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The Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B) is designed by soldiers for soldiers. Views from the new Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular Lancer Brigade/Twitter
The U.S. Army s troops won t have any issues seeing in the dark, through thick mist, or in obscure settings thanks to its new night-vision goggles. The Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B) goggles are a clear creation of how the Army is embracing modernization.
And quite frankly, as the Lancer Brigade said on Twitter, You ve never seen night vision like this!
Instead of the typical laser-green monochrome you d expect to associate with night-vision goggles, the ENVG-B ones offer views that would fit right into a futuristic video game. Clear neon white outlines of people and artillery, detailed trees and brush, bright light blue figures, and tactical information are all displayed right in front of the soldier s eyes.
Halo.
The 45-second video tweeted by Lancer Brigade displayed the tech’s sharp night vision image, allowing soldiers to fire at targets without exposing themselves to enemy fire.
The goggles can also pick out enemies in the dark regardless of weather conditions due to a high-resolution display and embedded soldier wireless personal area network.
“It has lots of settings to where they can adjust whether they want more white phosphor or more thermals,” Sgt.
William Williams of 3BCT, 2-506, 101st Airborne said. “So in situations where you’re not getting a lot of ambient light. you can crank the thermal up and really see anything that picks up heat or puts off a heat signal.”
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May 1, 2021 at 5:20 am
When you think of night-vision goggles, you probably imagine the pitch black of night being illuminated in a sea of green that helps improve visibility. That’s ancient technology now as the US Army’s Lancer Brigade of Joint Base Lewis–McChord demonstrates what soldiers see through the military’s latest and greatest night vision goggles. The Predator would be jealous.
Known as the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular or ENVG-B, for short the new goggles were designed to vastly improve a soldier’s ability to not only see what is going on all around them under any lighting conditions but to also be able to accurately discern what they’re seeing. That was the biggest problem with traditional night vision goggles. The old ones worked by converting the photons gathered in low-light light settings into electrons that were amplified as they passed through a vacuum tube and eventually lit up a phosphor-coated screen th