Grant Jordan

Intensity Optics is a subsidiary business of Federal, which is a key US ammunition manufacturer. Federal is owned and controlled by ATK, an worldwide aerospace and defense holding business. ATK owns a number of sporting goods brand names and companies such as Federal Ammunition, Speer, Champion, and Eagle Industries to name a few. In addition to the Intensity Optics line, ATK also owns the Simmons and Weaver Optics brand names of rifle scopes.

During the ravages of the second world war, Zeiss furnished many of the optical merchandise employed by the German military - including submarine periscopes, binoculars, and lastly riflescopes. A pair of Zeiss field glasses were famously carried by the infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and several hundreds of WWII enthusiasts claim to possess that very set of field glasses.

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