I think there should be both options and the choice should be left to the user performing the operation in the field.No need to invest into digital Night vision in the short term. It is simple inferior to analog systems, and Analog night vision is one the biggest deficiency of our armed forces which we need to address asap. Both Motion sickness of screens and millisecond delays are huge disadvantages of Digital night vision tech. A few millisecond is the difference between life and death in battlefield.
Great news! We now have a FLIR (Forward looking Infra Red) system to fit in to our helicopters and UAVs that will obviate the need to import these without having to worry about their like for like performance levels.Mr Akyol: (AselFlir500) We are talking about a system that can detect people over 20 kilometers, detect tanks over 80 kilometers, and mark over 20 kilometers. It can do this both day and night. At the same time, it has very high imaging capability in low light environments and especially for the first time in this class, we have also introduced the HD SWIR camera feature"
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Where is the fourth sensor?
What do we have that is going to use FLIR-500 that operates over about 30000 feet? Neither Akıncı nor Aksungur has operational altitude higher than that. Nor any of the helicopters we might use it on, obviously. Also, Aselsan is already working on FLIR-600 for higher altitudes unless I'm misremembering.The lower end of the temperature range has increased from -55 to -40.
Do you have any source on that "civilian component" claim or are you just making it up because of the temperature mentioned?No export customer would believe that your product with only -40°C will be OK while the rival product comes with Mil-std-810G. This will obviously be a con for aselflir export.
ASELSAN might be working on 600, but it is bigger and if there is mil spec component shortage for 500, the same will be valid for 600 too.