NVD’s PVS-22 or Boresighted Night Sight (BNS), may be the most reliable and easiest to use night vision clip-on sighting system ever fielded.
Similar the Universal Night Sight™, the PVS-22 incorporates gain control, which allows the user to lower the tube brightness (gain) to compensate for overly bright conditions or to increase the gain under extreme dark conditions. The BNS is the same system as the AN/PVS-22; however it uses a commercial image tube rather than a MIL SPEC tube.
The PVS-22 is a unique night vision system that is small enough to mount in front of any boresighted daytime scope. Scope magnification can range from one to twelve power. The PVS-22 does not require any boresighting and once mounted the day sight provides the aiming point. The BNS maintains boresight despite normal misalignments due to mount position errors and does not alter the sighting centerline (parallax is unchanged from day scope). The BNS also contains no beam splitter or folded optics to go out of alignment.
The BNS is revolutionary when used with a high magnification fixed or variable power day scope. The magnification is provided by the day scope, which typically has much smaller optics than those associated with normal 4X or 6X night vision scopes. This means there is no loss in system gain or typical f/number loss associated with large optics. Variable magnification day scopes can actually zoom in (up to 12X) and still retain the same gain (image brightness) with only a slight loss in resolution.
The PVS-22 is lightweight, rugged and adaptable to almost any platform which will accept a MIL- STD-1913 (Picatinny) rail and has shown the ability to withstand the recoil of 5.56 (223) & 7.62 (308). It has a very fast f/1.15 catadioptric lens and a 40mm output window (eyepiece).
The BNS includes FLIR’s proprietary Shock Mitigation System TM, allowing the unit to be used on platforms up to and including .50 caliber bolt-action.
The BNS utilizes MIL SPEC parts and accessories and is built with either Commercial, MIL GRADE or MIL SPEC ITT/Exelis GEN III Pinnacle Auto Gated image intensifier tubes (click on SPECIFICATIONS tab for more info).
- Mounts in front of a Day Scope
- Manual Gain Control
- Magnification up to 12X
- No Boresighting Needed
- Five Year Warranty
- Commercial Version of the AN/PVS-22 (UNS™)
Includes:
- AA Battery x2
- Soft Carrying Case
- Operator’s Manual
- Flip-Up Lens Cap
- Picatinny Rail Mount
- Light Shroud
- Lens Cleaning Kit
Optional Accessories:
