Goggle combines night vision, thermal sight

[unhappycamper]

The Army has fielded about 200 new Enhanced Night Vision Goggles, shown in use Feb. 3 at Fort Belvoir, Va., and it is scheduled to field them to the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y., by the end of the month.


Goggle combines night vision, thermal sight
By Matthew Cox - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Feb 21, 2009 9:50:31 EST

The Army is fielding a more versatile night-vision goggle designed to help soldiers see more clearly inside the darkest caves or in the shadows of brightly lit city blocks.

The helmet-mounted Enhanced Night Vision Goggle fuses the best parts of the Army’s current-issue NVG and lightweight thermal sight into a compact device, Program Executive Office Soldier officials say.

“I think it is going to be a dramatic improvement in situational awareness,” said Lt. Col. Joseph Capobianco, product manager for Soldier Sensors and Lasers.

The AN/PSQ-20 ENVG will work “in any environment where you have absolutely no starlight,” he said, such as a cave, an overcast night or “types of obscurations” such as smoke or dust storms.

It does this by allowing the soldier to use the image intensification of an NVG and the heat-sensing, forward-looking infrared of a thermal imager at the same time.


Rest of article at: http://armytimes.com/news/2009/02/army_envg_022109w/%2e



uhc comment: I wonder how much these things cost. . . I just spent five minutes searching for some indication of the $$$ involved.