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Posted: 6/30/2005 9:24:44 PM EDT
Recently received 2 new ITT PVS14's through a grant (delivery in approximately 3 months). We provide our own patrol rifles and I'm the only one with a night vision capable optic, an Eotech 552. My boss, the Sheriff, has said I can have sole access to one of the optics. My Eotech is mounted directly to my flat-top, question is what kind of mount do I need? I want quality and the department is buying it so might as well get the best. Thanks in advance for your help...LL... |
Ditto. C4 www.gandrtactical.com 
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I recommend the same. The LaRue stuff is the best available. Once you get more systems available, I would also recommend helmet mounts and IR lasers, but not until you can at least field enough NV to equip a small team, as some on NV and some without doesn't work too well. That is one of the really nice things about the PVS-14; it can do both. My real question is how the heck did you find a grant for TWO PVS-14s? I have been looking for NV grants for the last couple years, and aside from EPG's technology transfer program (and we are using that for thermal systems) I haven't found anything like that, and am assembling PVS-14s from DRMO surplus components to get ours on the streets. |
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The Dept. received x amount of money to spend, just had to show it could be used to combat bio terrorism. We actually got some really good stuff. We're a small dept. so the equipment comes in really handy. Almost spent it all on night vision which would have given us 10 sets but there was just too much other equipment the dept. needed....LL...
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Ah, the mythical "Homeland Security Equipment Grants." Our state got hosed on those. We got a fair amount of money, although many smaller states with no real terrorist targets got a bunch more money per capita. Instead of being adminstered as block grants to individual communites, spent on pre-approved categories of gear (in which surveillance systems, like PVS-14s were approved equipment), our state adminstered the grants directly, by purchasing large lots of equipment for shipment to local communities. Almost all of it was fire or EMS-related (you can tell who wound up running the grant administration). We wound up getting physical security stuff for infrastructure target hardening, and the next round we will focus on communications interoperability. I guess my new PVS-14s will have to wait a few more years... |
| The Director of the program for our County says she already knows almost exactly how much money we are going to receive next year. It's already been decides by the higher ups that all of it, fire, rescue, EMS, and LE , is going into a new communications system. Can't say we don't need it, some of our radios are being repaired with used parts now....LL.... |
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