Depends on ambient light level, brightness at target and reflectivity of target. I have shot Class III lasers at clouds and can make very visible circles on them at (very roughly) 3,000 ft. (say 1,000 m) Trees on a hillside on normal darkness are easily illuminated to 2,000 m. At a mile or so, it is /barely/ visible only if you try to find it though. So a long ways off, well past the engagement range for anything you individually, or a fire team has with it, but only pretty darned close when it comes to air support which is why JTACs have REALLY, REALLY powerful lasers.

@@StevenHoober I appreciate the review and quick answer. Do you by chance know of any budget friendly night vision compatible red dots. I just dove head first into night vision and am looking for a full started set up that won't break the bank.

@@Masterafro999 HOW budgety (how cheap), and how rugged use?

@@StevenHoober I live in a country where the only "firearms" are Airsoft or paintball. I only want to be able to engage other players at night with a passive aiming device. My budget would be up to 200€ for now. Replicas would work as well as long as they have NV modes.

@@Masterafro999 All the replicas now on the market (there used to be better) are pretty bad sadly. Depending how eBay is over {wherever} I'd look for less well know or loved mil-issued items. Even old beat up Aimpoints are pretty expensive, but with patience at that price you can sneak into the civilian versions of the Meprolight M5 (issued with most Tavors, and I have 5,... work great!). Also check out DI Optical. They make stuff for the Korean military and have sold some of their bigger weirder sights (like for miniguns, etc) to the US, I am /pretty/ sure. Then: closeouts. Steiner makes lots of weird stuff that doesn't take off. When they clear out one of their red dots, sometimes they are pretty cheap and that's here in the US, I bet elsewhere they are even cheaper. Also: my experience is that NV-mode varies from dot to dot. NOT the power level, but the importance of it. Aimpoints really bloom to hell if not in NV mode. But the lower half of the settings on the Mepro work fine with my NODs. Better to turn down to the NV mode but not required. So, might work to get a quality civilian (like: hunting) RDS, and just use it low power, don't worry too much about NV mode specifically. Try to hit up some others next time at the airsoft range/field when dark and look through a bunch to see if any work well, to start getting a baseline on it.