Raytheon ELCAN Optical Technologies, also simply ELCAN (
Ernest Leitz CANada),
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(German), retrieved 1 November 2011 is a Canadian optics and electronics
manufacturing company
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owned by American defense contractor
Raytheon, currently based in
Midland, Ontario
Midland is a town located on Georgian Bay in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Huronia/Wendat region of Central Ontario.
Located at the southern end of Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands, Midland is the economic centre of the region, ...
. ELCAN produces
optical devices geared towards both civilian and military markets, and their products are sold through Armament Technology Inc. based in
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348,634 people in its urban area. The ...
and associated channel of dealers.
Products
ELCAN is perhaps best known for making the
prism
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* Prism (optics), a transparent optical component with flat surfaces that refract light
* Prism (geometry), a kind of polyhedron
Prism may also refer to:
Science and mathematics
* Prism (geology), a type of sedimentary ...
atic
C79 optical sight
The C79 Optical sight is a small arms telescopic sight. Elcan names it as the SpecterOS3.4x, but in Canadian service, it is typically referred to as the C79 or the C79A2. A variant, the M145 Machine Gun Optic is in use by the US military. It is 3. ...
that is widely used on the
Diemaco C7,
FN MINIMI,
FN MAG
The FN MAG is a Belgian 7.62 mm general-purpose machine gun, designed in the early 1950s at Fabrique Nationale (FN) by Ernest Vervier. It has been used by more than 80 countries and it has been made under licence in several countries, inc ...
and
CZ-805 BREN
The CZ 805 BREN is a gas-operated modular assault rifle designed and manufactured by Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod. The modular design enables users to change the calibre of the weapon to 5.56×45mm NATO or 7.62×39mm intermediate cartridges by ...
families of
firearm
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The first firearms originated in 10th-century China, when bamboo tubes ...
s. The 3.4×28 C79 is not designed as a
sniper
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sight ''
per se
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* ''per se'', a Latin phrase meaning "by itself" or "in itself".
* Illegal ''per se'', the legal usage in criminal and antitrust law
* Negligence ''per se'', legal use in tort law
*Per Se (restaurant)
Per Se is a New Ameri ...
'', but is rather intended to be mounted on a variety of
service rifle
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s used by regular infantrymen as well as
designated marksmen
A designated marksman (DM), squad advanced marksman (AD) or squad designated marksman (SDM) is a military marksman role in an infantry squad. The term ''sniper'' was used in Soviet doctrine although the soldiers using the Dragunov SVD were the f ...
.
The M145 Machine Gun Optic is a variant of the C79, which is different to the standard version in that ballistic compensation is in the
reticle rather than in the mount. Reticle illumination is by a battery-powered
LED
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with eleven brightness settings. It is used by the US military for its
M249
The M249 light machine gun (LMG), also known as the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), which continues to be the manufacturer's designation, and formally written as Light Machine Gun, 5.56 mm, M249, is the American adaptation of the Belgian F ...
s and
M240s.
ELCAN currently manufactures the "Specter" line of combat optics in a variety of configurations. The Specter 4× Optical Sight, DR 1.5×/6×, DR 1x/4× and TR 1/3/9 are available with a
BDC reticle for the
5.56×45mm NATO
The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO, but often pronounced "five-five-six") is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal. It consists of the SS109, L110, and ...
or the
7.62×51mm NATO
The 7.62×51mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 7.62 NATO) is a rimless, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It is a standard for small arms among NATO countries.
First developed in the 1950s, the cartridge had first been introduced in U.S. service fo ...
.
See also
*
Aimpoint AB
*
Trijicon
*
EOTech
EOTECH is an American company that designs, manufactures, and markets electro-optic and night vision products and systems. The company is headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan. They produce holographic weapon sights for small arms that have bee ...
*
ITL MARS
External links
*
Armament Technology Incorporated distributor
References
Leica Camera
Raytheon Company
Firearm sights
Firearm manufacturers of Canada
Electronics companies of Canada
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