The war technologies for soldiers in the battlefield are are getting more and more advanced day by day with engineers working on things that could fulfill the dream of creating the ultimate soldiers. Now DARPA, which is the wing of US Army that keeps us entertained by creating small and huge gadgets for its soldiers is at it again and now it is on a mission to equipped soldiers with HD thermal imaging cameras.
These HD thermal imaging cameras will allow the soldiers to detect heat potentially coming from an enemy at dark places. The camera they have built with a private partner has 1,280 x 720 long-wave infrared imager or LIWR with pixels that are just five microns in diameter. The thermal imaging cameras are useful for soldiers as well as other law enforcers as it allows them to see in the dark and even inside buildings to detect if there’s an enemy or a survivor making sure for them that nothing goes by undetected. Not only that but it also helps in landing helicopters in fog or smoke.
The HD thermal imaging cameras DARPA has created have pixels that are smaller than infrared’s light wavelenght. This allows them to make devices for soldiers equipped with this technology much more cost effectively and small in size without compromising on resolution or sensitivity.
The three functional prototypes DARPA has created have performed as well as the models which are considerably larger in size from them and were able to see through dust storm as well as other scenarios.
While DARPA does not releases devices it creates for its soldiers publicly, if it does then we will be the first ones to buy these HD thermal imaging cameras and other highly interesting things it has created in the past. But that isn’t going to happen as military likes to keep its technology to itself and you can’t blame them given the dangerous world we live in.