Red dot sight
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A red dot sight is a common classification for a non-magnifying reflector sight that provides an illuminated red dot to the user as a point of aim. A standard design uses a red light-emitting diode at
View through Tasco ProPoint red dot sight (model PDP2ST) on a Ruger 10/22. Made in Japan for Tasco, the ProPoint 2 was one of the first red dot sight models to become widely popular.
Reflex sights have varying dot viewing angles; that is the maximum angle the operator's eye can be offset from the center-axis of the sight whilst the dot still remains visible.
Left: Aimpoint Acro C2 reflex sight lying on its side. Right: Acro rail on a Picatinny rail riser.
A U.S. Marine looking through an ITL MARS combination red dot and laser sight mounted on his M16A4 MWS rifle during the Second Battle of Fallujah, 2004
Aimpoint
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Aimpoint AB is a Swedish optics company based in Malmö, Sweden that manufactures red dot sights.
Red dot sight
…proper ambient lighting could not be depended on and incandescent light bulbs could drain a battery in a few hours. In 1975, the Swedish optics company Aimpoint AB marketed the first "electronic" red dot sight combining a reflecting curved mirror and a light-emitting diode, based on a design by Helsingborg engineer…
Aimpoint on an AK4
Ak 5D seen here with an Aimpoint red dot sight.
Hunter with Aimpoint Micro H-2 on rifle