MANILA, Philippines — Only police and military personnel are allowed to buy night vision rifle scopes, according to the Philippine National Police. Police Lt. Col. Eudisan Gultiano on Wednesday ...

Night vision googles used to be the exclusive preserve of the military, and then of the well-heeled. Image intensifier tubes were very expensive, and needed high-voltage power supplies to keep ...

scopes were bulky, hard to use ... goggles fall into a category he calls "esoteric hardware." He said, "military night vision currently is sort of stuck in the same technology valley as analog ...

Presently, the armor outfitted with night vision devices has give-away signs ... enhance the performance of armaments and special military hardware and substantially expand the range of its ...