This Issue
- Army Sergeant Major: CWO James Smith
- Modernizing for the future fight
- A call for a digital insurgency
- Experimenting with combat support
- Joint Fires, incrementally
- Behind friendly lines
- RAMD: Test, break, repeat
- Can you 3D print that?
Fall 2021
I’d really be interested in seeing a picture of how your cover model sights his weapon while wearing those NVGs. I’m an old veteran so my experience was with IR equipment (ALBIS) and early NV scopes. Does he have to flip the NVGs up to use the weapon sight? Or does he have to retain the NVGs in place to see and somehow align the weapon?
Hi Pat – his weapon is equipped with a laser aiming device (LAD; you can see it in the picture in front of his support hand along the top of the barrel) that is aligned with the barrel of rifle. On a button press the LAD emits a near infrared aiming laser that he can see with the NVGs. The laser indicates the point of aim of the rifle. Alternatively, if he had a night sight on his weapon (he doesn’t here), he could flip up the NVG (either just his shooting eye, or both) and use his sight, then flip back down when done engaging the target.