The northern compass is consists of a metal housing and a plastic back, it won t freeze up below zero temps. The front is a glass sighting window with a sighting line and the back carved slope scale. The dimensions of the magnetic compass is 3.35 x 2.48 x 1.2 .
The sighting compass has a bubble balance point at the right bottom corner, it can help put compass in leveled ground or surface. The military compass also has aiming assistant holes, so that to aim to far away objects, than compare in the map to locate yourself.
The sighting lens that clearly shows the azimut, and the azimuth can be read either from top or through eyepiece that reads the edge markings.
The compass interface glows in the dark, so even when night falls, you can still soldier on,which does not depend on it is exposed to light or not.
The compass comes with a durable OD canvas with two ways to hang it from your belt, and there s a lanyard on the compass itself if you re looking for some post apocalyptic bling for your neck.