NVD’s Boresighted Night Sight (BNS) may be the most reliable and easiest to use night vision weaponsighting system ever fielded. Like the Universal Night Sight™, the BNS also 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 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 BNS does not require any boresighting and once mounted the daysight 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 dayscope). 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 dayscope. The magnification is provided by the dayscope, which typically has much smaller optics than those associated with normal 4X or 6X night vision weaponsights. This means there is no loss in system gain or typical f/number loss associated with large optics. Variable magnification dayscopes can actually zoom in (up to 12X) and still retain the same gain (image brightness) with only a slight loss in resolution.

The BNS is lightweight, rugged and adaptable to almost any weapon 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) rifles. It has a very fast f/1.12 catadioptic lens and a 40mm output window (eyepiece).

BNS - Boresighted Night Sight

Specifications
System
Field of View 13˚
Magnification one power (1X)
Focus Range 10mm to infinity
Operation Time 40 hours at 70˚F
Reticle Adj. Step Size 0.2 mil
Boresight Accuracy within 1 MOA
Power Supply 2 AA Batteries
Weight 1.9 lbs
Boresight Repeatability within 0.5 MOA
Dayscope Magnification 1 to 12 Power
Boresight Adjustment None required
Detection
Detect a Vehicle
Starlight 2346 meters
1/4 Moonlight 3012 meters
Detect a Man
Starlight 998 meters
1/4 Moonlight 1273 meters
Boresight Characteristics
Accuracy Within 1 MOA
Retention Permanent
Adjustments None Required
Repeatability Within 1/2 MOA

Click here to view a video of the AN/PVS-22 Universal Night Sight mounted on the Remington M24-A2 Sniper Rifle. Produced by American Rifleman Television.

Each unit comes with an Operator’s Manual, Soft Carry Case, ARMS Weaver (Picatinny) Rail Mount,
Flip Up Lens Caps, Batteries and a Lens Cleaning Kit.

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Specifications
System Continued
Boresight Retention Permanent
Length 7.08”
Max. Height Above Rail 2.95”
Optical
Objective Lens Focal Length 68mm
Objective Lens f/number f/1.12
Operational
Controls ON/OFF/Gain
& Objective Focus
Pricing and Tube Specifications
Tube Specifications NVD-BNS-P+ NVD-BNS-P NVD-BNS-P-
Tube Type Gen 3, Pinnacle Gen 3, Pinnacle Gen 3, Pinnacle
Power Supply
Gated
Gated
Gated
Gain Control
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photocathode Response
2000 min
1750 min
1350 min
Signal to Noise Ratio
22.0 min
19.0 min
16.0 min
EBI
2.5 max
4.5 max
6.5 max
Resolution
64 lp/mm min
64 lp/mm min
57 lp/mm min
Retail Price
$7495.00
$7195.00
$6995.00

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