Night vision or thermal?
>>2879398my natural night vision
Thermal makes it like Predator
>>2879398you can have both now
>>2879398Thermal is the far superior technology, but back when I was in the army thermal was mounted to a truck, nvg was mounted to your helmet. If you can put a good thermal on your rifle and carry it around now it wins every time. To even make nvgs halfway useful you need to put an infrared laser flashlight on the end of your m4.
>>2879405how many bjs did you have to give when you were in the army
night vision is for navigating in the dark. thermal is for seeing living creatures in the dark.
>>2879427They were all optional.
>>2879398night vision requires ambient light or another light source. So if the moon is out, lots of stars it easier to see. Thermal does not need any light so if it new moon, fully over cast, darkest night you can still easily thermal.
Neither, both are demonic technologies.
>>2879629these demons of yours, are they in the room with you right now?
>>2879631NTA but yes they are, always.
>>2879398I used on of those Pulsar scopes once to shoot hogs, insane stuff, you can see a mouse from a mile away and it even auto records everything, too bad they're expensive as hell.
>>2879557Rain really fucks thermal though. At least the thermal scopes i have, which are admittedly five to ten years old. But based on my understanding of the technology, that shouldn't really matter. The main improvement I've seen on thermals is their compactness. You have thermals the size and shape of reddot sight now.
>>2879557you can't really navigate and conduct movements with thermal at alland from a tactical point of view, you can't positively identify targets at ranges that you can with night vision
>>2879398thermalyou can tell which car out of 10000 just parked from 1000ft away.you can tell a car HAD been parked until a few minutes ago, and narrow down at least WTF it wasn't from the pattern of the tire heat markers.you can tell were someone was sitting before you showed up.you can tell if a house is "activated" or not.
>>2880937Why do you care so much about parking
>>2879398passive night vision if you have money/are black and in the army
If you have like like 15k to spend you can get NVGs plus a clip-on thermal imager. They seem so cool bros I wish I would win the lottery
>>2879398I used both and nothing beats thermal if you need to spot something that is alive. especially today,it's not like what they had 20years ago. Every hunter i know changed nv for thermal. I could spot rats 500m away, nv can do 5m. It all depends what you want to do. And if you use nv then it's good to have a infrared torch. But not in a mil. setting, if the enemy has nv, you swinging your ir torch around is a big no no.
>>2880937Are you the fucker handing out parking tickets in my city
is there a nice solution for thermal or night vision for night hiking? or is it uncomfortable / pain in the ass?i want to get one but i cant tell how shitty the cheaper ones are
>>2879398Thermal, unless you can afford white phosphorus. A majority of cheap NVG's are just IR.>>2879405IR's super easy to pick up if your using it as a light. >>2880256>Rain really fucks thermal though.The same goes for broad daylight (where inverted works a bit better). If your hunting, IR's far more reasonable as it's cheaper and the animals don't care your pumping the forest full of IR to see them.
>>2879398Two eyes. Two monoculars. Get the benefits of both.
I dont like how low resolution all the non stupidly expensive thermal gear is. Good for short distances and big targets but anything small is just a few blurry pixels on your screen and you dont know what the fuck you are watching.
>>2879398Night vision, specifically analogue types. Digital thermals and nvg dont have refresh rates good enough to consistently wear and operate with. On a rifle though, thermals all day.
>>2879557Gen 3 works fine under some of the darkest conditions. Theres always enough light to navigate.
>>2879398Unironically both. Walking/navigating with thermals only is both dangerous and difficult to do but seeing anything worth looking at with NVGs (like animals) is nearly impossible even if they are close to you.t. Bridged nods and HMT hiking enthusiast.https://youtu.be/hPQ1NrlLHP4?is=JWY-n1pC5zD0E8wQ>>2881650During all the months that aren't winter I need a helmet mounted IR light for navigation because the supplemental moon light can't penetrate the canopy enough to be useful.
>>2880937unfathomably based parking-lot-prowler
>>2882445you must have a really garbo tube
>>2882501Its a gen 3 L3 Harris and I live out in the boonies where there is no ambient light.
