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It's called job security, lol.It’s worth so much because the warranty claims will never stop.
It’s worth so much because the warranty claims will never stop.
Yep good company and always gave great discounts and took care of military guysWow, congrats to Vortex.
Glad to see they won, been hoping this would come to civvy market in some form.
Yes, and they have a "new" AMG team working on the civilian items so I am hoping we see something new from AMG in 2023Interesting that they say in the comments this is where the AMG team has been tied up all this time.
Agreed, there is really no quick nickname for this one, I guess "Squad Weapon Sight" is probably going to be it.Another thing that impresses me about this new optic which has without question the worst freaking acronym ever (NGSW-FC) is its modularity.
I wonder how many military personnel lamented and argued over the "color" of the scopeSetting up the base unit as a conventional optic with a screen, power supply, and attachment ports is a stroke of genius. Vortex is right, the electronics technology is likely to continue to change and improve a great deal over the life of conventional parts of the optic. Being able to easily keep up with that as well as swap out different mission specific components is a great idea. It also strikes me as a very non-military type idea. It often seems to me that many .gov products seemed to be designed more with the needs of the manufacturer and it's stockholders in mind than those of the soldier.
That is interesting, also interesting that Vortex is Veteran owned so they are certainly not averse to the military. I don't think it was ever "on purpose" and I think Vortex is very excited about this military contract and has been trying for some time.I'll share a little story with you guys. A few years back, probably around the time of the start of the Vortex NGSW-FC-abc-123-#@%*^2 project, I was on the floor of Shot Show not far from the little ballroom annex where Vortex has it's small LE / Mil display (It has a separate, gigantic display in one of the main halls for all the other products). This smaller ballroom has the coolest stuff though and also hosts many of the other companies most familiar to the SH crowd such as Nightforce, AI, B&T, GA precision, and U.S. Optics (though I think they since moved). I don't remember exactly who I was waiting to talk too but as I did I overheard some very loud, very young, uniformed .mil types complaining to each other about Vortex. They had specifically been assigned some task relating to determining the feasibility of sourcing something from Vortex and were surprised and unsatisfied with the lack of any preferential treatment they were receiving from the company. From what I gathered, they were used to quite speedy and complete service when dealing with potential suppliers. Vortex didn't seem to constantly lobbying them itself. Worse, they weren't even dropping everything to meet and make their life easy even when directly contacted. Instead of pouring over their paperwork and writing up proposals on how its products could fill their needs, Vortex seemed to be handing the .mil guys the Vortex brochures and simply asking if they wanted to place any orders. So.... basically Vortex was not inclined to hire someone to do their job for them. They found this inconvenient as there were many things they would rather do in fabulous Las Vegas than wait here for their appointment with an optic company that seemed more interested in it's core hunting customers than in them. Having already had my yearly visit to Trijicon where no one who knows anything is ever available and I am proffered the card of someone only tangentially related to Trijicon who will never respond to any query I might have, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing my own experience mirrored in another.
I think of the AMG team like the group my father used to work for - Lockheed's Skunkworks. My dad was hand picked by Kelly Johnson in the early 50's and spent his entire career with them until his retirement even though he went through some rough seasons (especially when Ben Rich took over - my dad did not like him at all). My dad passed in 2005 but a year before my sister and I did several video interviews with him and I still love watching those and hearing all his stories about his time with the Skunkworks. Vortex now has their own hand picked AMG team working for .mil and another now working on civilian products - this can only mean good news for future products and technologies to trickle down to us lowly civviesI also found the inside information on Vortex enlightening. Obviously, whoever drew up those folks assignments eventually got what he or she wanted, and it looks like a pretty interesting product to me.