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Article: Military, Border Patrol Set Sights on NightHunter Searchlight. (Newsmakers).(Xenonics Inc. puts power in small package)(Brief Article)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 17, 2001
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CARLSBAD -- Like the other military or police organizations that have seen it, the Army's 101st Airborne Division liked the NightHunter searchlight.
But division leaders thought a 10-pound object the size of two coffee cans placed end-to-end was too much for the individual soldier.
After all, these guys need to parachute into places and move around.
Could you make it smaller, they asked.
So the people of Carlsbad-based Xenonics, Inc. set to work and came up with a 4.4-pound model.
In pictures at least, the NightHunter II searchlight could be mistaken for a flashlight.
It has the same proportions, and its long, round ...