![[NEW] PREDATOR Multi-Role Thermal Imaging Monocular | Clip-On Ready, Helmet Mountable w/ Swappable Lenses & Rail Adapter Kit](http://fr.nightoperators.com/cdn/shop/files/FULLLOADOUTkitflatlay.png?v=1786224979&width=1445)

ONE DEVICE. FOUR JOBS.
A compact thermal you can carry, helmet-mount, bridge with your analog optics, or mount to your setup. Civilian-direct, from $749.95.
We believe this is the most capable multipurpose clip-on and headworn thermal imager ever offered at this price, and we are not letting it out until it is perfect. A QC issue surfaced in prototyping, so we slowed down. Every purchase reserves a unit inside the current wave and locks your place in the build queue.
Night vision amplifies light. Thermal sees heat.
Analog night vision needs ambient light and shows you the scene. Thermal needs nothing. It reads heat straight off bodies, engines, and ground, in total darkness, through fog, light brush, and camouflage.
Nothing warm hides. A hog in a brush line, a coyote in tall grass, a person on your property at 2 a.m.: they glow.
Scanning and detection are where thermal dominates. The limits are listed below, in plain language.

WHAT THERMAL WILL NOT DO.




We would rather you know this before you buy than after.
Most thermals do one job. This one does four.

Pull it from a pocket and scan a treeline in seconds.
Take the controls.
This is a live simulation of the PREDATOR display. Real footage, real controls.


Nine color modes on Gen 1. Contrast and brightness adjustable. One clean crosshair reticle.
Unscrew close. Thread on far.

The PREDATOR ships with a 4mm wide-angle objective for maximum field of view on headworn scans, treeline sweeps, and moving on foot.
Every PREDATOR ships with the 4mm wide-angle installed. Thread on the 13mm distance objective and the same sensor reaches out. Swap by hand in seconds, no tools. The 13mm is $199.95, or included with the FULL LOADOUT kit.
The PREDATOR ships with a 4mm wide-angle objective for maximum field of view on headworn scans, treeline sweeps, and moving on foot.
Every PREDATOR ships with the 4mm wide-angle installed. Thread on the 13mm distance objective and the same sensor reaches out. Swap by hand in seconds, no tools. The 13mm is $199.95, or included with the FULL LOADOUT kit.


An onboard reticle, when you want one.
One clean crosshair, and full control over it. Turn the onboard reticle on or off, and nudge its position with the arrow keys until it sits exactly where you want. Your setting is saved across power cycles.
Scan headworn, then mount it to your setup, or run it in-line ahead of your existing optic and let your day-scope do the aiming.

It speaks dovetail. So it already fits your gear.

The PREDATOR uses the same industry-standard dovetail and 1913-pattern interfaces the night vision world standardized years ago. No proprietary lock-in.


The mounts alone would cost a fortune. They are in the box.



That is $1,400 to $1,800 in mounts at name-brand prices. With us, they are included or a fraction. And the flip-to-side: no other thermal on the market offers a low-profile 90-degree flip-to-side QD dovetail. Not one.




Drops in ahead of your optic. On the same centerline.
The PREDATOR mounts ahead of your existing day optic and you look straight through it. With our mounts the optical centerline sits at roughly 1.54 inches, which matches most 1.54 inch LPVO mounts.


With a holographic optic the eye relief is longer, so the view through the clip-on is more tunnelled, with less field of view. It works, but the LPVO image is better.
One honest note on height: this class of holographic optic puts its optical centerline at roughly 1.74 inches above the rail, not 1.54. The PREDATOR sits slightly lower, so you will not be able to make full use of the glass centered. No riser exists for it right now. Use the PREDATOR's digital reticle for alignment, as covered in the note below.
We highly recommend running an LPVO behind the clip-on. Your eye sits right up against the glass, so you get much more field of view and a clearer, fuller image.
With holographic optics and magnifiers, an aftermarket riser may be necessary to achieve a more perfect center. Otherwise you will likely rely on the PREDATOR's digital reticle rather than your day optic's reticle, since the optics are not perfectly collimated. The standard we hold: align on the digital reticle, floating roughly around the center of your actual LPVO or holographic reticle. We got it really close, but we cannot guarantee alignment through multiple optics, so use the digital reticle. And the digital reticle is not bad.
We recoil-tested it. It held.
Most thermals in this class have never seen a proof test. We ran the PREDATOR through heavy recoil, shot after shot, including punishment hard enough to tear the mount clean off the platform. We re-secured it, and it held its setting exactly. It holds zero, session after session. That is not a spec-sheet claim. That is what happened on the range.
Why name-brand compact thermals cost $2,800 to $3,400. And ours starts at $749.95.

The big-name compact multi-role thermals are excellent devices. If a famous logo and a dealer handshake matter to you, buy one. No hard feelings.
The part of the price that sees heat is the sensor and the lens. The rest is the supply chain: importer, distributor, dealer, retail. Every markup lands on the tag and none of it lands on the screen.
We sell civilian-direct from our manufacturing partner. Same four-role concept, same industry-standard mounting, simplified where simplification does not cost you heat on the screen. That is the entire trick. There is no other trick.
And the part nobody else does: the dual dovetail bridge comes FREE for early bird orders, including CORE at $749.95. It is a real $179.95 accessory on its own listing, and on the name-brand side the same bridge is a separate purchase at about $599, sold to you a month after the device, once you have worked out that thermal on its own is not the same as thermal beside analog. We give it away in the entry kit because we make it ourselves, and because you should not have to buy twice to find that out. That is a launch window offer for early bird orders. After launch, the bridge sells separately at $179.95.
CORE plus the G24 and flip-to-side add-ons comes to $1,029.85. MOUNT KIT is $949.95 and saves you $79.90.

What we left out on purpose.
Every dollar we cut came out of complexity. None of it came out of the housing, the mounting standard, or the warranty.
Where it lands in the market.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price band | From $749.95 | $2,800 to $3,400 | $700 to $1,500 | $300 to $700 |
| Four-role capability | Helmet: supportedDirect mount: supportedClip-on: supportedHandheld: supported | Helmet: supportedDirect mount: supportedClip-on: supportedHandheld: supported | Helmet: not supportedDirect mount: supportedClip-on: not supportedHandheld: not supported | Helmet: not supportedDirect mount: not supportedClip-on: not supportedHandheld: supported |
| Swappable objectives | ||||
| Dovetail helmet standard | ||||
| In-line clip-on | ||||
| Sold | Direct | Dealer network | Marketplace | Marketplace |
| Warranty | 1 year | Varies | Varies | Often none |
| US support | Rarely | Rarely | ||
- Price band bars are drawn on one shared scale from $0 to $3,400.
- Swappable objectives means the 4mm wide-angle and the 13mm reach lens both fit the same housing without tools.
- Dovetail helmet standard means it clicks into the same industry-standard dovetail interface as analog night vision.
- In-line clip-on means it is rated to sit ahead of a day optic rather than replacing it.
- Marketplace means it is resold through third-party listings rather than sold to you directly.
What you'll actually do with it.
Rendered at the PREDATOR's true 320 x 320 display resolution. What you see here is what the screen shows.
Digital zoom does not add detail. At 3.0x the 4mm puts a deer at the same size the 13mm gives you at 1.0x, built from three sensor pixels instead of nine. That is what the second lens actually buys you.

The 13mm distance objective threads on by hand and nearly triples what the same sensor resolves. $199.95, or included in the FULL LOADOUT kit.
Measured on our production units, not copied from a lab sheet.
Scan a field edge and know what is out there before you commit to the walk.
The dogs go off. You step onto the porch and know in four seconds whether it is a person or a possum.
Every light on the street is dead. Yours is the only set of eyes still working.
Off the trail after dark. See the ground, the treeline and whatever is moving in it.
Analog in one eye, heat in the other. The setup that sees everything.
Missing people, lost livestock, a dog off the trail. Body heat cuts through rubble, brush and total darkness.
The numbers.
Power that swaps.

The internal battery runs 4 to 5 hours on a USB-C charge. Drop in the included 16340 and keep going, spares live in your pocket and swap in seconds. Your 16340 ships as its own package and may arrive before or after your unit.
Remove the 16340 before charging over USB-C.
In the box.
Everything laid out, nothing hidden in a spec sheet.
The bridge is a free launch gift for early bird orders. Not an upsell, not a later purchase: a real $179.95 accessory, included at no charge. Name-brand dual bridges run about $599 on their own. Ours ships free with the entry kit, so the day you want your PVS-14 riding beside the PREDATOR, thermal in one eye and analog in the other, the hardware is already yours. After launch it sells separately at $179.95.
Runs approx 4 to 5 hours on the internal USB-C rechargeable battery. Drop in the included 16340 for approx 1.5 to 2 more hours per cell. Cells are inexpensive and swap in seconds, so spares live in your pocket. Your 16340 ships as its own package and may arrive before or after the unit. Remove it before USB-C charging.
Built on demand. Wave one ships 45 to 60 days from purchase.
This is not a warehouse product and it is not a pre-order gamble. Every PREDATOR is built to order in limited waves, and your purchase reserves a real unit inside Wave One production. We hit a quality snag late in prototyping, and rather than ship something almost right, we are hammering it down until it is perfect. That costs time. It does not cost you your place in line.
Reserve now and you are early enough to land in the first wave. Wait, and you are waiting on the second.
We build in small waves, not warehouses. Every purchase reserves one unit inside the Wave One production block, filled in the exact order it came in. When the wave is claimed, the next buyer waits for Wave Two.
We hit a QC snag in prototyping and we are not shipping until it is perfect. Sensor uniformity, objective threads, reticle alignment and mount fit are verified per unit. Units that do not pass do not go out.
Shipping is 45 to 60 days from purchase during the first month of launch. Each order reserves a unit in Wave One production, estimated dispatch late October to early November. We ship worldwide from whichever appropriate or in stock warehouse, and tracking is sent the moment your unit ships.
Shipping is 45 to 60 days from purchase during the first month of launch. Each order reserves a unit in Wave One production, estimated dispatch late October to early November. We ship worldwide from whichever appropriate or in stock warehouse, and you get a confirmation and tracking the moment your unit ships.
The brand behind it.
17,000+ orders shipped since 2023. 5,000+ verified reviews across our night vision line. The PREDATOR is built by the same operation, sold the same way: direct.
Questions, answered straight.

Own the predator.
- Built on demand, ships 45 to 60 days from purchase during the first month of launch
- Wave One estimated dispatch: late October to early November
- Shipped worldwide from whichever appropriate or in stock warehouse
- Limited wave. Orders are built in the sequence they arrive
- Nothing ships until it clears our QC bench. No exceptions
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