Any one have any experiance with the generation 2 or 3 wearable night vision goggles??? I've got an old russian mil. surplus gen 1 monocular scope that would not work atall for riding.....Thanks....

 

Have a buddy that just got out of the Marines. He said the 3rd generation scopes they were using were bright enough to see with on night with no moon for quite a ways, and on a cloudy, moonless night well enough to walk around with & see fairly well. His main complaint was that they goof up your depth perception so you don't know how deep a hole is & such. Got to peek thru a pair & WOW they were all I hoped they would be, but didn't get to walk around with them or anything.
Farmr

 

I don't remember what units we were using when I was in the military, but I remember getting headaches wearing them more than about 10 minutes at a time. And I accidently looked at a car's headlights once and couldn't see for a bit! Good luck with this adventure but be careful.

 

I'm in the military now, and thats not a good idea. Everything everyone said is exactly right. No depth perception, gives you a headache, and binded when you do see a light source. Soldiers use them for driving very little, and only at about 15mph. Anything more would be to dangerous.

Bruce L. Hall
Sergeant First Class
United States Army

 

RdrD

Glad to hear that there are other current and former military members in the forum. As for the goggles, we used them in the Army in Desert Storm quite frequently. I would not recommend them for the following reasons.

1. Would be tough to wear with a helment
2. No depth perception
3. Any bright light source will be blinding in the the goggles. A tail light or breaklight from another quad will about blind you.
4. Night vision goggles amplify available light. If its very dark out (cloudy, raining). They don't work worth a crap. This was not a hinderance in the desert areas, there was rarely any clouds. We relied more on the thermal night sight system on the Bradley for night vision and travel. But at a price of well over $100,000, not really an option.

When we used them in the Army, we drove very slow and had a 26 ton Bradley that would go over about anything. Stick to headlights. Much simplier.