Owning Even More Of The Night [Color Night Vision Goggles]

Armed Forces Journal International ^ | August 2002 | John G. Roos

[vannrox]

Check out the link that I just listed. You'll love it.

[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.

[ConservativeLawyer]

Please add me to your Military Ping List.

Thanks!

[Orion]

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[Orion]

Just curious when the gov't will add additional penalties for those caught committing a crime while in possession of one of these things. After all, it would give you an advantge in escaping authorities over if you didnt' have them.

[adx]

Just curious when the gov't will add additional penalties for those caught committing a crime while in possession of one of these things. After all, it would give you an advantge in escaping authorities over if you didnt' have them.

Agreed. There's no way us serfs can get these.

[archy]

We had a roof-mounted thermal viewer on one of our airport security vans, very useful for spotting cargo bay fires [Memphis is the FedEx hub, among others] and brake shoe/tire fires of aircraft landing *code three* with major maintenance difficulties. But the handheld units are new to me, though all such items are shrinking in size, weight and power requirements as the state-of-the-art for the electronics industry advances.

I'm pretty happy with the NVGs I have and the titanium-bodied nightscope I've set up on an AK-type rifle, both of whose range and bulk coincide neatly. But theres a lot to be said for such optics on a sound-suppressed .22 semiauto rifle as well.

[archy]

do you...know of any good long-eye-relief models that can handle the increased recoil of a magnum handgun (.454 Casull)? PVS-14

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PVS-14 info

[archy]

do you...know of any good long-eye-relief models that can handle the increased recoil of a magnum handgun (.454 Casull)?

I suspect you might be better off finding a red dot sight that's to your liking and using it with head-mounted night vision goggles, probably a monocular type such as the PVS-7 or PVS-14 units now in military use. That's the approach taken by the military special operators using the big SOCOM .45 pistol, which nears the size and weight of your Casull earschplittenloudenboomer, and there have been excellent results reported with snipers using their regular 10X rifle scopes with the monocular NVDs as well.

PVS-14

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PVS-14 info

[Cobra Scott]

Wow, they have come a long ways. Thanks for the links!

I have a russkie 1st gen set of binocs (??) but they were pretty much useless with a conventional scope or open sights at night. I need to get some new gear and see how well it works by starlight/moonlight.

One more question, will I be able to see the side of a large barn at 20 feet? I seem to have trouble with that even in the daytime, LOL!