Australian Army experiments with UGVs, but seeks understanding before proliferation
The Australian Army is exploring the options and benefits of a wide range of UGVs.
SHOT 2014: Exelis highlights international NVG sales
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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