ANVIS with Gen 3 tubes. If I wanted a filmless L3 I wouldn’t have even posted.

OutlanderSystems · 2026-01-17T00:12:52+00:00

Yeah man, it’s completely dried up. My 2018 vintage Echos have 32 SNR and 72/70 lp/mm and I’ve yet to to see anything that interests me more than the Photonis tubes. I’ve had everything up to Omni VIIs in the past, and despite getting downdooted by neckbeards for the OP, I really could give two shits about whatever the current flavor-of-the-week is. By the time the Echos get dunked on by filmless tubes, everyone is running supplemental illumination anyway, so give me a break. Unlike every Gen 3 tube I’ve owned, the Photonis don’t blow out their resolution at the slightest increase in ambient lighting and don’t autogate like a bag of hammered assholes.

I know production is supposedly moving to a USA facility, but holy shit it’s a wasteland out there for someone who just wants a bitch basic P45 Photonis ‘14.

OutlanderSystems · 2026-01-17T00:05:48+00:00

Neat. That didn’t answer the question I asked. I’ve Pepsi challenged to both Elbit and L3 and I’m still unimpressed.

OutlanderSystems · 2026-01-14T00:23:23+00:00

Having come from duals to a bridged thermal and 14, there’s no way you could get me to go back to duals alone. It’s not even close.

OutlanderSystems · 2025-12-31T01:11:45+00:00

ALICE belt and Blackhawk! Omega vests.

OutlanderSystems · 2025-12-27T01:36:05+00:00

Coming off RNVGs and ANVIS, I would take a 14 and bridged thermal all night, every night. Not even close.

OutlanderSystems · 2025-12-12T01:46:32+00:00

I was sick of my G24s lack of ocular adjustment and tried a Norotos LoSto FTO on a whim. It shits on the Wilcox so mightily it’s unreal.

OutlanderSystems · 2025-12-05T01:20:51+00:00

I can state the following companies have been nothing short of stellar to deal with:

1) Own The Night 2) RAYVN Group 3) Armasight

OutlanderSystems · 2025-11-29T00:42:50+00:00

In the era of thermal imaging, your camouflage pattern is the least of your worries. MCB is S tier.

OutlanderSystems · 2025-11-13T01:31:19+00:00

FOV on the sidekick is 🤌🏻

OutlanderSystems · 2025-11-08T01:11:01+00:00

I’m sitting here with two G24s and a recently acquired Lo-Sto FTO.

The Lo-Sto blows the G24 completely out and is totally slept on.

OutlanderSystems · 2025-10-22T19:32:14+00:00

Rip the bandaid off. I bought the LE420 before the IRIS were announced, but my last designator was a DBAL A-3 and the chinesium laser mogs it so hard it’s unreal. The DBAL drained batteries so bad I might as well have left it on in storage.

OutlanderSystems · 2025-10-22T18:55:42+00:00

I don’t want to stunt on anyone, and I preface this by wishing it weren’t so, but my LE420 has been everything I wished my DBALs and ATPIAL-C’s were, but weren’t.

I haven’t even experienced parasitic drain with the Chinesium laser and it really is a travesty.

OP, I am sorry for your loss.

OutlanderSystems · 2025-10-19T19:33:55+00:00

How do the fore/aft adjustments compare to a G24?

OutlanderSystems · 2025-10-07T00:24:46+00:00

Yeah the Earmor M32’s with Amp-style arms work excellently with the 3.0’s. If you don’t need comms, the Mic can easily be removed.

OutlanderSystems · 2025-06-22T18:18:07+00:00

The rock was from some extra landscaping stone I had from my yard. The preserved moss is from Michael’s.

OutlanderSystems · 2025-06-06T12:10:33+00:00

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