I am really interested in the use of thermal optics for night shooting. As we can see from lots of footage in Ukraine, thermal imaging is a really important technology in modern warfare, and IR emissions like lasers and floodlights are far less useful in a peer-on-peer environment than in the low-tech counter-insurgency the US fought in the Middle East for many years. This yeah I ran an AGM Rattler 640 at the Moons Out match, and this is my takeaway from it, and plans for how to do the concept better next year.
Thanks to Nocturne Industries for sponsoring the match!
Some other videos from Moons Out 2026:
Nova Group’s Loadout: https://youtu.be/VAyhmj6dMXs
BrassFacts’ Belt-Fed match run: https://youtu.be/Y3uylxKOpg4
Kit Badger’s Loadout: https://youtu.be/i34LzooHJsc
Ballistic Aviation’s match video: https://youtu.be/2Us4EWEjOgk
C_DOES’ match video: https://youtu.be/1S6esEZryIE
The choices you mention are all either-or technology. Why not one package with multiple functions, that feeds output to a heads-up video display. A display would allow for a cleaner user interface.
It’s not just the passive IR scopes that suffer from button mania and feature overload.
No, I don’t want to switch on Bluetooth every time I hit the black buttons on the dark when I meant to zoom out.
And GPS, wifi, SD card storage, movie modes, compass heading, Z-axis and microwave.
If they’d only make a nice dumb basic model.