Seize the Night
With two wars raging in the Middle East, North Korea launching missiles, and pirates taking sailors hostage off the Horn of Africa, the need for nighttime surveillance has never been clearer. Often enemy combatants will use the cover of darkness to their advantage, and, with the sand blowing in the Middle East, it can be hard to see without infrared cameras.
In much of Afghanistan, there is simply a lack of ambient light. “I think the Afghanis invented darkness,” Lt. Gen. Franklin L....
Photonics Spectra, June 2009