Night Vision Dbal A3 Identification

Fake, pretty bad one at that.

Agree, it's a fake!

Not necessarily a fake. Some of the very first Dbal A3's did not have x and y adjustment on the illuminator.

This appears to be a legit unit from the limited picture and from the barrel on the illuminator it is a civilian version.

Take a bunch of pictures of all angle of the unit and I should be able to tell you more.

However, I would not want one (especially a civilian version) where you could not adjust the x & y of the illuminator to center the illuminator circle with your IR pointer.

And that is coming from someone who loves the Dbal A3 especially for its Overide feature.

Laser Devices Inc (then Steiner) did a lot of versions and changes to both the Dbal A2 and A3's so you can see a few strange iterations of these out there. There is a full power version Dbal A3 that even had a setting for low power IR point with high power Illuminator which produces a perfect fine aiming IR pointer superimposed in a high IR illuminator beam.

On the normal-standard 50/50/50 FP models of the A3 you have to put a Neutral Density Filter on the IR Point to tame it down by 80% while using the high setting to get the full power use out of the illuminator. Otherwise the 50 mW Pointer just blooms out to big.