BNS PVS-22 Hand Select Day Night Multipurpose Viewer

NVD’s PVS-22 or Bore sighted Night Sight (BNS), may be the most reliable and easiest to use night vision Multipurpose Viewering system ever fielded. Similar the Universal Night Sight™, the PVS-22 incorporates gain control, which allows the user to lower the tube brightness (gain) to compensate for overly bright conditions or to increase the gain under extreme dark conditions. The BNS is the same system as the AN/PVS-22, however it uses a commercial image tube rather than a MIL SPEC tube.

The PVS-22 is a unique night vision system that is small enough to mount in front of any bore sighted daytime Multipurpose Viewer. Multipurpose Viewer magnification can range from one to twelve power. The PVS-22 does not require any bore sighting and once mounted the daysight provides the aiming point. The BNS maintains bore sight despite normal misalignments due to mount position errors and does not alter the sighting centerline (parallax is unchanged from dayMultipurpose Viewer). The BNS also contains no beam splitter or folded optics to go out of alignment.

The BNS is revolutionary when used with a high magnification fixed or variable power dayMultipurpose Viewer. The magnification is provided by the day Multipurpose Viewer, which typically has much smaller optics than those associated with normal 4X or 6X night vision Multipurpose Viewers. This means there is no loss in system gain or typical f/number loss associated with large optics. Variable magnification day Multipurpose Viewers can actually zoom in (up to 12X) and still retain the same gain (image brightness) with only a slight loss in resolution.

The PVS-22 is lightweight, rugged and adaptable to almost any weapon which will accept a MIL- STD-1913 (Picatinny) rail and has shown the ability to withstand the recoil of 5.56 (223) & 7.62 (308) rifles. It has a very fast f/1.12 catadioptic lens and a 40mm output window (eyepiece).

The BNS includes FLIR's proprietary Shock Mitigation System TM, allowing the unit to be used on weapons up to and including .50 caliber bolt-action rifles.

The NVD PVS-22/BNS utilizes MIL SPEC parts and accessories and is built with either Commercial or MIL GRADE ITT/Exelis GEN III Pinnacle Auto Gated image intensifier tubes.