ARNVG – Articulating Ruggedized Night Vision Goggle

Description

The ARNVG (Articulating Ruggedized Night Vision Goggle) is an extremely tough, full-featured night vision binocular.

The housing is billet machined from aircraft-grade aluminum and designed to handle challenging real-world environments.

During drop testing, the housings far exceeded military requirements of MIL-STD-810H drop testing, surviving falls onto bare concrete from heights beyond what lenses and image intensifiers can handle.

The design includes push-button switches for power and an Infrared Illuminator.  A fence guards the IR illuminator button with distinctive contours to prevent inadvertently activating the IR illuminator.  Indicators in the viewing area alert the user if the IR illuminator is on or the unit senses a low battery condition.  The unit is powered by an onboard 123 battery or auxiliary power from a battery pack using a 4-pin LEMO-style connector.

ARNVG optics feature a full range of adjustments.  The mil-spec objectives allow the user to focus between 9.8 inches and infinity, while the mil-spec eyepieces offer a diopter adjustment range of -6 to +2.  The articulating design allows the user to quickly adjust for an Interpupillary Distance from 47mm to over 80mm.

Each optical pod can be rotated up out of the users view as desired, freeing one or both eyes for natural sight as conditions demand.  When the goggle is helmet mounted and in the stowed position, the optical pods can be folded back flat against the helmet to minimize neck strain and better protect the goggle, and the user, from impacting overhead objects. The optical pods automatically turn off when articulated up.  This feature prevents illumination on your helmet when one side is articulated up and ensures that the image intensifiers are ‘off’ in the stowed position with the optical pods folded back against the helmet.  The force required to swing the optical pods is user adjustable using a coin.