Darkness Increases the Dangers for Soldiers and Police Working in the dark is no easy task. Even more so, working in the dark for our military and law enforcement is very dangerous. Risk not only looms from enemies and criminals but also from each...
We wanted to test the Vehicle Markers to see if a marked vehicle could be found in a crowded mall parking lot. A white truck was parked at the mall with a white 3″X12″ Vehicle Marker on its roof. The helicopter flew to the mall and the TFO...
Some people think a thermal film is going to the movies in the summer when the A/C is broken. But that is not the case! Thermal film is a thin non-descriptive piece of material, either tan, brown, OD green, or black that is used by the military, law enforcement and...
Why Automatic Gain Control (AGC)? The first thermal imaging camera’s required the user to manually adjust the contrast and gain. Users were not always skilled enough to keep these settings adjusted properly. In the end, this led to missed information. Automatic...
The military has used thermal shooting targets for years to train with their advanced thermal scopes. The first targets were all “active.” This means they were heated up with flames, electricity, and chemicals—more than once targets went up in flame. Then...
Passive, No Power, Low-Emissivity, Reverse Polarity Juliet said to Romeo: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet;” In other words, what we call something does not change its characteristics and...