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[Texas_Jarhead]

color would be sweet, no more green-vision

[gcruse]

Neat.

[Prodigal Son]

Sounds pretty cool. A definite improvement on green static.

[Boot Hill]

Color is cool, but for decades now, the push has been to increase low light level sensitivity and for good reason. Lack of sensitivity has been the principle handicap to NVG.

Information about any loss in sensitivity due to going to a color system is precisely what Jones left out of this article. Color vs. threshold sensitivity is a natural consequence of the physics of the sensors involved and that tradeoff can sometimes be quite serious. For example, in the human eye the rods (black & white sensors) are 400 times more sensitive than the cones (color sensors).

I'd be damn sure that I truly needed the color system before I would switch to it. Someone's life may depend on it.

Regards,

Boot Hill

[Johnny Shear]

Can any of you guys give a novice night scope wanna-be owning Freeper a source for purchasing night vison stuff?

Just for hobby purposes...Thanks in advance.

[archy]

There's also a USAF wide-vision unit under development that should give pilots better periphial vision than the present units with which the field of view is considerably limited.

Combine the wider view with the colour display, and they'd really have something.

-archy-/-

[Patriot_carcass]

When viewed through standard NVGs, the orange smoke looked like fog-"just another shade of green."

Who the hell uses smoke to mark a landing zone at night? We have Infared Strobe Lights for that purpose. Green is fine with me. If you cannot figure out what you are looking at, you get on the horn and ask if friendlies are in your area. Not friendly, expedite.

[Orion]

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