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Canada-headquartered Adventure Tactical, which produces safety and signalling beacons for use where positive visual ID is vital, has announced an upgrade to the infra-red (IR) sensor for its next generation of VIP light and Trilobyte beacon products that significantly increases the range of detection and early warning for their users.

The company made the announcement on 5 May 2025 on the eve of the SOF Week 2025 exhibition in Tampa, Florida, which the company is attending.

Adventure Tactical has been designing and manufacturing highly durable, easy-to-use and often bespoke safety lights and signalling beacons for the US military, NATO, global security forces and extreme adventurers for over 30 years. Explaining the rationale for the IR sensor upgrade, the company explained that it had identified “a need for users to have increased protection from a wider array of laser rangefinder and IR detection devices that have become far more prevalent, when facing an asymmetric threat”.

The IR sensor upgrade, combined with other technologies, ensures that the company’s next generation of VIP light and Trilobyte beacon products offer the widest possible range of early warning and detection capabilities. The upgrade thus helps to protect those operating in the most extreme of environments by increasing their survivability, enhancing command and control and delivering real-time situational awareness.

“Our mission is to deliver an extreme product for extreme situations and central to our ethos is to meet our customers’ unique demands,” Tim Ford, founder and president of Adventure Tactical, was quoted as saying in a company press release. “This IR sensor upgrade is a perfect example of that ethos in action. Frontline troops identified an emerging risk when facing an asymmetric enemy threat that we have responded to by delivering an increased range of detection capability to enhance the users early warning and ability to respond. This enhancement, combined with all our existing innovative technologies and design quality, ensures we offer a cost-effective but superior product compared to alternatives.

“We are very excited to announce this significant upgrade to our long-standing VIP light and Trilobyte beacon products at SOF Week, and we will be incorporating this enhanced capability into our other products as soon as possible,” Ford added. “Our products are designed and manufactured in Canada, Europe and the US. Therefore, we are able to offer export licence- and tariff-free access to our full range of products.”

The Adventure Tactical Trilobyte beacon (left) and VIP light (right) in action. Both have benefitted from an IR sensor upgrade that provides increased protection from a wide array of laser rangefinder and IR detection devices. [Adventure Tactical]