Night-vision technology is rapidly advancing with step changes in performance, user experience, and comfort. These advances are a result of technology for NightVision Devices (NVD) transitioning from being hardware heavy and dependent on legacy processing platforms to software-driven hardware. This has allowed NVD providers to harness the ever-growing processing power of commercial computing platforms. Electro-Optic (EO) devices today make use of edge video processing, have real-time auto target recognition capabilities and utilise deep learning models to deliver night-vision capabilities far in excess of what was available only five years ago. The development of these advanced NVDs for mounted and dismounted soldiers, however, is the realm of only a few companies worldwide, who are able to deliver on the highly challenging and competing demands of size, weight, and power consumption and manufacture these systems in volume. Militaries, however, have been quick to take note of the advanced capabilities now available on NVDs and are planning accordingly.
Capability Overmatch
This story is from the June/July 2021 edition of Asian Military Review.
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