Dev1nMooseyCabbage Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 I'm a fairly competent human being(im really stupid) but, I cannot figure out for the life of me how to get any of the russian IR scopes to show anything other than a black screen. I pretty sure it is just bugged anyone know how to fix it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj.Hans Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 (edited) You're using them during the day time. The Russian IR scopes are "Near infrared", like starlight scopes and nigh-vision goggles, which means that they don't show heat signatures, but rather the 0.75–1.4 um wavelength. These sights would be useless during the daytime, if not damaged/destroyed by bright light. They are bolted closed during the day. These are "image intensifier" sights. During a night scenario you will be able to use them, although without any source of IR illumination as yet modeled, you won't see much anyway as these are relatively poor passive sight systems. Most American/German/British units you play with have sights that look into the intermediate or long infrared wavelength. This means they're actually able to see heat sources and display this as a picture. Thus, "Imaging infrared" or "Thermal imaging", including systems like TTS, TIS, FLIR, etc. Those systems can be used day and night. The distinction between the two types is important, although I think sometimes since we tend to use very generic terms it easily becomes confused. Edited October 22, 2016 by Maj.Hans 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev1nMooseyCabbage Posted October 22, 2016 Author Share Posted October 22, 2016 Thanks, finally put me at ease and i also like learning new things. Thanks for spending the time to educate an old guy like me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj.Hans Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 No problem. I still learn stuff every day. It's counter intuitive, particularly since here in the west "IR" when thrown around here in the west basically means imaging infrared, like TIS/TTS from the M1/M60. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma6584 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 15 hours ago, Dev1nMooseyCabbage said: Thanks, finally put me at ease and i also like learning new things. Thanks for spending the time to educate an old guy like me. We are all young kids here learning something new every day. Also, I would highly recommend you make and try a night time mission with the Russian equipment. It is usually nail-biting to say the least. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj.Hans Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 6 hours ago, enigma6584 said: We are all young kids here learning something new every day. Also, I would highly recommend you make and try a night time mission with the Russian equipment. It is usually nail-biting to say the least. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisWerb Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 22 hours ago, Maj.Hans said: No problem. I still learn stuff every day. It's counter intuitive, particularly since here in the west "IR" when thrown around here in the west basically means imaging infrared, like TIS/TTS from the M1/M60. That's a good point. We tend to forget that we had those old IR systems on vehicles too before we went to Image Intensifying, then back to IR in the form of TI/IIR/FLIR. Did Soviet IR searchlights double up as white light searchlights like ours did? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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