New Product Highlight: Aimpoint COA

Hold onto your optic adapter plates, folks. Aimpoint just unveiled a new pistol red dot with its very own footprint!

The Aimpoint COA arrives with the A-CUT mounting footprint and a collaboration with Glock to start 2025 off with a bang.

Aimpoint COA Specs & Features

Specs

• Construction: Enclosed emitter
• Reticle: 3.5-MOA red dot
• Window Size: 0.59″ x 0.59″
• Footprint: A-CUT
• Brightness Settings: 12 (1-4 are night vision-compatible)
• Battery: CR2032
• Battery Run Time: 5 years
• Weight: 1.7 oz (with battery)

Features

• All-new A-CUT mounting footprint
• Slim, EDC-friendly profile
• Direct-mounts to select new Glock slides

So, what’s this new optic all about?

Aimpoint describes the COA as a slimmer, more EDC-friendly optic that caters to concealed carry pistols better than the blocky ACRO P-2.

At the same time, it touts the same reliability and durability we’ve come to expect from Aimpoint. The COA is submersible to depths of 25 meters. You can expect five years of battery life without turning the optic off, and you can replace the CR 2032 battery without removing the optic from the slide.

Enclosed emitter optics tend to be very blocky, but this one sits low enough in the A-CUT Glock slides to allow co-witnessing with factory sights.

It’s an all-new design that uses contours on the slide and a pair of screws at the rear of the optic to hold it in place.

Unlike many optics, the COA has T10 Torx screws to adjust the reticle vertically and horizontally. I’m a Torx fan but this does mean you can’t make quick adjustments in the field with a multitool or piece of spent brass. My advice? Follow the torque specs and witness mark all your screws so you know if anything goes awry.  

Optic manufacturers can’t roll out a new mounting footprint on their own because there would be nothing to mount it to. This product launch is a collaboration with Glock, with five Glock models redesigned for the COA to mount directly to the slide.

Options include the Glock 19, Glock 45, Glock 47, Glock 48, and Glock 43X. Take your pick!

Naturally, Glock set up its own landing page where you can see all the new models built around the Aimpoint COA. Check them out here.

Aimpoint hasn’t listed pricing for the COA yet. It’s scheduled to become available through Glock in limited numbers starting January 20, and you can only get it with a pistol — it’s not going to be available individually just yet (and there’s nowhere else to mount it).

Let’s hear your prediction. How much do you think it will cost? Would you buy one for your current EDC if you could?

What do you think of the new Aimpoint COA? Let us know below. For more duty optics, check out our guide to the Best Enclosed Emitter Pistol Optics.