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I doubt it. It sounds like it has to be “charged” with visible light or something. That means it’s unlikely to be useful some time after sundown, or after being
by withinboredom 5y ago
I doubt it. It sounds like it has to be “charged” with visible light or something. That means it’s unlikely to be useful some time after sundown, or after being used. I don’t see a military springing for that because it would put constraints on the types of operations they can run unless it adds significant upsides (such as an increase in FOV or something). I do see it being more useful for civilians though, who don’t need them at any random point of the night.
- hoseja 5y agoI think you can just back(front?)light it.
- withinboredom 5y agoWouldn’t that defeat the purpose of everyone within 5 miles can see your glowing eyes?
- comradesmith 5y agoFinally, night vision goggles that look like something out of the movies
- Retric 5y agoThe cost difference is unlikely to be relevant for a Mach 4, air to air missile. But, if this is small and cheap enough it might get added to a lot of currently unguided weapons like bombs and RPG’s etc. Militaries constantly make cost vs effectiveness trade offs, and new technology can very easily change the equation.
- HideousKojima 5y agoThe Russian T-90 tank uses infrared emitters as countermeasures, looks like a pair of angry eyes: https://www.army-technology.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/03/Image-2-T-90S-Main-Battle-Tank.jpg https://www.army-technology.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2...
- GekkePrutser 5y agoWouldn't this be a great target for an IR guided missile?
- danuker 5y agoExactly. Missiles would hit the emitters, where the armor is the thickest, giving the crew and tank the best chance of survival.
- dontcare007 5y agoBut if you knew the tank model a computed offset would negate that...
- edrxty 5y agoIt's an old system that iirc they're phasing out. It was probably designed against for older analog systems similar to the the pulsed IR jammer turrets on US helicopters. Focal plane trackers are generally able to defeat these types of decoys through software updates
- dotancohen 5y agoThe commander's tank doesn't have them.
- HideousKojima 5y agoThey supposedly only enable them when they know the tank is being actively targeted by a missile that the countermeasures are effective against. Supposedly.
- myself248 5y agoYou put a filter over the front that blocks your charging wavelength, so it's only used internally.
- downrightmike 5y agoThe charge seems to be using gold's excellent ability to reflect, to concentrate all wave lengths onto a molecule that will then produce visible light.