If you ask which kind of equipment can shine most in the modern military field, it must not beTactical flashlightNone other than that. Long before the advent of tactical flashlights,Light is already playing a vital role in the battlefield environment. After humans in early primitive societies mastered the use of fire, they soon discovered that the light emitted by fire could effectively drive away wild beasts and illuminate at night. Primitive humans used dead branches and leaves and animal fat to make torches for lighting or hunting prey at night, thus breaking the curse of human beings to sleep in the night and rise in the dark.
With the continuous expansion of human populations, the footprints of the terrifying Homo erectus have gradually spread all over the world, followed by the competition for territory and resources between various races. At first, it was just a war between various tribes, and everyone stopped at having enough for themselves, but who would think that their family was big? And so it slowly evolved into a war between various nations and even races. As the battlefield becomes wider and the battle front becomes longer and longer, people have discovered a problem: In the past, communication was only done by shouting at the top of the voice, but now on the front of several kilometers or tens of kilometers, it is impossible to hear the shouting through the throat, and relying on the messengers to run back and forth is slow and delays. However, at this time, human beings only used fire light for lighting, and most people did not think of the communication role of light.
Until the rise of the Western Zhou Dynasty in 1046 BC, the emergence of the beacon tower became the world's earliest long-distance communication device, and a generation of famous allusions was also derived later-the princes of the beacon theater. It is recorded in the "Mozi Order" that lighting a cigarette during the day is called "Feng", and lighting a fire at night is called "Sui". In the Qin Dynasty, the beacon tower really flourished. After King Qin swept Liuhe and unified the world, in order to strengthen and consolidate his rule and prevent foreign invasions, he repaired and connected various sections of the Great Wall during the Warring States Period, and at the same time every 2A beacon tower was built on a distance of 5 5 kilometers, and the platforms were connected, and in case of foreign enemies, one was started, and ten thousand units were burnedplayed a vital role in the field of military defense.
Interestingly, in the TV series Three-Body Problem, the famous human computer also relies on the lanterns in the hands of officers and soldiers to simulate the binary operation of the computer's 0 and 1. More than 100 years ago, American immigrant Conrad Hubert stumbled upon a glittering flower pot made by a friend, so he put a light bulb and battery in an iron tube, and the world's first flashlight was born. Funnily enough, due to the limited technology at the time, the English name of the flashlight was called flashlight, which literally translates to flashing light. With the advancement of science and technology,The performance of the flashlight has also been improved, thanks to its small size, convenience and speed, it was quickly welcomed by the major military and police departments, and it naturally became one of the indispensable equipment of the troops of various countries. Especially after entering World War II, flashlights have become a standard equipment for almost every soldier.
With the continuous development of science and technology, the flashlight has been iterated with very strong performance and many functions, providing convenience and safety for soldiers and police in the performance of tasks, not only the military and police units of various countries favor it, and because of its legal and easy-to-buy characteristics, it is also deeply loved by outdoor adventure, security, escort and other personnel. But even if it is said to be heavenly, the flashlight is just a tube that will glow, thatTactical flashlights and regular flashlightsWhat's the difference? And how can it be used as an important tactical equipment, and even develop a series of tactics from it?
We all know that when the military and police perform their tasks, they often need to enter all kinds of harsh environments, such as strong winds and rains, swamps, and even armed prisonersThe same style of the Hong Kong Athlons XT11GT PRO tactical flashlightFor example, its waterproof index is reachedipx8, which means that at a depth of 2 meters underwater, it can work continuously for 30 minutes without seepage. At the same time, due to the use of high-grade aviation T6 aluminum alloy, it ensures the reliability of the structure in complex environments such as falls and explosions on the battlefield.
The back clip pioneered the use of a built-in grip clip, which completely eliminates the risk of falling and losing the flashlight due to being hooked by foreign objects. However, if it is only satisfied, it can only be regarded as a sturdy flashlight, and it is not enough to talk about tactics. With the increasingly complex anti-terrorism situation in today's society, a considerable part of combat operations are usually carried out at night, accompanied by a weak or even no light combat environment, which leads to a unique tactic - low-light tactics. For ease of understanding, we adopt:Low-light four-nodeLet's introduce them in turn.
Light illumination
In military operations or police execution, there are often tasks such as inventory and survey, which require long-term holding and use of flashlights, which has great requirements for the volume and endurance of handlights. For example, the XT11GT Pro tactical flashlight has an automotive-grade battery of 18650 1300mAh, which can last up to 120 hours in low-volume mode, and 4 hours in the most commonly used 1200 lumen rangeAt the same time, the flashlight is small and lightweight, and it is also convenient to carry for a long time, with a total of 5 gears to meet the lighting needs of police officers under different conditions.
The way of lighting is far more than direct lighting with a flashlight, for the survey of indoor lightless environment, you can lift the flashlight up and use the ceilingDiffuse reflectionBrighten up the whole roomThe XT11GT Pro's maximum brightness can even restore the entire room to the light-on state.
Light suppression
Light suppression may be very unfamiliar to students who do not understand tactics, and speaking the vernacular is a thorn that can't open their eyes. Students who have been on the highway may wish to imagine that you are driving in a very long tunnel, and suddenly rush out of the tunnel mouth, and you will be in front of you. The tactical flashlight takes advantage of the sensitivity of the human eye to light, and uses instantaneous strong light to deprive the enemy of vision. Here we introduce a luminous unit - lumens (lm), which can be temporarily understood as the brightness of light, the brightness of a candle is about 1 lumen, the flash of a mobile phone is about 15 20 lumens, the halogen headlights of a car are about 1500 lumens to 2500 lumens, and the human eye is absolutely unable to directly look at a strong light of more than 800 lumens for more than a second at close range.
However, the brightness of most tactical flashlights nowadays is well above 1000 lumens, and the lumen value is also important to the light intensity, which is simply understood as the intensity of light per unit area (CD). The higher the light intensity, the longer the range, and the more dazzling it is, and the Kerryz XT11GT Pro tactical flashlight in my hand is equipped with Luminus SST70 lamp beads, and the highest peak brightness reaches a terrible 3300 lumensBeing flashed at close range by such brightness will result in a loss of full field of view for at least 3 or 4 seconds, even if it is only 01 second can directly determine life and death, and these 3 or 4 seconds can be used to complete actions such as observation, shooting, penetration, and capture.
In indoor close-range combat, special combat personnel need to endure extremely high psychological pressure, and in such a high-situation combat environment, it is required that the operation of equipment be as simple as possible, so as to improve the error tolerance rate of equipment operation in a tense environment. KerrytzThe XT11GT Pro tactical flashlight is designed with a fifth-generation tactical switch, which can be lit with a light touch and a heavy press to lock the gear, and the mode button with a large area below can be turned on with one click.
Hong Kong** in 2019 can be said to have used light suppression to the extreme. At that time, **molecules were rampant, and a large number of tactical flashlights appeared in the application scenarios of the suppression mission, and even more so after the encirclementUse strong light to suppress, stun, and destroy the opponent's psychological defense.
So how does a tactical flashlight stun people? This brings us to his other function, the Burst, which uses short and rapid alternating light and dark to make the human eye uncomfortableThe Kerriz XT11GT Pro tactical flashlight uses variable frequency flash technology, and the frequency of the flash is different, which further makes the eyes unable to adapt to the changes in light and darkness to achieve the purpose of vertigo. At the same time, this function is not only suitable for the military and police, because it has no legal risks, it is also a personal self-defense equipment that I have always admired, especially for girls with weak strength and speed, this simple use logic, strong blinding effect, can be said to be one of the most suitable self-defense equipment for girls. Interestingly, the XT11GT Pro Tactical Flashlight can also be used with a gun clip and rat tail switch to turn it into a rifle gun light, which is very popular with Wargame players in addition to the military and police.
Light deception
Speaking of light deception, let's introduce one more word—Photon barrier, which means that the light source emits the point as the center, the radius of 1 3 meters to draw a circle, forming a circular luminous area, like a shield in front of you, you can understand it as a one-way glass, I can see you, but you can't see me, so you can blur your position. At the beginning, we said that the light in the dark is the most eye-catching, in such a combat environmentLighting up the flashlight for a long time is undoubtedly putting yourself in a disadvantageous position. So in low-light tactics, we usually use intermittent lighting. This method has the advantage that at the moment of lighting, we can clearly observe the position or current situation of the other party, while the other party can only see a vague bright light, and after turning off the flashlight, it will immediately fall into darkness. Using the cover of darkness, we can constantly switch positions to deceive the opponent's situational senses, observe the opponent's position, and create an illusion for the opponent, bringing huge psychological pressure.
Here I would like to introduce a unique low-light tactic called:FBI-style grip lighting。We often talk about free America, ** every day, every day in this free country everyone has a gun, which poses a great threat to law enforcement officers. How to reduce the probability of being hit as much as possible while illuminating the target has become the research direction of the authorities. In the continuous actual combat, the FBI agents have cultivatedLift the flashlight from its side position and as far away from your torso as possiblehabits.
Let's put in a paragraph now**, eh, did you see this bird?
If not, you're inTunneling effect。The so-called tunnel effect refers to the fact that the human body will instinctively pay attention to obvious or high-value objects in a high-pressure environment, and ignore some things that are not very important or obvious. This is the underlying logic of the FBI grip, when the gangster sees a bright light, he will instinctively shoot at the light source, but at this time your body is far away from the light source, thus reducing the probability of being hit. This grip is very useful in a dark environment where there is relatively no cover and no coverBut if the other party is a master of human strokes, then ask for more blessings.
Light delivery
Due to the characteristics of portable, compact, high brightness, long range and long battery life, in addition to military and police units, forest firefighting, outdoor enthusiasts, and emergency rescue departments also favor it. Due to the good directivity of light, it is widely used in search and rescue in complex environments. I just talked about candela, that is, the light intensity, the higher the candela value, the longer the range of the flashlight. The Kerriz XT11GT Pro has a light intensity of 29,000 candela, and with a mirror reflector, it has an ANSI standard range of more than 400 meters. At the same time, due to the collimation of light propagating in a straight line, it is possible to use the beam of light to indicate the target area to teammates in the night sky. For outdoor enthusiasts, you can also use a flashlight to press Morse codes such as three short, three long, three short, etc.
It seems that since ancient times, light has been regarded as a god. The afterglow slowly sets, leaving the dark sunset alone, the only tranquility after death. The light disappeared into the world like a withered flower, never to be found again. He said, Let there be light, and there was light.
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