Aimpoint's New COA: Clever Optics Advancement (Ad-free)
Added 2025-01-14 16:00:03 +0000 UTCLet me first mention something that I didn't cover in the video: what does "COA" stand for? Well, nothing. They just wanted a name that they could trademark that wasn't already in use. So go ahead and make up your own acronym.
It may be hard to see how a pistol red dot sight could be exciting, but if you're into this sort of the, the new Aimpoint COA has some really neat features. Specifically:
* Really excellent mounting system that fixed the problems of recoil lugs and screw holes into the delicate bits of pistol slides
* Improved software with things like automatic brightness step-down to maintain battery life
* Reduced width, essentially taking the Acro and removing the outer shell.
* Automated assembly, to reduce end user cost.
The project has been a collaboration with Glock, and so Glock has the exclusive use of the COA for the first year, starting now. After that, Aimpoint will release the A-cut specifications to industry for everyone else to use.
Disclaimer: I don't have a COA myself, unless they decide to give me one after this video publishes. I went to Aimpoint on my own dime (thanks, Patreon!) to film the funky and cool PDW they built in 1979 (that video is coming soon), and they asked if I wanted to see the secret new thing while I was there. So of course I said yes, and this video is the result.
Comments
In a lot of ways, this new COA red dot optic reminds me of .30 Super Carry. An excellent new product that SHOULD have had a major impact on the market, but instead left everyone wondering why they should abandon the existing (often excellent) alternatives and adopt something entirely new. COA is a neat system, but I don't see it making all other existing red dots obsolete.
ERB2
2025-01-15 18:26:46 +0000 UTCGlock and Aimpoint shouldn't be able to patent lock that attachment method, hopefully anyway, as I have worked with other devices that lock a system down like that. Those other systems might even include a cam locking lever. edit: Not firearm devices.
Old n Grey Gunner
2025-01-15 14:20:56 +0000 UTCabsolutely not for me, starting with the firearms I like, but that sounds an improvement IF most gunmakers optic manufactors jump the same band wagon. -what's the, hollowsun wasn't it(?), with that "frame" on the window that gets in sight if one canted the gun over too far? they should add that for less fishing for a dot. - good it's deeper so those silencer height irons won't be needed again. that was kind of... well it's a high front sight to draw from a holster.
Guido Schriewer
2025-01-14 19:22:18 +0000 UTC
