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Published on: 7/2/2008
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"The T800R has historically been one of our top sellers to the military," said Andrew Cohen, product line manager for Bolle."The no. 1 priority for our tactical goggles is to provide protection from flying objects."
The T800R offers the protection typically required by the military and also has two very useful accessories, Cohen said.One is the prescription adaptor."It looks like a large pair of plastic eyeglasses without the temple arms," he said."So, you place the prescription lens inside the adaptor and then snap them into place behind the outer lens.This is very helpful if you don't wear glasses all the time."Also, the prescription lenses are easily removed for cleaning.
The other accessory is the lens tear-off, a very useful feature in environments such as Iraq and Afghanistan where protection from sand is critical."The lens tear-offs are 12 dye-cut .004-inch polyester sheets—so they're very thin—that protect the lens from abrasions or debris," Cohen said.All 12 tear-offs can be pre-stacked in front of the regular lens (there are little holes in the tear-offs that can be set on the temple pins of the goggles).
"So if, say, sand abrades the lens, or the lens gets covered by debris, you can easily remove the tear-off lens," he said.