So… Wilcox finally released a new product into the wild a week or two ago — the new wunderkind BOSS-Xe — a/k/a “How much technology can we possibly cram into a 10-ounce EOTech reflex optic?” — Ballistically Optimized Sighting System - Enhanced with its whimsically nomenclatured “environmentally stable optical bench.”
The BOSS is basically an EOTech EXPS3 with a built-in RAID-Xe — visible and IR lasers and illuminators (yes, plural “illuminators”) — all in just nine glorious ounces!
The concept is fantastic: Merge two critical combat devices into a single device, without sacrificing functionality, while reducing both size and weight, in an age of ever-diminishing rail space. Give it a cool little throw lever that switches retical aim-points between supersonic and subsonic .300 Blackout rounds. Then, make it bombproof, waterproof, and while we’re at it let’s also give it frickin’ Bluetooth and make it part of the ATAK battlespace. And, oh yeah, let’s give it a panic button… because every reflex sight needs a damn panic button!
Hells yeah!
Wilcox must have some really interesting development and engineering meetings where people just blurt out ideas and management shouts “Halleluia! Let’s do it!”
That’s literally the only reason I can think of for putting a ridiculously sensitive angle/cant sensor into an unmagnified reflex site designed for subsonic .300BLK rounds — which apparently cannot be disabled and is specifically designed to flash the red reticle and induce epileptic seizures in people that never had epilepsy.
Yeah, this is how Wilcox gives the world epilepsy.
Weinstein. Trudeau. Flugelbinder. Wilcox?
As you can probably deduct, Wilcox can’t help but Rube Goldberg the absolute fuck out of an otherwise great idea — it’s what they do.
Anywho… as you might imagine, compromises have been made. It’s not chocolate and peanut butter here, that when combined make both already-awesome single things into one even better thing.
Previous attempts at such a device have been made, most notably with the EOLAD and the L3 Abominable Pyramid — neither of which were any good.
[more to come]
The BOSS is basically an EOTech EXPS3 with a built-in RAID-Xe — visible and IR lasers and illuminators (yes, plural “illuminators”) — all in just nine glorious ounces!
The concept is fantastic: Merge two critical combat devices into a single device, without sacrificing functionality, while reducing both size and weight, in an age of ever-diminishing rail space. Give it a cool little throw lever that switches retical aim-points between supersonic and subsonic .300 Blackout rounds. Then, make it bombproof, waterproof, and while we’re at it let’s also give it frickin’ Bluetooth and make it part of the ATAK battlespace. And, oh yeah, let’s give it a panic button… because every reflex sight needs a damn panic button!
Hells yeah!
Wilcox must have some really interesting development and engineering meetings where people just blurt out ideas and management shouts “Halleluia! Let’s do it!”
That’s literally the only reason I can think of for putting a ridiculously sensitive angle/cant sensor into an unmagnified reflex site designed for subsonic .300BLK rounds — which apparently cannot be disabled and is specifically designed to flash the red reticle and induce epileptic seizures in people that never had epilepsy.
Yeah, this is how Wilcox gives the world epilepsy.
Weinstein. Trudeau. Flugelbinder. Wilcox?
As you can probably deduct, Wilcox can’t help but Rube Goldberg the absolute fuck out of an otherwise great idea — it’s what they do.
Anywho… as you might imagine, compromises have been made. It’s not chocolate and peanut butter here, that when combined make both already-awesome single things into one even better thing.
Previous attempts at such a device have been made, most notably with the EOLAD and the L3 Abominable Pyramid — neither of which were any good.
[more to come]
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