3rd Gen sights will not be fielded anytime soon on Army armored vehicles

Credit: U.S. ARMY
Don't expect to see a new third-generation of forward-looking infrared (Flir) sensors installed in U.S. Army armored vehicle sights anytime soon. The service began installing second-generation Flirs produced by Raytheon and DRS on its Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles in 2000. These cooled...

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