Night Vision L3 LWTS on my KAC SBR

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Here is my L3 LWTS on my KAC SBR 11.5". The LWTS is an amazing unit, the image is phenomenal. Thanks to Jim Santana at SPI!! My iPhone pic does not do the LWTS justice.
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This is a awesome photo sir! Just beautiful.

Did you get your free book with the purchase? "How to shoot like a Navy Seal" This is the scope that Coronado Seal Sniper instructors use!
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the blond looks great-Segal, not so much !!!!!!!!

The LWTS is outstanding. By far the clearest view yet. One of the posters asked about clarity. Best clarity is as a stand alone. Then I get great clarity up to 4/6 power depending on the optic it is in front of. The ACOG is the one I use the most but the eotech works well also. My Leupold Mark 8 CQBSS works well up to 6 power with no need for Illumination. There is a definite need for interface hoods and they do not come with the initial package. Otherwise you do get splashback from the LWTS. and it is clearly visible.
 
Unfortunately L3 doesnt sell any accessories for the LWTS, they also do not sell accessories to dealers.. they only send/ship them to .mil, in fact they wont even quote unless your directly from .gov or .mil..
civilians are out of luck if they want accessories for this item. This sux but at least they are letting us sell their scopes to regular folks now! Just recently this scope was .mil only.
 
One of our California Highway Patrol customers sent us a nice photo of his three dollar solution for scope2scope hood... LOL... take a look... rifle1.JPG

Autozone!! hhaahaahh
 
the blond looks great-Segal, not so much !!!!!!!!

The LWTS is outstanding. By far the clearest view yet. One of the posters asked about clarity. Best clarity is as a stand alone. Then I get great clarity up to 4/6 power depending on the optic it is in front of. The ACOG is the one I use the most but the eotech works well also. My Leupold Mark 8 CQBSS works well up to 6 power with no need for Illumination. There is a definite need for interface hoods and they do not come with the initial package. Otherwise you do get splashback from the LWTS. and it is clearly visible.

Curious as to why you would say that your CQBSS works well up to 6x with no need for "Illumination".
 
Given L3's lack of any real interest in the civilian market when it comes to the LWTS, what would that mean for support if the optic should fail. I know they are supposed to be tough optics, which is great and part of the reason I'm close to pulling the trigger on one. Any idea what, if any, support would be available for the unit for us mere civilians should something go wrong?
 
Given L3's lack of any real interest in the civilian market when it comes to the LWTS, what would that mean for support if the optic should fail. I know they are supposed to be tough optics, which is great and part of the reason I'm close to pulling the trigger on one. Any idea what, if any, support would be available for the unit for us mere civilians should something go wrong?


I tried to purchase an L3 LTWS with the DRS microbolometer for the last two years after I first got my hand's on one at the Shot Show in the L3 booth, however after waiting and waiting and waiting and a no show, I cancelled the order, and glad that I did.

L3 has virtually no civilian customer support and does not seem to care about the consumer market with no distribution or service network setup to deal with civvies.

FLIR GS is the direct opposite and goes above and beyond the call of duty in assisting civilian customers with excellent outstanding customer support.

In fact, FLIR GS is currently working now on designing new digital reticules for the T-70/T-75 scopes as a new software upgrade as a direct result of civilian customer feedback. That says allot in my book and is the reason I have spent $75K on FLIR GS equipment to help manage our properties for the next ten years or more...

FLIR GS is also designing more sub-1X unity magnification options to improve the huge FOV the T-70 series provides at less than 1X, something no other thermal scope on the market has. When I am out in the middle of the swamps on a pitch dark night, max FOV is my biggest asset and my best friend...

225 Yard Coyote with FLIR T-70 compressed for net:

http://www.phossil.com/thom/SIG 716 Precision/225 Yard Coyote/SIG 716P 225 Yard Coyote.wmv

Another 225 yards coyote compressed for net:

http://www.phossil.com/thom/SIG 716 Precision/Another 225 Yard Dog/Another 225 yard Coyote.wmv

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Given L3's lack of any real interest in the civilian market when it comes to the LWTS, what would that mean for support if the optic should fail. I know they are supposed to be tough optics, which is great and part of the reason I'm close to pulling the trigger on one. Any idea what, if any, support would be available for the unit for us mere civilians should something go wrong?
@cake5150 regarding warranty/support and repair issues:

You cannot deal with L3 directly, you need to go through SPI corp for assistance, if the optic or detector fails you goto SPI and we will get it taken care of, We assist you and L3 assists us!


We are in the process of building the VIDEO OUT cables for the L3 LWTS, we will be sole source for this item...we should have them built soon, so people can buy them from us even if they did not purchase an L3 from us directly,

We are sorry the offer of a free video cable has expired. We do have video cables in stock for purchase. If you purchased an LWTS from SPI we will however offer a discount price on the video output cable. Contact us for details.
 
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