Posted on 04/29/2021 7:44:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Second Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, also known as the Lancer Brigade, recently showed off the night vision capabilities of the Enhanced Night Visions Goggle-Binoculars (ENVG-B) on Twitter...
The goggles, which the Army developed with L3 Warrior Systems, are designed to provide a sharper night vision image than previous-generation goggles. The dual-tube setup provides a larger field of view than earlier goggles, leading to greater situational awareness and increased depth perception.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
Is that image for real?
It looks like someone went in photoshop and filtered for emboss->edge detection and sepia
There’s a video at the link. Doesn’t look like any video game I’m familiar with.
Awesome! Brilliant!
The night vission devices I used made the world look like a 1940/50s TV picture.
The PLAN will have them inside of a year.
Sorry. “The PLA will have them inside of a year.”
Kinda like TRON.
And then added the “plastic wrap” filter for kicks.
It’s racist.
I suspect that this is probably much lower quality than what they actually see.
These are hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2f9ocLSnuU
So you can watch the woods when you put Hrafi and company outside?
I used to worry about owls when my little guy went outside, until he got big enough. Then it was the deer. Nasty frigging giant rats with attitude!
I’ve got a 1st Gen. hand held scope that is tolerable in an open field for about 100 yards. Worthless in the woods though.
Buddy has a 2nd Gen set of Russian googles that are phenomenally better. We used them beach camping one night to find a guy at the beach who wandered up into the dunes and passed out drunk.
The Army Acquisition Support Center article (link in the Popular Mechanics article) reports that this is actually a fused night vision and thermal imaging device. So the user is already in a video vs enhanced direct view situation. With advances in CPU technology, adding post-imaging edge enhancement is a logical next step.
With the emphasis on wireless linking, questions arise:
1. Anti-jamming/hacking protections
2. Software update management
3. Electronic signature (emission) management/masking
The wireless employment mirrors current civil-side Bluetooth practice and certainly enhances mobility. However, there may be situations where being physically connected may be necessary/advantageous. Probably not that often, but I hope the developers retained it as a user option.
Among other things, yes...the dogs.
:D
Several years ago, while a pack of Ibizan Hounds and a Dobe were standing right there, a huge Golden Eagle came down in the fastest spiral you can imagine, after my little Portuguese Podengo Medio.
I had been stupidly staring up at the strange spot in the sky, from my perch on the back porch, when I realized what was happening.
[I *thought* it was just a chicken hawk]
I bolted off the porch, let out a weird primal scream that made the usually “Oh screw you” Ibizans actually listen and run for the open back door, while I raced across the yard to where my oblivious PPM stood, sniffing dandelions.
[weird how a scene is burned into your memory]
I grabbed her up, on the fly and was carrying her clutched against my chest, trying to run back to the door myself.
That damn bird grabbed onto *me* with its talons and started flopping me about the head and shoulders with its wings, trying to make me drop its “meal”.
That had to be the longest hundred feet I’ve ever ran.
As I got on the porch it finally let go of me.
It hung around for a week, after that, waiting for another chance.
But I was waiting, too.
Thankfully, eventually it left.
I still watch out for such things, though.
{{{shudder}}}
Today’s currently deployed soldiers spend a lot more time playing video games than they do in combat.
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