American 3.4x Optic - ELCAN SpecterOS 3.4x
The M145 Machine Gun Optic, or MGO, is a variant of ELCAN's SpecterOS 3.4x designed for Canadian Forces (Salute! =D). It was first adopted back in 1989 by the Canadian military, designated as C79 scope, and has been widely equipped on C7 assault rifles, C8 carbines, and C9 light machineguns. (Canadian's M16, M4, M249). The U.S military eventually adopted C79, with some modifications, and designated it as M145.
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| A Candian soldier aiming on C7A2 rifle through C79A2 optic ,via wikipedia |
Again, it's got poorly illustrated by DICE in BF3.
First thing to notice is the distance between the user's eyes and the scope, which results in the messy field of view.
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| Mounting the optic, excerpted from www.elcansightingsystems.com |
The optimal distance, according to ELCAN's manual, would be about 2 3/4 inches.
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| via 3gn.ar15.com |
Secondly, the M145 comes with 2 different reticle styles, one for M4 carbine, and one for machine guns. But in BF3 we have only the one for M4, which DICE ironically said it's designed for M249.
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| M4 |
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| LMG, via www.swfa.com |
Like what happened on ACOG mentioned in the last post, the reticle on M145 got enlarged in BF3 as well, to compensate for visibility.
Russian 3.4x Optic - BelOMO PK-AW
The PK-AW is the latest variant of the classic design from BelOMO, the PK-A. the W here represents weaver, meaning its made to be mounted on firearms with Weaver Rail Mount. It's been out there for more than a few decades and has proven to be a durable and efficient design.
In BF3, it's elegant, clean, and leave no mess on your screen, and have become every aggressive recon and suppressive PKP operator's go-to scope. But should it be so cool?
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| via www.ar15.com |
PK-A in real life, in fact, is a red dot sight, which means its magnification is only 1x, just like Kobra. And it provides a bit less field of view compared to the BF3 counterpart.
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| via www.spbtalk.ru |
DICE made it 3.4x just to simply counter M145 from the US side, but with its cleaner view over M145, their attempt to balance the game has been proven futile again.
Hate to say this, but someone out there did a better job than DICE on this one (not perfect, but better), and you know who that is.... (Don't say the name or you'll get a warm cup of fanboy bash!)
to be continued...
(In the next part I won't be doing sniper scopes as they are fine as is except for PKS-07's rangefinder not accurately scaled, an old news. Instead I'll be talking about the zoom mechanism in BF3)
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