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German Infrared Night-Vision Devices WW2
- sonium 11y agoThe IR source is easy, but how whould they have done the imaging? All IR sensors I know are semiconductor based, clearly not a option at this time.
- polotics 11y agoThis is an interesting subject. Lead Sulphide, according to: http://antonirogalski.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/History-of-infrared-detectors.pdf http://antonirogalski.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/History...
- madaxe_again 11y agoPhotomultiplier, at a wild guess - the technology was perfected by '37. No semiconductors needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomultiplier#First_photomultiplier.2C_single-stage_.28early_1934.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomultiplier#First_photomul...
- tiatia 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zielger%C3%A4t_1229 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zielger%C3%A4t_1229
- jbattle 11y agoI wonder why they put these on assault rifles rather than a high precision rifle - seems like an odd fit but I'm sure they knew what they were doing
- IE6 11y agoI think the story of German WWII tactics and decisions on how to use novel technologies is that no they did not.
- vacri 11y agoWhat are you talking about? The Germans surprised everyone with their mastery of novel technologies - it's how they took over the continent. This idea that they were hapless bozos when it came to capitalising on new tech is just plain weird. People look at novel tech like IR and say "ha, fools!" but for some reason ignore novel tech like stuka bombers.
- tiatia 11y agoThey used their technology wrong. Jet engines? Build a bomber! Rockets? Instead of using the "Waterfall", a design on which all post-WW2 anti Aircraft missiles were based on to bring down enemy airplanes and bombers, they build the V2.