Friday, July 24, 2015

New Wireless Sight Offers Leap-Ahead for Night Marksmanship

The U.S. Army is working on a new weapon sight that will arm soldiers with a breakthrough technology for engaging enemy targets at night, Army engineers said. In three years, the Army hopes to start fielding the Family of Weapon Sights-Individual, a new lightweight thermal weapon sight that is designed to communicate wirelessly with the service's latest Enhanced Night Vision Goggle (ENVG).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Main problem I see with this: glioblastomas where the wireless transceiver is mounted in the helmet - just like cell phone users experience. Not that he VA will give a $hit about treating those when they start appearing in vets. The denial will be: "Not service connected", just as cell phone manufacturers state in response to medical claims of their customers now.
-MM

Backwoods Engineer said...

" glioblastomas where the wireless transceiver is mounted in the helmet - just like cell phone users experience."

Oh dear.

You know people who actually understand this stuff - wireless RF engineers like me, who have to give an account to the government for the radiative characteristics of anything we design -- just snort in derision at this kind of accusation, right? There is NO KNOWN CONNECTION between sores and low-level RF fields. None.