night vision device
Sign in to saveAlso known as NVD, night-vision goggles, night-vision device, night vision goggles
optoelectronic device
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- optical instrument
- Image
- PEO ANAVS-6 NVG.jpg
- Has use
- military affairs
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- Commons category
- Night vision devices
- topic's main category
- Category:Night vision devices
- used by
- sniper
- has cause
- temperature measurement
- topic has template
- Template:Infobox night vision device
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Encyclopedic overview
A US Navy aviator uses a pair of helmet-mounted AN/AVS-6 vision goggles. The effect on the natural night vision of the eye is evident A standard telescopic sight augmented with a night-vision device in front on the M110. Note that in addition to the image intensifier, the NVD gathers much more light by its much larger aperture A 1PN51-2 night-vision reticle with markings for range estimation First-person view through night-vision goggles of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team using an airboat.
A night-vision device (NVD), also known as a night optical/observation device (NOD) or night-vision goggle (NVG), is an optoelectronic device that allows visualization of images in low levels of light, improving the user's night vision.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “night vision device” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.