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Home » Uncategorized » FULL MOON OVER IRAQ ERASES U.S. NIGHT FIGHT EDGE

FULL MOON OVER IRAQ ERASES U.S. NIGHT FIGHT EDGE

If U.S. troops move into Iraq this week, the Virginian-​​Pilot reports, they will have to sac­ri­fice one of their most impor­tant tech­no­log­i­cal advan­tages: night vision. The full moon has just passed over Iraq. And the bright moon­light acts like “a spot­light” in the desert — mak­ing American night vision tech­nol­ogy close to use­less, accord­ing to the Cato Institute’s Chuck Pena.

In the after­math of the first Persian Gulf War 12 years ago, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, now retired, argued that America’s night-​​vision capa­bil­ity was “the sin­gle great­est mis­match of the war.”
It could be just as impor­tant this time, said Dr. A. Fenner Milton, who heads the Army’s night-​​vision devel­op­ment pro­gram, based at Ft. Belvoir near Washington. Whereas American units relied on a rel­a­tive hand­ful of spot­ters equipped with night-​​vision scopes in 1991, more sophis­ti­cated view­ers are now in the hands of vir­tu­ally every sol­dier and Marine likely to see com­bat, Milton said. 


Iraq may have some night vision gear of their own — Soviet-​​made stuff that’s widely avail­able online.

But none of that equip­ment comes close to match­ing that car­ried by the Americans, said Tim Brown, an ana­lyst at the defense con­sult­ing firm GlobalSecurity​.org. Details vis­i­ble at 100 meters using a Soviet viewer can be seen at 500 meters with American equip­ment, he said. Also, the Soviet equip­ment has such a lim­ited field of vision that the user may feel he’s look­ing through a straw.
“It’s like the dif­fer­ence between a dis­pos­able cam­era and a professional-​​grade Nikon,” Pena said. 

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