During a light-starved night, with no moon and cloud-obscured stars-that is when the superiority of L3Harris Technologies' night-vision tube performance is time-proven.
With the advantage that L3Harris Technologies' gear provides, U.S. forces are able to take down an entire defensive force-even against armed guards with night-vision goggles-before they know anything happened.
We have the highest-performing tubes in the world-the best imaging, the highest reliability, Tom Horwath, L3Harris director of Business Development, said. We can justify it with data where others can't. That, and the fact that the world's most-elite forces prefer our equipment, is testament to their quality.
L3Harris engineers and manufactures the industry's only unfilmed Gen III Image Intensification tubes. Each year, the company ships tens of thousands for ground, aviation and weapon-mounted systems to government, military and law enforcement customers worldwide.
We listen carefully to our customers to determine their needs, Horwath said.
For example, company representatives have worked directly with U.S. Army end users over the last two years to evolve Enhanced Night Vision Goggle - Binocular (ENVG-B) design elements to ensure the solution is optimally suited for the soldier at the edge of the battlefield. Since 2018, L3Harris has delivered more than 4,500 combat-ready systems under the program's $391 million Directed Requirements contract.
Our customers want overmatch and mobility, John Burnsed, L3Harris director of Engineering and Design, said. Our devices are so sensitive, on the darkest of nights you can have great Situational Awareness through hi-res images. You understand the world around you faster through what feels like a daytime environment.
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO PHYSICS The unfilmed tubes, miniaturization of critical tube components and white phosphor advances are keys to improving customer capabilities. All of these technologies are achieved through materials engineering bordering on applied physics.
Burnsed says physics touches every discipline at our tube manufacturing center in Tempe, Arizona - our specialty glass process, the optics. We manipulate matter at the atomic level every day. Key breakthroughs in L3Harris' designs include advances in spacing requirements between the components' photocathodes and Micro Channel Plates, according to Burnsed.
L3Harris tube components are closer together and have a finer pitch for higher resolution, reduced halos and delivery of a much higher-quality image. The team has increased tube Figure of Merit (FOM) performance by 50 percent in the last five years, according to Horwath.
The higher the FOM number, the more precisely operators can detect and identify targets, Burnsed said. You want a great level of sharpness and image stability without distortion.
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