Army PEO Soldier Displays Multifunction Aiming Light for M17, M18, M4

By Tactical-Life

Last month, the U.S. Army held a “Close Combat Lethality Tech Day” demonstration at the Pentagon. One of the items on display was the new Multifunction Aiming Light, or MFAL, for the M17 and M18 pistols, and the M4 carbine.

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Multifunction Aiming Light

Curtis Brookshire Jr., systems engineer at PEO Soldier, says the MFAL comes with infrared and visible aiming lasers, enabling Soldiers to put shots on target more easily during night and day. The maximum range for the visible and IR beams on the M17 MFAL is 25 meters. The daytime range for the M4 MFAL is up to 200 meters in sunlight. The IR beam reaches 600 meters at night.

Brookshire said PEO Soldier has been working on a number of different MFAL designs over the past several years. He asserts that these new ones stand out because they’re “smaller, lighter and …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life