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“ Our company was sent to Fallujah as part of Task Force Enforcer. Our main mission was to conduct raids, literally dozens and dozens of them. As a veteran of several SWAT schools and a tactical pistol instructor, I can tell you that this was often a CQB (close quarters battle) nightmare. However, the best weapons I had were my SureFire M962 WeaponLight™ and Z2 CombatLight®. I can’t tell you how many times our blinding white lights prevented an exchange of gunfire and the probable loss of innocent lives. When you are clearing city blocks that don’t have electricity, the most valuable weapon in your arsenal is your light. I have purchased, trained with, and recommend- ed your product for several years now, and will continue to do so proudly. On September 1, 2003 I was riding in the passenger seat of a Humvee when a roadside bomb (later determined to be a 155mm shell) was detonated. Hot chunks of metal sprayed everywhere, rupturing our fuel tanks and injur- ing our gunner. My weapon was pointing out of the window and when the blast occurred it and my WeaponLight were struck with pieces of shrapnel that would otherwise have hit my head and face. Once again my weapon and my SureFire saved the day. Our gunner has recovered, but my M962 will forever remain in Iraq. I will replace my M962, my life I cannot. Please keep up the good work.” Sincerely, L. Hadziyianis AP Worldwide © 2005 SureFire, LLC. All rights reserved CONTENTS THE TACTICAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY™ TECHNOLOGY THE TACTICAL 2 SYSTEM OVERVIEW 4 THE SUREFIRE DIFFERENCE: SUPERIOR TECHNOLOGY 12 HOW TO CHOOSE A LONG GUN WEAPONLIGHT™ 14 MILLENNIUM® UNIVERSAL SYSTEM WEAPONLIGHTS 18 VERTICAL FOREGRIP WEAPONLIGHTS 20 SCOUT LIGHT™ WEAPONLIGHTS 22 DEDICATED FOREND WEAPONLIGHTS 26 CLASSIC UNIVERSAL SYSTEM WEAPONLIGHTS 34 HOW TO CHOOSE A HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHT 36 X200™ SERIES HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHTS 38 MILITARY SERIES HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHTS 40 NITROLON® SERIES HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHTS 42 SOUND SUPPRESSORS 44 PICATINNY RAIL FORENDS 45 LASER SIGHTS 46 EDGED WEAPONS 48 FLASHLIGHTS 52 FLASHLIGHT TECHNICAL CHART 54 ACCESSORIES 56 ABBREVIATED PRODUCT LIST MILLENNIUM UNIVERSAL WEAPONLIGHTS PAGE 14 PAGE DEDICATED FOREND WEAPONLIGHTS Attaches to Picatinny rail and features modular inter- 22 PAGE changeable components. VERTICAL FOREGRIP WEAPONLIGHTS Replacement forends with integral switching. Available for rifles, carbines, submachine guns and shotguns. PAGE 18 PAGE CLASSIC UNIVERSAL WEAPONLIGHTS Foregrips with integrated battle lamp and smaller LEDs 26 PAGE for stealth navigation. Attaches to Picatinny rail. SCOUT LIGHT SYSTEM WEAPONLIGHTS For weapons not equipped with mounting rails. Available in standard or custom configurations. PICATINNY RAIL FORENDS SYSTEM OVERVIEW SYSTEM PAGE 20 PAGE PAGE 44 PAGE Ultra-compact modular LED system attaches to Picatinny rail. Replacement forends with integral rails for rock-solid accessory mounting. 2 X200 HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHTS PAGE 36 PAGE SOUND SUPPRESSORS PAGE 42 PAGE Advanced handgun WeaponLights. Featuring a tactical- power LED in an extremely lightweight, compact unit. OVERVIEW SYSTEM MILITARY HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHTS The most accurate sound suppressors available, providing improved balance and durability. PAGE 38 PAGE EDGED WEAPONS Super-rugged incandescent handgun WeaponLights 46 PAGE designed for battlefield and combat swimmer conditions. NITROLON HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHTS User-driven designs, superior materials, precision construction, and extreme durability. FLASHLIGHTS PAGE 40 PAGE PAGE 48 PAGE Polymer body incandescent WeaponLight. Ultra-bright white to infrared, SureFire flashlights are the choice for mission-critical applications. 3 THE SUREFIRE DIFFERENCE: SUPERIOR TECHNOLOGY The weapon-mounted lights you see being used by SWAT teams and military personnel are usually SureFire products. Why? Because SureFire’s advanced technology delivers illumination tools of superior design, materials, ruggedness, reliability, light output, beam quality, and ergonomics. The hardest test of equipment is combat and street duty, and the highest stamp of approval for SureFire products is their widespread use by per- sonnel operating in harm’s way. When your life depends on having the optimum illumination right when you need it, spend the money to get the best — SureFire. Used by more SWAT teams and military special operations units than any other brand. Modularity A fundamental benefit for SureFire users is modularity. Our WeaponLights consist of separate components — incandescent lamps, LEDs, reflec- tor modules, bodies, switches, and mounts — that are interchangeable within and often across our main WeaponLight systems, and often inter- changeable with our flashlight parts. This provides three fundamental advantages: • WeaponLights can be quickly modified for particular mission requirements. • Parts from various WeaponLights can be swapped in the field to make repairs or modifications. • An armorer’s stock of spare WeaponLight parts can be put to broader use instead of being limited to specific equipment models. Anodic cell Pore Anodized Aluminum Alloy Construction SureFire’s aluminum-body WeaponLights are machined from a high-strength aero- space-grade alloy, making them extremely resistant to damage from impact, crushing, or bending, and allowing them to be made as small and light as possible without sacri- ficing strength. Note: Some of our lights are made of Nitrolon — see following section. Aluminum SureFire’s aluminum-body WeaponLights and flashlights are protected by a finish substrate called anodizing. The anodizing process Flashlight body CNC-machined from high- strength aerospace grade aluminum alloy. Cross-section diagram of hard anodizing, showing (from anode, the positive side of an electri- surface pores containing trapped dye colorant. cal circuit) uses electricity and a chemical bath to “grow” a layer of aluminum oxide on an aluminum surface. Aluminum oxide is the second-hardest substance known to man, exceeded only by diamond, and certain anodized finishes can be made extremely hard, such as the Mil-A-8625 Type III Class 2 military specifica- tion finish that SureFire uses. SureFire’s Multi-axis Computer Numerically Controlled 4 lathes ensure precision-machined components. Nitrolon® Some flashlights are made of relatively cheap polymers (plastics) such as ABS. SureFire’s polymer WeaponLight and flashlight bodies are made of Nitrolon, a pro- prietary high-strength, non-conductive, impact-resistant, glass-filled polyamide nylon polymer. “Glass-filled” means that the polymer matrix has been mixed with fine glass fibers that add rigidity, abrasion resistance, and increased stability at higher temperatures. Light Output: Candlepower vs. Lumens Some manufacturers dramatize light output measurements by using candlepower units. They can get away with this because light measurement terminology is unfamiliar to most people. But the basic concepts can be explained as follows: The science of measuring light with respect to its effect on the human eye — which responds differently according to the wavelength, or color, of that light — is called photometry. Photometry includes measuring light intensity in a particular direction (in units of candlepower or candelas) and total light energy in a particular situation (measured in lumens). With illumination tools, a candlepower measurement doesn’t necessarily indicate total light output. To illus- trate this, imagine representing a flashlight’s total light output as a bag of sugar. If you pour the sugar onto a table to form a cone and measure the cone’s height (representing the brightest part of the flash- light beam as measured in candlepower), you still wouldn’t know the total weight of the sugar (repre- (Light expert) Dr. Peter Hauk runs a test with the integrating senting the total light output as measured in lumens). sphere photometer in the SureFire laboratory. Conversely, if we shake the table so that the cone settles and becomes rounded, the sugar’s weight (lumens) would be the same but the height (brightest part of the beam) has been lowered The human eye responds most strongly to light nearest the 560 nanometer wavelength, which is a yellow-green color. and spread out. Now take half the sugar from the demonstration above and put it inside a narrow conical container taller than the loose conical piles we made earlier. Even though this narrow cone’s height (candlepower measurement) is greater than the previous cones, it contains only half the sugar (lumens). Reflectors and lenses are analogous to that conical container because they can create a light beam with a high-candlepower “hot spot” that sounds good in advertisements but tells nothing about total light output or light distribution within the beam. SureFire uses integrating sphere photometers to measure the total lumen output of our illumination tool’s, weighted with respect to human eye response. Other man- ufacturers have begun to follow our lead. For the record, a lumen is 1/4 π of the total photon (light) flux emitted by a one-candela source. One candela is the luminous intensity of a source whose radiant inten- sity is 1/683rd of a watt of monochromatic light of wavelength 550 nanometers per steradian. A steradian is a conical figure, or solid angle, whose intersection with a unit sphere covers one unit area. Got it? 5 THE SUREFIRE DIFFERENCE: SUPERIOR TECHNOLOGY Xenon/Halogen Incandescent Lamps The miniature incandescent lamps that SureFire uses in its WeaponLights and flashlights are not typical off-the-shelf products. They are state- of-the-art devices with

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