for your 'standard' NVDs (both goggles and mon-ocular type), but would be no issue for vehicles/AFVs/aircraft. We were right - to a point.Īfter spending most of a year on it, we reached the conclusion that the benefit of a U.V mode on top of IR was not worth the increased weight, decreased battery life etc.
The four of us were convinced that the next gen of NVDs would have to use U.V as well. Along with various amounts of electronic processing to test weight of unit, weight/size of battery, duration/s at various levels etc. We played around with light at the high end of the spectrum, with various combos of passive and active goggles back at Uni.
Because night is not dark (not really, more not as bright), and as visilble light has quite a large U.V component, U.V googles would just not be worth the effort. You actually hit the nail on the head there.
