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From: kjetil@ifi.uio.no (Holm-Kjetil Holmsen)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Soviet IR and II gear
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Date: 20 Mar 91 03:34:41 GMT
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From: kjetil@ifi.uio.no (Holm-Kjetil Holmsen)

I had the pleasure of enjoing a stop in East Berlin last august.  At
the Brandenburger Tor the "gypsies" were selling all sorts of things,
including a small night vision / light amplifing device.  The lens was
a 50 mm / f1.0.  There seemed to be some sort of "slide fitting" underneth
so that it could be mounted on a tripod or a rifle or ....  It was powered
by a (normal) 9V battery and quite compact.  The main difference from the 
tree (wow!) different western light amlification devices I've tried, was 
that the emitted light was _yellow_ in stead of _green_.  Allso, the image
was not as good as i could remember from the other devices.  The price??
500 DM...  I didn't have that much with me.  Rats!

Holm-Kjetil Holmsen, Cand.Scient student	email: kjetil@ifi.uio.no
Dept. of Informatics
University of Oslo
NORWAY