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Brite-Strike Tactical Illumination Products has recently started showing off their balls, and not just their tactical balls but their IR/NVG balls as well! Now, we haven’t tried them out yet (hoping to get some soon to T&E) but we want to point out that they’re not, contrary to some of what we’ve heard, not intended to replace NFDDs (Noise Flash Diversionary Devices) like “flashbangsâ€. They are, however, intended to be a easily used, low cost distraction device that can be carried by patrol officers and deputies (or MPs, presumably) without specialized training. They are available in IR for military and LE tactical units.
Touted as small, lightweight, water- and shock-resistant, they “wobble and spin all around†when deployed by rolling or tossing them in a room, and will land light up to backlight your opponent or intruder. Presumably they may also provide a tactical or illumination edge in areas where a standard NFDD could not normally be deployed (like a clan-lab or potential sympathetic detonation environment), or perhaps as a signaling device. There’s a video of them being deployed here, though it probably doesn’t do them much justice. For ourselves, we’d rather see them made with a good strobe function like the Strategos Gladius, but we’re not ones to nay-say without trying something out.
The product bears the NTOA symbol of approval and is sold in lots of five (5). If we get some of ‘em to try out we will let you know most ricky-tick.
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