Colt Optics' New LE-Only Laser Shows Where Aiming Tech Is Heading
Colt Optics is playing for keeps with the LP5X-P, a weapon-mounted aiming laser that skips the usual "first generation" stumble and walks into battle-tested. Built in partnership with Brolis Defence, this unit has already been standardized and fielded across NATO forces, which means the US version you're looking at now isn't some designer's fever dream; it's earned its stripes in the field.
There's a catch: the LP5X-P is restricted to law enforcement and military sales only. If you're a civilian shooter, this one stays behind the glass. That said, understanding what LE and military operators are running tells you where the broader tactical market is headed.
The appeal is straightforward: four co-aligned laser emitters stacked into a single, compact housing. You get a visible green pointer for bright daylight work, an IR pointer for night vision operations, an electronically adjustable IR illuminator for painting targets at variable distances, and a separate VCSEL IR flood for wide-area illumination.
Every single one of them zeros to the same point of impact because they're perfectly aligned, so you don't futz with offsets or recalibrate each time you switch modes. The aiming lasers sit directly over the bore line to keep the point-of-aim-to-point-of-impact offset to a bare minimum.
The US LP5X-P specifically gets a 26-milliwatt visible laser, bumped up to cut through extreme brightness. Colt resized the divergence adjustment knob for gloved-hand operation, which is the kind of detail that separates field-proven gear from laboratory gimmicks. An adjustable flip-up backup iron sight is integral to the housing. The whole rig seals to IP68, runs on a single CR123 battery, weighs just 185 grams, and mounts low-profile to any MIL-STD-1913 or STANAG 4694 Picatinny rail. It operates from -32 to 71 degrees Celsius, housed in reinforced glass-fiber-filled polymer. If a civilian-legal multi-emitter aiming laser ever hits the market, would the price-to-performance justify it over a single-spectrum visible or IR setup?
LP5X-P by the numbers:
- Visible laser output: 26 mW
- Operating temperature: -32 to +71°C
- Weight: 185 grams
- Battery: single CR123A
- IP rating: IP68
- Rail mount: MIL-STD-1913 / STANAG 4694
- Emitters: visible pointer, IR pointer, adjustable IR illuminator, VCSEL IR flood (all co-aligned)
- Availability: Law enforcement and military sales only
Find out more here: https://coltoptics.com/product/laser/lp5x-p/Â
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If this was available to us peons what would it cost?
common CZ civilian please
$2800, per the colt link
Anyone who sells anything LE or military only deserves to be boycotted. Starting now.
"Built in partnership with Brolis Defence..."
Pretty sure Colt just imported this and stuck a 'Colt Optics' sticker on it after Brolis knocked off B.E. Meyers... from the marketing shots, they couldn't even apply the sticker straight.
I don't really understand why they poke the bear by calling things L/E only. There's a microscopic population of L/E that would have ANY use for a 'high power' IR laser. The ones that need that kind of thing have avenues to acquire them. Calling something L/E only implies that every cop in the country is throwing these things on their rifles while everyone else has to go without. Silly marketing.
Special toys for "special" boys.
Neat. A company known for making mid tier guns and bottom tier optics is trying to make lams. I am sure this is not markedly worse than even a lowly holosun iris