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No. There is a HUGE difference between Catherine FC (4x288 matrix) and Catherine MP (megapixel matrix). FC is export model for third world countries.
Putin builds up Assad army to be a world class army
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The commander has eight periscopes and an HL-70 stabilised panoramic sight from Safran (formerly SAGEM).
"In 2006, Giat unveiled the Leclerc optimised for urban operation."
HL-70 includes laser rangefinder, day channel, and second-generation image intensifier.
Recognition range is 4km and identification range is 2.5km. The commander has a display showing the gunner’s thermal sight. The gunner’s station is equipped with gunner’s main sight, three periscopes and a visual display unit. The gunner’s stabilised sight is SAVAN 20 from Safran, which contains a three-field-of-view thermal imager.
The driver’s station has three periscopes, of which the centre periscope is the OB-60 driver’s sight developed by Thales Optronique (formerly Thomson-CSF), which has day and night channels.
https://www.army-technology.com/projects/leclerc/
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No they do not mate.
T-90 Tanks to Get MCT-Matrix Heat-Vision Sight
14 May 2017 17:47 Rubric: Russia, Industry, Future
In 2016, the Krasnogorsk plant finished tests of the heat-vision sighting system Irbis for modernized tanks T-80U and T-90. The sights will be supplied to the army after 2017 under the already concluded contract, says the manufacturer’s annual reporting. According to the experts of Mil.Today, commissioning of the new sight will for the first time give Russian tankers a homemade thermal vision device based on the mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT) matrix, which will bridge a gap between the leading NATO countries in this area.
According to the annual reporting of the Krasnogorsk plant, in the last year it completed "a set of trials in order to equip the T-90 tank with the Irbis thermal-vision sighting system, which ensured conclusion of supply contracts on 2017 and further years". Details of the tests and technical features of the sight are not disclosed.
The sight is capable to identify targets at the range up to 3,240 meters day and night. Its spectral range is 8-12 micron (while in 2012 this parameter was declared as 7-12 micron). The photodetector type is submatrix, 4*288 elements. Wide field of view is at least 6.8 per 9 degrees, narrow field of view – at least 2.3 per 3 degrees.
The image is transmitted via digital interface on two gas-discharge displays. The gunner may hit targets either with automatic ranging or, in emergency mode, with manual ranging by the 'base on target' method. A tank commander may hit targets with manual ranging by using the same technique.
Operating temperatures of Irbis range from minus 50 to plus 50 degrees. The system is capable to operate in conditions of sand, dust, hoarfrost, sea fog, dew, or high humidity.
The heat-vision sight operates in tandem with the commander’s combined sighting and observation system Agat-MDT. In 2012, this device was codenamed as TO1-KO 4DT.
Spectral range of its photodetector is 3-5 micron, representing a cooled matrix with resolution of 320*256 pixels. Identification range is up to 2.5 km, an option of double range is also available.
Source: Russia makes up for long-lasting lag in heat-vision technologies
According to an insider in Russian defense industry, heat-vision devices for military hardware like tanks, IFVs and helicopters began to develop in 80’s, and at that time Soviet projects were globally recognized. "The Soviet defense industrialists chose to develop infrared imagers instead of thermal sights based on mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT) light-sensitive films. IR technology showed little promise and films were regarded as too expensive, so that area has seen no funding since the end of 80’s till late 90’s", said the source. As a result, for several years Russia was left behind in terms of production of heat-vision devices.
As of today, there are two categories of thermal vision devices: the first one is based on MCT films with cooled matrixes (spectral range 7-12 micron), and the second one is with uncooled matrixes on microbolometers (range 3-5 micron). Microbolometer is a thermal detector of optical radiation, most often, IR-band.
Russian scientists mastered growing mercury-cadmium-telluride films at the turn of XXI century, a source in the Institute of Semiconductor Physics at Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Mil.Today. However, it is also important to enter their mass production, he added.
Russia coped with mass production of uncooled matrix microbolometrical receivers only last year, they had been bought from France before. Russian tanks T-90, including export ones, were equipped with heat-vision devices produced by Thales. Their licensed production was set up at the Vologda optical mechanics factory.
According to Viktor Murakhovsky, a military expert, those matrixes are suitable for small arms or short/middle-range antitank weapons, but for tanks and helicopters leading NATO countries use MCT-film cooled matrixes. Murakhovsky added that Russian thermal cameras Agava and Agava-2 for Т-80U and Т-90 tanks were also based on microbolometers and are less effective. Earlier on, it was planned to equip upgraded tanks T-80 with Belarusian fire control system Sosna-U produced in Russia. Sosna has a 2G thermal vision camera with spectral range of 8-12 micron.
"Matrixes can be tracking or scanning. Tracking ones are faster and more effective. In Russia, there is a pilot production of scanning matrixes", the source in Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Mil.Today.
Image on the of commander’s and gunner’s displays equipped with heat-vision sighting systems Irbis and Agat-MDT
Krasnogorsk plant
"Operational range of the Irbis-based gunner’s sight is 8-12 micron", says Viktor Murakhovsky. "Thus, it is a real MCT matrix, but what kind of it, a tracking or a scanning one, is unclear yet. If in Russia, particularly at Vologda, Krasnogorsk or Kazan optical factories, they have already launched production of such heat-vision devices, that’s a great success. A couple of years ago there were some serious issues with them; sometimes it was discussed to redesign the sighting system. By now, we have learned how to make scanning MCT matrixes, however, one need time and huge funds to transfer the technology from labs to mass production at factories".
"Besides, as far as I know, Irbis has not been massively mounted anywhere yet", added Murakhovsky. "Perhaps, the sight has got the prototype of such matrix, and modernized tanks T-72B3 and T-90 will help to perfect the new technology", summarized the expert.
In 2017, Russia marks the 57-th anniversary of the first MCT researches and 45-th anniversary of works on MCT matrix heat-vision devices at the Scientific and Research Institute of Applied Physics (NPO Orion), the State Institute of Applied Optics (Kazan), and the Ioffe Institute (Saint Petersburg).
Heat vision sight Irbis for retrofitted T-90 tank
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Press service of Schwabe, the plant’s holding, refused to give comments: experts told Mil.Today that security services had prohibited disclosing tactical and technical characteristics of the Irbis system. However, the sight was many times displayed at Russian and international exhibitions, which photos and presentation videos are publicly available.
Features of the new gunner’s sight Irbis
For the first time the new tank gunner’s heat-vision sight Irbis-K and the commander’s combined sighting and observation system Agat-MDT were presented at the Engineering Technologies 2012 exhibition. Allegedly, both systems are based on Russian-made components.
According to the publicized characteristics, the tank heat-vision system Irbis-K is designed for T-80 and T-90 tanks.
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The sharp sword of the Grank army will cut through the enemies
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Israel whacks them whenever they want. Since 40 years.
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So what? M1A1/A2 got blown up in Iraq and Yemen. Does not mean it's not a potent system.
What is your proof Israel bombs Syria?
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Russia got a shiny new naval base, right there on the Med side that is easiest to reach by land and air for them.
Assad got to deny working class people the pay raises they sought, and stay in power through the abuse of a military against it's own population, as did his many cronies throughout his military.
and the "rebels", the protesters rather, they got massive suffering..
Assad owes it at the very least to give them the better economic circumstances they sought, on the low-low.
That, and new and improved housing.
those who say America engages in illegal / unjust wars, why don't i hear them about it when the Russians "help out" (by bringing suffering to yet another country)?
the only way to prevent these "minor wars" from ruining the reputation of superpowers is for superpowers to invest in keeping wars short (i'd say the Russians have done that in Syria), and more importantly : making sure the populations of such countries end up with a stable country for decades after such wars. They've also done so in Chechnya, so i know they are willing and able.
it would go a long way to solidify for the long term the claim the Russians are making on the east coast of the med.
and it would also help pave the road to a multipolar world, perhaps even with more "poles" than the US, Russia and China, with renewed international alliances (NATO, Belt and Road, and that new Russian alliance that so far limits itself to some of the direct neighbors of Russia) as well, alliances that mean something in many important ways.
Assad got to deny working class people the pay raises they sought, and stay in power through the abuse of a military against it's own population, as did his many cronies throughout his military.
and the "rebels", the protesters rather, they got massive suffering..
Assad owes it at the very least to give them the better economic circumstances they sought, on the low-low.
That, and new and improved housing.
those who say America engages in illegal / unjust wars, why don't i hear them about it when the Russians "help out" (by bringing suffering to yet another country)?
the only way to prevent these "minor wars" from ruining the reputation of superpowers is for superpowers to invest in keeping wars short (i'd say the Russians have done that in Syria), and more importantly : making sure the populations of such countries end up with a stable country for decades after such wars. They've also done so in Chechnya, so i know they are willing and able.
it would go a long way to solidify for the long term the claim the Russians are making on the east coast of the med.
and it would also help pave the road to a multipolar world, perhaps even with more "poles" than the US, Russia and China, with renewed international alliances (NATO, Belt and Road, and that new Russian alliance that so far limits itself to some of the direct neighbors of Russia) as well, alliances that mean something in many important ways.
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