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LDO-ID 2013-04-08-01

Title Miniaturized day/night sight in Soldato Futuro program

Abstract

The market of the sights for the 5.56 mm assault rifles is dominated by mainly three types of systems: TWS (Thermal Weapon Sight), the Pocket Scope with Weapon Mount and the Clip-on. The latter are designed primarily for special forces and snipers use, while the TWS design is triggered mainly by the DRI (Detection, Recognition, ldentification) requirements. The Pocket Scope design is focused on respecting the  SWaP (Size, Weight and Power dissipation) requirements. Compared to the TWS systems, for the last two years there was a significant technological growth of the Pocket Scope/Weapon Mount solutions, concentrated on the compression of the overall dimensions. The trend for the assault rifles is the use of small size/light weight  (SWaP)  IR  sights,  suitable mainly for close combat operations but also for extraordinary use as pocket scopes - handheld or helmet mounted. The latest developments made by Selex Galileo S.p.A. are responding precisely to the above-mentioned trend, through a miniaturized Day/Night sight embedding  state-of-the  art sensors and using standard protocols (USB 2.0, Bluetooth 4.0) for interfacing with PDAs, Wearable computers, etc., while maintaining the "shoot around the corner" capability. lndeed, inside the miniaturized Day/Night sight architecture, a wireless link using Bluetooth technology has been implemented to transmit the video streaming of the rifle sight to an helmet mounted display. The video of the rifle sight is transmitted only to the eye-piece of the soldier shouldering the rifle.

Authors Landini Alberto, Cocchi Alessandro, Bardazzi Riccardo, Sardelli Mauro, Puntri Stefano

Type Paper for Seminar/Symposium/Conference

Media SPIE 2013 - “SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Infrared Technology and Apllications XXXIX” (29 April - 3 May 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

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