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If I'm detecting with thermal, it's either a helmet mounted COTI or full-on unit or using a handheld that I stop and bring up from ime to time. When it's time to shoot it's either I2 passively with an RDS or laser or maybe an I2 or thermal scope or clip-on.
I don't see myself keeping the rile up 100% and scanning with it and I don't think 1x would be my choice for engaging with a thermal if I can avoid it. I guess you could put a magnifier behind it, just like an RDS.
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The use case discussion is definitely worth talking through.
I don't think this is a replacement for your helmet-mounted thermal, or your handheld thermal. If you are doing a scan/search, you do not want to be pointing your rifle at everything, just like you wouldn't want to do that with a pistol/rifle with white light. What I was thinking of using it on was my "daytime/white-light" rifle. If I needed to shoot at something that I had spotted, but was hard to see due to use of concealment, turning on thermal would potentially give me an extra edge in that regard. Also, if taking fire and couldn't see immediately the source, I'd probably be OK with doing a search using a fusion thermal sight in the general direction it was coming from.