Aimpoint released the new COMPM5b which incorporates Bullet Drop Compensation. This is accomplished via interchangeable turrets for various ammunition. These can be tailor made for specific ammunition. The red dot sight also offers wind or lead compensation adjustment.
Other than that, it’s a standard 2 MOA Aimpoint; tough as nails and a 5 year battery life for a AAA battery for setting 7 and over 10 years on position 1-4 (10 red dot intensity adjustment settings including 2 night vision positions).
Good to see Aim Point still coming out with new stuff.
I’ve never had a problem with their earlier models. They’re very rugged and nearly E-1/O-1 proof.
How user-friendly are the dials?
I’m going to presume that it doesn’t have a zero stop, you just have to turn them back to the index point.
When I saw the picture and read the specs I was totally in.
Just sad that there are only 2 NV options. Hope they will release another Variant, including the 4 NV options the T-Series Offers.
I read the spec sheet and it stated NVD settings were positions 1 to 4.
Out of curiosity why wouldn’t/couldn’t they incorporate the correction into the reticle? The multi-dot configurations on EOTech and other sights at least give some visual references for drop that can be doped on a range.
Also, dialing a wind hold on a red dot optic does not seem like something that comes up often, if ever, frankly. And then there is the zero stop issue as mentioned above.
I’m not an Aimpoint hater, I just really don’t understand this. If someone else does, please enlighten me.
The technology that aimpoint uses to project the dot is completely different from eotech so they can’t as easily change the reticle. Aimpoint built their brand around a simple red dot that is always on if you changed the batter that last year or not. It would take a lot for them to move away from that and into the market space that EOTech has.
Thanks. I now get why they aren’t offering a dot pattern, but I still scratch my head at dialing for a red dot.
Probably reduced battery life due to utilizing multiple micro LED versus the single micro LED along with the difficulty of aligning the projection in a perfect vertical alignment. A lot of other companies with red dots will use a screen with a regular size LED shining through a hole in the screen to project the dot. When using the screen they can cut the holes so the dot projection aligns to create a holdover. Obviously the negative of a regular size LED is the wasted light and the severely reduced constant on battery life.
Yeah, that makes sense. Losing the forever on feature would take away one of the top features.
I don’t think that checks out. The primary arms holosun sight that’s a red dot with a reticle gets something like 50k hours, far more than the compm* models.
Not nearly as rugged for sure, but I’m sure aimpoint could do one that was.