weapon light advancement

NelsonFlashlites · Jun 12, 2005

Weapon lights sure have come a long way since 1980. Here's a link to the BBC's website about the SAS storming the Iranian Embassy. Check out the guy on the left with what I've heard is a Maglight (hard to tell in the picture).

BBC News Online: Iranian Embassy Siege

Santelmo · Jun 13, 2005

Yup, I believe it is. I've got a book about the SAS and their gear/weapons and there's this pic of an operative with a big M@glight mounted on a simple rig (picatinny rails haven't been invented yet by then I think) on his MP5.

ACMarina · Jun 13, 2005

Well, if something went wrong and the MP5 jammed or broke, you could still use the Mag for a club, I guess. That wouldn't work so well with the uber-tiny gunmount lights out these days.

Somewhere on here there were pictures of some lights mounted onto high-powered rifles. Definately not shock-mounted bezels or anything and they worked out okay. Not as clean of a beam, I'm sure. .

KevinL · Jun 13, 2005

juancho did it

I'm just wondering about a USL mounted on an M4.. 3000 lumens on tap, well.. light as a force option, yeah, really, no kidding /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

ABTOMAT · Jun 14, 2005

Weapon lights go back even farther. Hi-Standard had a police shotgun in the '70s with a Kel-Lite mounted on top. I have a Grendelite from the '80s that's supposed to go on submachineguns.

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