Toronto, ON - February 20, 2025 - Cold Harbour Supply is pleased to announce a new direct partnership with Rochester Precision Optics to stock and distribute the new NVD-Next (NVD-N) night vision optics. Rochester Precision Optics' NVD-Next (NVD-N) is the latest lens offering from RPO, and a candidate for the US Army Night Vision Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) NVD-Next program. As an authorized and direct dealer and distributor, NVD-Next lens sets are now available for sale in Canada and internationally directly from Cold Harbour Supply Inc.
The NVD-N lens set currently consists of a redesigned eyepiece and improves upon the legacy 3.0 eyepiece by enlarging the eyebox and eye relief to meet and exceed military specifications.
"The 4th generation RPO NVD-Next eyepiece lens is the largest leap forward in standard night vision optics in recent memory," said Stephen Chau, CEO of Cold Harbour Supply. "In our practical testing, the more generous eye relief and eyebox leads to a much more comfortable and flexible viewing experience for the end-user. Dynamic activities can mean a user's helmet may shift out of an ideal static position. The larger, more forgiving eyebox provides a full view of the intensifier output screen even under adverse goggle positions and/or when used with ballistic glasses, gas masks, and other mission-essential PPE."
In controlled lab tests using a Hoffman ANV-126A test set, the NVD-Next lens provides comparable optical performance and human-factors mechanics to the popular Noctis Technologies optic lens sets while providing a 28% and 42% reduction in objective and eyepiece lens weights respectively. Night vision binoculars equipped with NVD-Next lenses will see up to a 20% reduction in overall system weight.
Rochester Precision Optics is bundling the NVD-Next eyepiece lens with the RPO 3.0 objective and both can be found in the links below: