re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Yeah I find it hard to believe that the Russians haven’t figured out night vision yet.

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Until recently, for example, Russia’s most modern tanks relied on an infrared sight by French company Thales called the Catherine FC. The country lost access to those after its first invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Since then, Russia had to begin assembling its own devices, a process made much more difficult by the fact than many sources of necessary components are under sanction. Some older Russian vehicles still rely on active infrared searchlights, which light up the vehicles using them with potentially fatal results.

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April 2023

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While some night-vision technology has been "proliferated throughout specialized Russian units," he told Insider, the common soldier just isn't getting anything close to the coveted scopes and goggles. And with corruption running rampant in the Russian armed forces, some groups that get access to higher-end equipment like night-vision systems likely hoard them, Barros noted.

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June 2023

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Hell, the Afghan and Iraqi insurgents had night vision.

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According to the US and NATO observers and advisors that I have talked to. Not only is the average Iraqi insurgent or Taliban fighter better equipped than the average Russian soldier today, the average Soviet soldier in Afghanistan in the 80s as better equipped than the Russian soldier in Ukraine. When are y'all going to realize just how bad the Russian army really is? Russian soldiers are wearing foot wrappings with writing on them saying that they were made in the USSR. Corruption in Russia is so bad that the Russian army cannot even keep its soldiers in socks because 80-90% of the money allocated for the Russian army is stolen by everyone from Putin down to lowly purchasing officer. Why are you surprised Russia does not have night vision capability?