I'm probably the only player to use binocular when playing recon
I still think that they are not useful enough.
I think that equip a range finder and/or an auto-ping (the ping can last longer) on them could be an idea
I dont know how to balance it but for the moment it's only zoom go brrr
(I also discovered that the chief class had the soflam binocular I don't know if you can get it curently in game but it pretty much partially does what I'm talking about)