NAVAL

Clearview in harshest vision conditions

Ophir’s naval thermal imaging lenses give you the power to see clearly through total darkness and solar glare, as well as light fog and smoke. Our lenses can be used for multiple defense missions, such as navigation, collision avoidance, threat detection, surveillance, and search and rescue missions. The lenses are designed to meet the extreme environmental conditions often experienced at sea, including high humidity, vibrations, saltwater and salt fog.

Ophir’s continuous zoom lenses are available for various FPA formats, including High Definition XGA and SXGA, providing a crisp clean image over full zoom range, MTF close to the diffraction limit and outstanding detection, recognition and identification (DRI) ranges.


With decades of knowledge and experience, having delivered thousands of continuous zoom lenses for defense and naval applications, Ophir has earned its reputation as a world leading one-stop-shop for IR continuous zoom lenses. Our R&D engineering team works in collaboration with our defense customers and leading detector manufacturers, to develop and design optimized optics with unparalleled optical performance quality – for which we are known worldwide.

Products Characteristics

  • Rugged design assures operability in extreme temperatures and the toughest environments
  • Accurate thru-zoom boresight
  • Continuous zoom, with fixed F# maintained through the full zoom range
  • Maintains focus through the zoom
  • Focal length range from 15mm to 275mm
  • High optical performance
  • Available with high durability, low reflection hard carbon (LRHC) AR coating
  • Fast FOV change
  • Compatible with major MWIR & LWIR detectors
  • Diffraction-limited optical design
  • Athermal compensation
  • Pre-set, discrete optical zoom positions
  • CPU controlled via RS 485 or RS 232

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