Benefits, Features & Claims of Tactical Flashlights

We have noticed what happens when you are starting to compare a traditional, run-of-the-mill department store flashlight with a military inspired tactical flashlight? In one word, overwhelm.

Let’s begin to breakdown the barriers on all the fancy high profiled tactical LED flashlights and effectively elaborate on the features, benefits and claims we see circulating these tactical commodities.

Where do we start – how it’s perceived is about like you getting a bionic upgrade to your own body. These acclaimed military inspired properties and core characteristics you didn’t even know flashlights were capable of having are causing quite a stir for several survival preparation enthusiasts, self-defense teachers, and always the gotta have extra brightness and high-power specialists much like ourselves.

While many of the most popular high-performance tactical LED flashlights promote themselves as a truly “tactical” (which implies it is useful for military actions) flashlight, there are a few key properties and essential qualities these highly-sought, higher-end flashlights have.

So what happens when you take your old incandescent flashlight and give it a bionic upgrade into a military-grade LED flashlight? The result is a tactical flashlight. As mentioned, “tactical” implies “useful for military action” and if you consider self-defense to fall into that category than yes, these flashlights are tactical. You see, the tactical flashlight has features which make it useful not only as a light source but also as a self-defense mechanism and if you think about it: a weapon as well.

Here are those features:

1. A High/Medium/Low/Strobe/SOS function modes
2. A jagged, beveled edge for an emergency self defense weapon
3. ultra tough, compact and lightweight
4. rechargeable double AA / triple AAA batteries

Here are those benefits:

1. XPE LED light bulbs and lumen emitters
2. State of the art adjustable, telescopic focusing beam lighting technology
3. Pure aircraft-grade aluminum or machined stainless steel
4. 1x, 250x, 500x , 1000x and 2000x zoom functionality

Here are those claims:

1. multiple output vs outdoor safety modes
2. ultra clear glass lens with anti-reflective coating
3. 100,000 hours of lamp life
4. anti-roll, slip-resistant body design roughly 2″ x 6″ inch size dimensions
5. waterproof casing up to 6.5′ feet deep for max 30 minutes submersion

What can you do with a strobe besides use it to simulate a disco? Plenty of damage, according to the makers of these flashlights! Let’s say someone comes at you in the dark- his eyes are adjusted to seeing in the dark, with pupils dilated. Zap him with that powerful strobe and it’s like burning out his cornea. He’s blinded, disoriented, and there’s your chance to escape or attache, whichever your preference for survival happens to be.

Review of the Emergency Self-Defense Weapon

The end of the flashlight with the bulb in it is encased in jagged edges. These edges come in handy for breaking glass…or whatever needs cracking depending on your circumstances.

The compact size and the ultra light weight.

Tactical military grade flashlights by definition are small and light. Measuring around 5 inches long, they are easy to carry around. That means you can have them with you at all times.

Adding to that ever-ready quality is the very light weight. These flashlights run on just two AA betteries but deliver a blinding 700 lumens of light. Plus, they use LED bulbs, which make afor a much smaller tool. LED is great because it uses far less energy, making a smaller battery possible but at the same time it puts out more light.