This is obviously worthless against radar detection or thermal vision, but useful against low tech visual shooting (that probably has a very low share success anyway). So what’s the actual prevalence in night vision tech? Does (usually digitally based) low-light amplification make up a big enough share that this is not just another coping mechanism?
Nightvision equipment is very common these days, I would expect a huge number of Ukrainian soldiers have it available at this point. Digital nightvision sucks though and isn’t really used for military applications, it’s still pretty much all analog.
They have night vision and ir clipons which are fucking radical and you aught to hope you’re never on the other side of. Probably not everyone but one or two per squad seems legit.
@Ooops@LaFinlandia The paint will certainly make detection harder. Night vision is impressive, yet still is worse than daylight in every way.
A narrower field of view, loss of colors, need to manually focus, loss of depth perception*, and increased difficulty in using weapons are all downsides. Black paint against a night sky won’t make any of those better.
Interesting question here:
This is obviously worthless against radar detection or thermal vision, but useful against low tech visual shooting (that probably has a very low share success anyway). So what’s the actual prevalence in night vision tech? Does (usually digitally based) low-light amplification make up a big enough share that this is not just another coping mechanism?
Nightvision equipment is very common these days, I would expect a huge number of Ukrainian soldiers have it available at this point. Digital nightvision sucks though and isn’t really used for military applications, it’s still pretty much all analog.
They have night vision and ir clipons which are fucking radical and you aught to hope you’re never on the other side of. Probably not everyone but one or two per squad seems legit.
https://youtu.be/7TLLXOpknd8?si=TZVv_ClbVOyr9-TA
@Ooops @LaFinlandia The paint will certainly make detection harder. Night vision is impressive, yet still is worse than daylight in every way.
A narrower field of view, loss of colors, need to manually focus, loss of depth perception*, and increased difficulty in using weapons are all downsides. Black paint against a night sky won’t make any of those better.
(*can vary based on the device/number of tubes)
I’m honestly a little surprised that there aren’t like “emp rifles” or something that can’t just handle this.