Company:Aimpoint AB
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| Type | Private (AB) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Headquarters | Malmö, Sweden |
| Products | Electro-optical sights and accessories |
| Website | http://www.aimpoint.com |
Aimpoint AB, also Aimpoint, is a Swedish optics company based in Malmö, Sweden that manufactures red dot sights.
Aimpoint is a contractor for the United States military and supplies the Aimpoint CompM2. Aimpoint products are used by various armed forces, and are marketed to civilians for hunting and sport. The Aimpoint Comp sights, such as the CompM2, are Aimpoint's most popular product line.
Company
Aimpoint is a manufacturing company founded in 1974.[1] Their primary products are reflector (or reflex) sights, specifically the red dot sight sub-type. In 1975 they introduced their first product,[2] the "Aimpoint Electronic" red dot sight, based on a design by Helsingborg engineer John Arne Ingemund Ekstrand.[3] This is the first light emitting diode (LED) "red dot" reflector sight manufactured.[citation needed] Aimpoint currently offers various products based on this technology. In 1997 the US Army awarded Aimpoint the first military contract for a red dot sight, the Aimpoint CompM2, designated the “M68 Close Combat Optic”.[4] [5]
Products
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Aimpoint's red dot sights are marketed to hunters, marksmen, law-enforcement agencies, and military organizations.[6] Nearly 3,000,000 sights are in use world wide today.[citation needed]
Their products use non-magnifying optical collimators (reflector or "reflex" sights) and battery powered LEDs to produce an illuminated red dot reticle. Many sights utilize a mangin mirror system, consisting of a meniscus lens corrector element combined with a semi-reflective mirror (referred to as a "two lens" or "double lens" system by Aimpoint[7]), that compensates for spherical aberration, an error that can cause the dot position to diverge from the sight's optical axis with change in eye position.[8][9][10] Aimpoint markets their sights as "parallax free",[11][citation needed] but this seems to refer to their off-axis spherical aberration correction system at one optimized viewing distance. Aimpoints, like all collimated sight systems, induce some parallax at non-optimized viewing distances.[12][13]
Aimpoint has separate distributors for their military and civilian products in many countries.[14][citation needed]
Aimpoint mounting standards
Many of Aimpoint's red dot sights use proprietary mounting systems. These include:
- Aimpoint Micro: this mounting system has an asymmetric longitudinal profile with an additional recoil stop in the center. It is the most common mounting standard for "micro" format red dots and is used by other optics manufacturers (Blaser, Holosun, Sig Sauer, MAK), as well as many scope mounts.[15]
- Aimpoint Comp: this mounting system is specific to the Aimpoint Comp series professional sights. Some other manufacturers produce mounts for this platform, however the majority of mounting solutions of this type are supplied by Aimpoint.[16][citation needed]
- Aimpoint ACRO: this mounting system is a smaller variant of the Micro standard.[17][citation needed]
See also
References
- ↑ businessweek.com, Bloomberg Business Exchange, Electronic Equipment, Instruments and Components, Aimpoint AB
- ↑ "Aimpoint, History". http://www.aimpoint.com/us/about-aimpoint/history/.
- ↑ Invention intelligence: Volume 11, Inventions Promotion Board, National Research Development Corporation of India - 1976, page 12
- ↑ Trusted by Military and Law Enforcement, archived from the original on 2021-03-25, https://web.archive.org/web/20210326024238/https://aimpoint.us/trusted-by-military-and-law-enforcement/
- ↑ Paul Milenkowic, Stan S. Sudol, USE OF MULTIYEAR CONTRACT SAVES $1.36M, archived from the original on 2011-08-25, https://web.archive.org/web/20110825033137/http://procnet.pica.army.mil/Reference/articles/Archives/multiyear.htm
- ↑ List includes: US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, US Marine Corps, USSOCOM units, the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, French Army, Swedish Army, Danish Army, Finnish Army, Norwegian Army, Latvian Army, Slovenian Army, and Italian Army [citation needed]
- ↑ BATTLESPACE Exhibition News, SHOT SHOW OPENS WITH A BANG! by Julian Nettlefold
- ↑ Note: a setup Aimpoint calls "parallax free"
- ↑ ar15.com, How Aimpoints, EOTechs, And Other Parallax-Free Optics Work
- ↑ Gunsight - Patent 5901452 - general description of a mangin mirror system
- ↑ Aimpoint's parallax-free, double lens system... AFMO.com
- ↑ John Dreyer, Facts and Figures About Dot Sights, Encyclopedia of Bullseye Pistol
- ↑ American rifleman: Volume 93, National Rifle Association of America - THE REFLECTOR SIGHT By JOHN B. BUTLER, page 31
- ↑ Differences between professional and hunting Aimpoints
- ↑ Aimpoint Micro mounts selection
- ↑ Aimpoint Comp M4 review
- ↑ Aimpoint ACRO mounts explained
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