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Future Soldier 2025 (video): Enhanced Night Vision Goggles

5th May 2015 - 16:49 GMT | by Scott Gourley, Beth Maundrill in Huntsville

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Shephard spoke with Staff Sgt David Carter of Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Command (CERDEC), US Army, at AUSA 2015 in Huntsville about some of the features for Future Soldier 2025.

The programme aims to find what the operational requirements will be for soldiers in 10-15 years from now.

One of the components of Future Soldier 2025 includes new enhanced night vision goggles (ENVG). The ENVG has been developed for both the mounted and dismounted soldier and it includes two sensors: near-IR (NIR) and thermal.

Prism fusion is used to overlay a thermal image on the NIR image, and where

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Scott Gourley

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Scott Gourley


Scott Gourley is a US-based writer on defence and security issues. A former US Army …

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Beth Maundrill

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Beth is Deputy Editor - Land at Shephard Media, managing coverage across all formats of …

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