Re: night vision

From Wear-Hard Mailing list Archive (WH) Maintained by R. Paul McCarty

yes and millions / billions of dollars spent, make something a common 
soldier would use...again i'm no special forceces handicaped person...i 
just care for more spending on conventional arms.  Now when you friend 
bubba the gungho specforce3s dork, asks for a light night vision system, 
yawn and say hey bro that money was spent on that cough/spit-22 project
dude a better system, call you congressmen.

On Tue, 23 May 2006, kill-9 wrote:

> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:59:02 -0400 From: kill-9 <> 
> Reply-To: Wearable Hardware Discussion List <> To: 
>  Subject: Re: [Wear-Hard] night vision

> 
> You'll notice however that those robotic attack platforms, and anything 
> similar, use HUGE optics. Which is why I imagine they would become 
> almost useless if shot in those huge EYES. Millions of dollars or not, 
> light gathering optical systems are still BIG. Alex
>
> Quoting jon sable <>:
>
>> 
>> i joined this group to get covert computing gear.
>> 
>> 
>> years later, billions of dollars spent
>> 
>> 
>> still our armed forces go out with some 80s night vision crap
>> 
>> 
>> prove me wrong.
>> 
>> 
>> you put that crap on and walk around at night.
>> 
>> 
>> we can spend billions on some robotic attack platform,  yet
>> constructing a light night vision system is complicated?
>> 
>> yeah i guess there are complications dealing with the optics,   but
>> still gime a break.   yeah send your drone robotic assisin bot my way.
>> 
>> BCGs?
>> 
>> 
>> Birth control glasses,    an old joke about eyeglasses,  yet they are
>> light weight and functional.
>> 
>> now with all this darpa spending one would expect some progress.
>> 
>> maybe if congress persons wear our current best night vision system for
>> a few hours per day,   or full time!
>> 
>> 
>> just venting.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards.
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