Indian Special Forces

[abingdonboy]

Am I the only one who is seeing quad tube nvg mounted on a helmet? View attachment 120061

Looks like the TONBO BNVD-P

 

[India Super Power]

Looks like the TONBO BNVD-P

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I think we must wait for some twitter experts for identifying this

 

[Aditya Ballal]

Am I the only one who is seeing quad tube nvg mounted on a helmet? View attachment 120061

Can someone find the original/clearer picture or atleast the page which has posted this? @tusharfoxtrot

 

[Okabe Rintarou]

Looks like the TONBO BNVD-P

View attachment 120066

Hard to tell. To me it looks like there is a taper on the tube. This tonbo quad doesn't have any tapers.

 

[Tactical Doge]

Hard to tell. To me it looks like there is a taper on the tube. This tonbo quad doesn't have any tapers.

GPNVG?
Imo Tonbos would've been a cheaper option

 

[Okabe Rintarou]

GPNVG?
Imo Tonbos would've been a cheaper option

Maybe, but even that doesn't have a taper. But then again the taper might just be due to the image distortion.

 

[abingdonboy]

Hard to tell. To me it looks like there is a taper on the tube. This tonbo quad doesn't have any tapers.

I'm not expert enough to tell the difference


@Gessler

 

[Tactical Doge]

Maybe, but even that doesn't have a taper. But then again the taper might just be due to the image distortion.

Then there is only one explanation

 

[Tactical Doge]

I'm not expert enough to tell the difference


@Gessler

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These are from a Garud display of arms, am I right??

Hopefully the need for NVG mounts force them to adopt better helmets

 

[Okabe Rintarou]

I'm not expert enough to tell the difference


@Gessler

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From this photo, objective lens part looks like GPNVG due to the step that isn't there on DRDO or TONBO.
But the eyepiece part has a shape similar to the Tonbo one.

 

[FalconSlayers]

https://indianairforce.nic.in/sites/default/files/RFI_Night_Vision_Device.pdf

IAF does have an RFI on their website for 120 dual tube NVDs.

90° x 40° is mentioned in the tender means it’s a Pano NVG Tender (GPNVG-18 = 97° x 40° FOV)
AN/PVS-31 Binod is 21° x 15.7° FOV.

Quite vague as it asks for binoculars

This is what Army calls Panonods, Binocular Panoramic NVG. But this FOV can never be of Binod, it’s too big for a Binod and is of Tonbo’s BNVD-P Pano NVG.

So u mean to say garuds have requirement of quads

That’s what the Tender says not me

“Wide Field of View”

So it turns out I was right guys

 

[abingdonboy]

These are from a Garud display of arms, am I right??

Hopefully the need for NVG mounts force them to adopt better helmets

Yes, Garuds


PARA SF maybe in 2040.

 

[abingdonboy]

So it turns out I was right guys
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From RFI to deliveries in weeks seems more than a little unlikely

 

[Aditya Ballal]

@Haldilal didn't @tusharfoxtrot post it first, unless @Hariharan_kalarikkal posted it before on another thread?

 

[SGOperative]

Para SF imo does not have a need for Quads as they go on long distance ops, and these Quads are heavy and more heavy with the counter weights. Possibly Para SF guys part of AFSOD might find it useful but the one which will be under army i doubt.

 

[FalconSlayers]

Para SF imo does not have a need for Quads as they go on long distance ops, and these Quads are heavy and more heavy with the counter weights. Possibly Para SF guys part of AFSOD might find it useful but the one which will be under army i doubt.

These are Garuds

 

[FalconSlayers]

From RFI to deliveries in weeks seems more than a little unlikely

When was the RFI released?

 

[Okabe Rintarou]

@Haldilal didn't @tusharfoxtrot post it first, unless @Hariharan_kalarikkal posted it before on another thread?

@Haldilal nibba why you do dis?

 

[Haldilal]

@Haldilal nibba why you do dis?

Ya'll Nibbiars mujhe kaha pata tha I got this from @Hariharan_kalarikkal Nibba.

 

[abingdonboy]

When was the RFI released?

Second half of 2021 but it's disappeared from the IAF's website now.