Exelis is highlighting developments with its ‘i-Aware’ Tactical Mobility night vision goggles (TMNVG) at the 2014 Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
According to Ed Yarish, Exelis business development manager for the TMNVG, the premise behind the design of the goggles is ‘to take a night vision goggle and leverage it with our communications systems experience to basically plug it into a radio and then put the goggle on the network’.
The TMNVG technology relies on modular components that provide the ability to use the system as either binocular or monocular, with one of the
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Combat losses of support and logistics vehicles in recent conflicts have highlighted the need for greater protection and even self-defence capabilities. What options are available to turn a basic truck into a survivor on the battlefield?
More than 1,200 Dingo 1 and Dingo 2 models have been built and deployed by some 10 countries. The latest Dingo 3 pulls through from user inputs and, like earlier versions, is also based on a UNIMOG chassis.
The company’s new variants of 4×6 and 6×6 vehicles are designed to be modular for a greater variety of missions and also flexibility at a subsystem level, for example transmission and engine.
The branch plans to speed up the building and procurement of kinetic and non-kinetic systems for fixed, semi-fixed and on-the-move operations.
Wheeled vehicles ranging in size from 4×4 to 8×8 provide high-speed at a good level of mobility compared to tracked. However, tracked can be larger and have a higher level of mobility in marginal terrain with a smaller turning circle. What are the possibilities for a 10×10?
The Borsuk vehicles are to replace the Soviet-designed BMP-1 as the Polish military’s main tracked Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV).
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