Oh no, DarkOps flashlight!

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They've got some great comedy writers in the ad department.

http://www.hellfireusa.com/about.html


"...striker ring at the bezel is designed to shatter glass in law enforcement interdiction activities. The officer can crack through the driver's window with the same hand holding the light, rather than shoot out the rear window as the car drives off."

Damn, I never got to do that.

"The dedicated gun modules are Class 3 anodized for IR invisibility."

Uh, ok.


"Stainless Steel high conductive transmission springs reduce resistance for even greater light output!"

Translation= Metal conducts electricity! Eureka!


"The milled lanyard holes will take standard military paracord."

Civilian paracord not accepted.
 
With construction of the world's toughest materials and ftesting labs in the battle zones of Baghdad and south-central Los Angeles
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It is alodined for conductivity enhancement
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With all the money they spent on R&D they could not afford a proofreader.
 
A DarkOps flashlight? Isn't that an oxymoron?




Its patent pending striker ring at the bezel is designed to shatter glass in law enforcement interdiction activities. The officer can crack through the driver's window with the same hand holding the light...
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I'd have to see this to believe it. Modern automotive safety glass is amazing stuff. Breaking it is generallyd done with a very precussive force applied to a single point. Generally, the force must be more precussive than can be generated by hand. And their mechanism seems to have four points would would tend to spread the force out rather than concentrate it which is what is require.



Alodining is probably not a type-o. Alodining is another surface treatment for aluminum and it does improve the surface electrical contact of aluminum. Aluminum is actually highly electrically conductive. But, the surface of aluminum oxidizes (i.e. rusts) instantly on contact with air. Every piece of aluminum you've ever seen (unless you've been in an organometlic chemistry lab) is covered with rust. Fortunately, aluminum rust is clear and forms such a hard, sealed surface that that after a very, very thin layer forms, the surface is sealed airtight and no further oxidation takes place which is why we say that Aluminum doesn't rust. It actually does rust and virtually instantly, but the rust is self-limiting. Unfortunately aluminum oxide, also known as saphire, is not decidedly not electrically conductive. This was the problem with Aluminum wiring in houses. It's not that aluminum doesn't conduct; it does. The problem was that the connections oxided and the oxide is not conductive. Alodining solves this problem. Unfortunately, alodining is a bit to expensive for household electrical connections. Also, alodined aluminum is not a durable surface.

My guess (and it's just my guess) is that the contract manufacturer who makes these for DarkOps has alodined the inside surface for electrical conductivity and anodized the outside for a durable anticorrosion finish.


Class 3 anodized for IR invisibility.
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They've claimed this for knives too. I've tried to find any reference to Class 3 anodizing (or any anodizing for that matter) redering an object IR invisible.

First of all, Class 3 anodizing refers to military standard MIL-A-8625 (which has also been adopted for commercial aircraft as Boeing BAC5019). This is nothing new. This process and this spec have been around for many years.

Second, IR visibility depends on a heat difference between an object and its background. If the object is radiating or absorbing heat, the it becomes IR visible. To my knowledge, a MIL-A-8625 Class III anodized coating can not keep an aluminum object for radiating or absorbing heat.

So, I really want to see some independent confirmation of this DarkOps claim.
 
Gollnick said:
Second, IR visibility depends on a heat difference between an object and its background. If the object is radiating or absorbing heat, the it becomes IR visible. To my knowledge, a MIL-A-8625 Class III anodized coating can not keep an aluminum object for radiating or absorbing heat.
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wait wait wait... let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that since the world they live in is always at a constant lighting level and there are no changes in temperature anywhere, then their claim that it's IR invisible is in fact true.
 
Planterz said:
No blood grooves? What a POS!
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I don't know. A little repositioning of those indentions behind the bezel could work to control bloodspray during night-time, 150 lumen, infrared invisible de-animation exercizes.

The new improoved Hellfire X-22 will have a 35,000rpm saw blade in the bezel, so watch out for it. It'll come standard with blood collection buckets.
 
With construction of the world's toughest materials and ftesting labs in the battle zones of Baghdad and south-central Los Angeles...
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I think I understand... it's a flashlight for paranoid white people who think LA has "battle zones".
 
Will P. said:
I think I understand... it's a flashlight for paranoid white people who think LA has "battle zones".
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Of COURSE LA has battle zones... didn't you ever see "Predator 2"?
 
DarkOps flashlight ? There used to be a cartoon about a time machine and the Professor finds a cave man named Alley Oop.The professor invented a "dark flashlight ", that is it puts out a beam of darkness instead of light !!!
 
mete said:
DarkOps flashlight ? There used to be a cartoon about a time machine and the Professor finds a cave man named Alley Oop.The professor invented a "dark flashlight ", that is it puts out a beam of darkness instead of light !!!
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Used for covert de-illumination activities, no doubt!
 
What good will it do you if your flashlight and knife don't have an IR signature, but you still do?
 
Chris Mapp said:
What good will it do you if your flashlight and knife don't have an IR signature, but you still do?
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Ninjas have no IR signature.
 
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