Wireless Technology Brings Crosshair From Thermal Sights to Night Vision Goggle Display
[Kris Osborn]
Kris Osborn
Wednesday at 11:14 PM
The U.S. Army plans to connect night vision to weapons sights and have this technology operational by 2018.
The Army has started building an emerging technology connecting soldier night-vision goggles to thermal weapons sights, allowing soldiers in combat to more quickly identify and destroy enemy targets, service officials said.
Army officials told Scout Warrior that Low-Rate Initial Production of the technology, called Rapid Target Acquisition, began in recent months. The system is slated to be operational in combat by 2018.
Rapid Target Acquisition merges two separate Army developmental efforts to engineer, deliver and combine new, upgraded night vision goggles, called Enhanced Night Vision Goggle III, or ENVG III, with next-generation thermal weapons sights --called Family of Weapons Sights – Individual, or FWS-I, Army officials said.
http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1670007-army-links-m4-thermal-sights-to-night-vision
