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ENVG
The AN/PSQ-20 Enhanced Night Vision Goggle (ENVG) is a third-generation passive monocular night vision device developed for the United States Armed Forces by ITT Exelis. It fuses image-intensifying and thermal-imaging technologies, enabling vision in conditions with very little light. The two methods can be used simultaneously or individually. The ENVG was selected by the US Army's Program Executive Office Soldier (PEO Soldier) as a supporting device for the Future Force Warrior program in 2004, and is intended to replace the older AN/PVS-7 and AN/PVS-14 systems. Although more expensive and heavier than previous models, US Special Forces began using the goggles in 2008 and the US Army's 10th Mountain Division began fielding the AN/PSQ-20 in 2009. Improvements to the goggles have been attempted to make them lighter, as well as enabling the transmission of digital images to and from the battlefield. In accordance with the Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), the " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night-vision Device
A night-vision device (NVD), also known as a night optical/observation device (NOD) or night-vision goggle (NVG), is an Optoelectronics, optoelectronic device that allows visualization of images in low levels of light, improving the user's night vision. The device enhances Available light, ambient visible light and converts Infrared#Regions within the infrared, near-infrared light into visible light which can then be seen by humans; this is known as I2 (Image intensifier, image intensification). By comparison, viewing of infrared thermal radiation is referred to as Thermography, thermal imaging and operates in a different section of the infrared spectrum. A night vision device usually consists of an image intensifier tube, a protective housing, and an optional mounting system. Many NVDs also include a protective sacrificial lens, mounted over the front/Objective (optics), objective lens to prevent damage by environmental hazards, while some incorporat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Vision Device
A night-vision device (NVD), also known as a night optical/observation device (NOD) or night-vision goggle (NVG), is an optoelectronic device that allows visualization of images in low levels of light, improving the user's night vision. The device enhances ambient visible light and converts near-infrared light into visible light which can then be seen by humans; this is known as I2 ( image intensification). By comparison, viewing of infrared thermal radiation is referred to as thermal imaging and operates in a different section of the infrared spectrum. A night vision device usually consists of an image intensifier tube, a protective housing, and an optional mounting system. Many NVDs also include a protective sacrificial lens, mounted over the front/ objective lens to prevent damage by environmental hazards, while some incorporate telescopic lens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PEO AN PSQ-20
PEO may stand for: * Parking enforcement officer, an official who issues parking tickets * Plasma electrolytic oxidation, a surface-treatment process for metals * Polyethylene oxide, alternate name for Polyethylene glycol, a polymer * Old Persian, ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 language code peo * Pancyprian Federation of Labour, an umbrella organization for trade unions in Cyprus (, ) * P.E.O. Sisterhood, an international women's organization with headquarters in North America * Professional employer organization, a service provider of outsourced human resource management * Professional Engineers Ontario, professional and regulatory organization for engineers in Ontario, Canada * Program executive officer, an individual, civilian or military, responsible for large scale U.S. military acquisitions * Programs Evaluation Office The Programs Evaluation Office was a covert paramilitary mission to the Kingdom of Laos, established on 13 December 1955 by the United States Department of Defen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joint Electronics Type Designation System
The Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), which was previously known as the Joint Army-Navy Nomenclature System (AN System. JAN) and the Joint Communications-Electronics Nomenclature System, is a method developed by the U.S. War Department during World War II for assigning an unclassified designator to electronic equipment. In 1957, the JETDS was formalized in MIL-STD-196. Computer software and commercial unmodified electronics for which the manufacturer maintains design control are not covered. Applicability Electronic material, from a military point of view, generally includes those electronic devices employed in data processing, detection and tracking (underwater, sea, land-based, air and space), recognition and identification, communications, aids to navigation, weapons control and evaluation, flight control, and electronics countermeasures. The JETDS applies to equipment throughout the DoD and select NATO allies today. Nomenclature is assigned to: * Electronic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M141 Bunker Defeat Munition
The M141 bunker defeat munition (BDM) is a disposable single-shot, shoulder-launched weapon, shoulder-fired rocket launcher designed to defeat hardened structures. It is a modification of the United States Marine Corps Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon, Mk 153 shoulder-launched multipurpose assault weapon (SMAW) and is also called the SMAW-D (where ''D'' is for ''disposable''). It was designed to fill the void in the United States Army inventory of a "bunker buster" weapon. Design The SMAW-D operates on the principle that the recoil created by launching the rocket is counteracted by a "backblast" of gases fired from the rear of the weapon. This makes the SMAW-D inherently dangerous, especially in confined, urban areas, as is the case with all weapons of this design. The M141 has two configurations: a carry mode in which the launcher is long, and a ready to fire mode in which the launcher is extended to its full length of . The warhead is the same high-explos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
