Soldiers assigned to 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division, conduct a platoon live fire using the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binoculars at Joint Base Lewis-McChord April 19, 2021. The ENVG-B arms U.S. Army soldiers with the ability to target, engage, and neutralize threats; enhancing mission success and operator safety.
Video by 1LT Egor Krasnonosenkikh
Tomahawks!
Love seeing this unit continue to see good funding.
Tonahawks!
Lasers and weapon lights should be left at home now and in the future.
Wondering about your thought process on that. If it is concerning giving away your position, shouldn’t the same logic be applied to tracers, muzzle flash, body heat (thermals give that away), vehicles since engines are noisy, and anything else? Do you have a better suggestion for leadership to mark targets or confirm that gunners are shooting at the right target?
Seems to me that signature management is a growing concern against near peer threats. That includes the things you were referring to and RF should also be included. My concern would be giving away a position but it would be a trade off clearly.
Dunno about you, but how do you do it in Vis Light Conditions? Quite easy: You learn to communicate. Tracers = Nogo, Muzzle Flash = Supressor + Heat Cover + lower volume of Assault rifle fire, Thermal Radiation can be covered by coatings of regular fabrics (see Schoeller) or by Materials that radiate in an out-of-band spectrum – its just physics … – and actually scouting vehicles like the Dutch/German/Swedisch used FENNEK is already super silenced as an combustion engine, but as soon as this thing will be available as electric engine, or maybe unmanned device, you wont have this issue either. And as far as I can see the development: The world is going exactly for this direction since quite some time.
“The future is now, old man!”
The video is not working for me on here or DVIDS I’m on IOS
I’m having trouble with it too.