Will a IR illuminator light up fiber optic sight when using night vision?

[Blue72]

If anyone knows it would be greatly appreciated

 

[B y r o n]

If IR is invisible to the naked eye, why do you think it would suddenly be visible via fiber optic sight?

 

[Blue72]

If IR is invisible to the naked eye, why do you think it would suddenly be visible via fiber optic sight?

my question involves using night vision nods

 

[B y r o n]

my question involves using night vision nods

I'm still confused, you're worried about a fiber optic sight being visible if illuminated with an IR and someone wearing night vision goggles? I think if anything is illuminated with IR it will be visible with night vision goggles. I base this on a night vision demo I attended. Nothing visible with IR off but suddenly everything visible when the IR was turned on.

 

[Blue72]

I’m looking to use fiber optic sights while using Nods. I want to know if using a IR illuminator would light up the fiber optic the same way a white pistol light does at night time

 

[Ledzep]

Yeah it will, it's going to bloom so bad as to be unusable, probably.

 

[B y r o n]

I’m looking to use fiber optic sights while using Nods. I want to know if using a IR illuminator would light up the fiber optic the same way a white pistol light does at night time

Instead of fiber optic sights, you might want to look into Tritium sights which will glow at night without light.

 

[Blue72]

Instead of fiber optic sights, you might want to look into Tritium sights which will glow at night without light.

I’m looking to use PVS 14…I have been told tritrium sights are a no go

 

[cas6969]

I was just going to test this as I have all the "fixin's within arms reach, but realized the only IR light I have to shine on it would blow out everything and I'd be lucky to even make out the sight, let alone see if it's "glowing".

 

[Tictacticaltimmy]

Why exactly dont you want to use a red dot?
Or active aiming?

Also what your thinking of will not work well, since you will need the PVS14 focused up close to line up the sights, which will make the target blurry. Unless you have duals and want to focus one near and one far.

 

[Lowdown3]

Tritium sights on a pistol while shooting under NODs are at best a distraction. That being said, a couple of NV classes back we had a guy from VA that had a Beretta 92 with only tritium sights and he seemed to make it work fine with a PVS14 for the pistol portion of class.

I would say definitely don't change your NODs focus, just superimpose the sights on the target, it's not like you need a crisp view of the glowing tritium to shoot.

I run dual illuminated RMRs on pistols and have never had issues, never "too bright" or anything like that.

 

[TheHorta]

Fiber optic sights do NOT work well with NODs and IR illumination (assuming you’re talking about either helmet or weapon-mounted IR light source).

 

[smcfarland]

Red dot at lowest setting or NV setting if it has them works perfectly for passive aiming.