October 6th, 2020: Cloud Defensive, an All-American lighting solutions and accessories manufacturer unveils its newest product – the REIN. The REIN (Rail mounted Environmental IllumiNator) is the most powerful, durable, innovative, and complete weapon light system on the market. It features a field serviceable lens, a field-serviceable tail cap and an electrically isolated dual-switching capability for redundancy. It works with all existing (Scout type) light mounts, and it has the world’s first 3rd generation Light Control System (LCS) including a proprietary remote switch with tail-cap integration, oriented precisely for weapon-mounted use. All REIN units ship with a custom made charger and battery as well.
The REIN is Cloud’s sophomore release into the market, following their OWL (Optimized Weapon Light) from late 2018. Much like with the OWL Cloud wanted to introduce an industry leading product (that was made in-house) and redefined what a weapon light should be. With the following specs the REIN will be hard to beat, and even harder to copy:
• MSRP: $314.99 Standard Kit/ $369.99 Complete Kit
• Lumens: 1,400 REIN/ 1,300 REIN Micro
• Candela: 60,000 REIN/ REIN Micro 55,000
• Runtime: 120 mins REIN/ 35 mins REIN Micro
• Battery (included): 18650 REIN/ 18350 REIN Micro
• Weight (complete): 5.29 oz REIN/ 4.97 oz REIN Micro
• Remote LCS switch: Available for both on product page
• Colors variants: Black (available now)/ FDE (available 11/15)
“After 2 ½ (long) years of research, development, and re-investing into our manufacturing process, we are humbled to bring you this carefully crafted weapon-light. Our goal with this product was not to simply offer another weapon mounted light, but to introduce a product that would question why other options have been the standard for so long. The goal of the REIN project was to take the notion of a traditional weapon light and rework that in such a way that we elevate the performance and eliminate the liabilities found in typical systems. To ensure consistency and quality with this level of innovation, we take pride in producing our products in-house. It would have been easier to pick up a catalog and order one from a “white-label” manufacturer, but that’s not why we decided to start this journey. We truly believe in designing a better product, building it ourselves and servicing our customers with a level of performance that is unheard of. We also pride ourselves on the customer service front, maintaining the highest level of availability to our customers. Cloud is here to help. We’re here for you. And we’re just getting started. – Sean McCauley (CEO/ Cloud Defensive).
Effective immediately, the REIN is live and ready for sale. For more information on Cloud Defensive and our products go to www.CloudDefensive.com
Such great Candela and Lumen Specs – but not name of the used LED, which is sad: SureFire does not name the LED too, but the whole professional light industry does with Zebralight, NiteCore, Fenix, EagleTac, Klarus .., so I wished they would have stated which LED was used.
Whats even more sad, is the fact that they do not offer a strobo feature – which is key to many people! If they would change that, and maybe change from the SureFire mounting pattern to some inhouse made swivel mount like with Bobro Engineering or the newer SureFire Pro Lights, it would be “perfect”.
What could be interesting, would be to offer another tailcap ready to be connected to Unity Hot Buttons, Taps or other SureFire connector pressure switches.
Is this a serious comment? A strobe feature?
And the surefire pro mount.. hmm. From what I recall there were several groups of “intended” end users that after field testing went back to a fixed mount because they were experiencing failures.
Call me old school but a momentary light in a fixed mount is still the cats meow.
If this light runs on 18650 can we also run dual CR123 in this body?
There are companies like Oveready that makes a sleeve to allow CR123s to be used in a 18650 body.
No, they mention explicitly on the website that cr123s are not compatible and will void your warranty.
Nothing like some clown posting the names of four or five ch1n3se companies- companies that can use slave labor and rigged business practices to avoid competing with American companies who pay Americans living wages.
What. A. Putz. Haze yourself.
Impressive stuff. Is this product made in USA or China ?
It is all made in the U.S.A., and in-house in their facility. It is mentioned in the press release, they also mention it quite a bit on their social media pages. Been tracking this company for a bit and they have been making some great gear.
After buying an OWL and seeing how well it works, I can’t wait to grab a REIN kit. The directly driven heads on both are an awesome feature that allows you to scale the light output by battery.