Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
4 was the best. Atlas mechs are a bitch move.
Fight me!
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You’ll know me. I’m the assclown hiding in the back missile boating in the Catapult…
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4 was the best. Atlas mechs are a bitch move.
Fight me!
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Saw it in the theater as a kid and it blew me away.
man. You are a heck of a lot younger than I thought you were, if you were a kid when this came out in 1982. I thought you were close to retirement.
OPSEC???
Can see all the OPSEC folks going cray cray right about now
Fusion goggles were one of my wife’s programs 16 years ago… ( these are fusion). The intensifier with thermal edge highlights (this image) was about that time. FGE PSQ-36. Obviously the image has improved a lot since then, but this is nothing new
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Yeah, but what does it weigh?
Not much more than traditional PVS-14’s
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Yeah, if I could have the same performance as the latest white phosphor tubes in a lighter goggle, I'd be all over it. All this augmentation is just going to lead to scene interpretation issues for people working in stressful and time compressed environments.
Yeah, if I could have the same performance as the latest white phosphor tubes in a lighter goggle, I'd be all over it. All this augmentation is just going to lead to scene interpretation issues for people working in stressful and time compressed environments.
The 4 tubes were tested and specifically dropped due entirely to weight issues after the eval team fully admitted to the greater field of viewing and situation awareness.
The argument was the gain wasn’t worth both the short term mission fatigue increase and the long term health related impacts.
The 4 tubes were tested and specifically dropped due entirely to weight issues after the eval team fully admitted to the greater field of viewing and situation awareness.
The argument was the gain wasn’t worth both the short term mission fatigue increase and the long term health related impacts.
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Lol.. pnvgs were her other program. They accidentally got “outed” in Blackhawk down… so the owner of the company took the entire company to see the movie.
Anyways, WP is kind of the EOL for traditional tube designs. There’s some interesting application tech coming online ( white phosphor is hard to work with, reacts badly to the environment if there’s too much moisture, can be dangerous for the facility) The current issue with digital being response and delay time being greater than 115ms, causing motion sickness issues. You may see some 4 and 6 lens setups with nearly 180deg. Field of view soon- using almost a reverse image stabilization in that a 3d wide field of view is generated, but only 135 degrees presented so the user can look around inside the image faster than the scene actually updates. Not sure if that makes sense. Anyways, much much lighter.
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My last unit had enough WPs that it was an expectation to always have them while deployed and at least have them for the front seats in a home environment.
I could still fly in Greens no issue, but I’m the lowest of the low or in the real painful contrasts and shadows like flying in aggressive terrain with a low angle for light source it was noticeably better.
Still after spending a decade flying with FLIR on a head tracking helmet mounted display, goggles suck. Give me fixed sensors and a computer that can fuse images together ala F-35. The hell with goggles and all their problems.
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The OPSEC comes from commercial security measures in sales of the systems. It’s why the FBI and other agencies get real interested in packages from certain manufacturers routing to certain locations.
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Stole this from someone else but may apply hereView attachment 59977
Yeah, if I could have the same performance as the latest white phosphor tubes in a lighter goggle, I'd be all over it. All this augmentation is just going to lead to scene interpretation issues for people working in stressful and time compressed environments.