Fair enough.
ah yes my favourite zoom options
- general observation
- electron microscope
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That’s only cuz I used IR channel. TV goes up to 320x
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Catherine MP was installed operationally as the gunner’s thermal sight on both Challenger 3 and Ajax’s direct predecessors, and Thales don’t publicly appear to offer another HD-resolution imaging system.
It has been the preferred UK sovereign, cooled imager since the late-2000s, and had considerable government funding to ensure its status as a UK sovereign capability.
Unless Thales UK have made something better somewhere, or you believe CR3 is going to have worse gunner thermals than Challenger 2 and Scimitar 2, there is practical certainty that we are using Catherine MP in the current Ajax and CR3’s DNGS-T3 (and Orion) setup.
The Catherine MP camera is visible in the above brochure image of the dismounted DNGS-T3
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On that note, it matches to the MW one, due to the separate black cylinder (connector?) in the bottom right corner.
MW, here the cylinder is red
LW, lack of therfore
That helps a little, but does not prove anything.
Orion also can be seen mounted with the MW, as you can see the bump with a slope on the side, that is at the base of the cylinder.
The Caliber Defence article talks about the “Thales SharpView” imager, i havent heard of it before
It states its MWIR
This isnt a primary source though
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SharpView is a real thing
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/news-centre/events/united-states/ausa#:~:text=Counter%20UAS%20System-,SharpView,-Thermal%20Camera
is there a chance the SharpView imager is essentially a secondary commanders imager for the future RWS of the Challenger 3
Afaik the commander of the CR2 could use the RWS imager but that may have been as he didnt have a CITV
edit: im dumb it states its for the main commanders sight
Dunno
they really dont make this easy for us, not that war thunder bug reports are exactly their main focus
Yeah SharpView is the branding they’re using for a compact imager used on the British Army’s Boxer’s RWS. That model used to be called Catherine EZ. From what I’ve read, the SharpView brand is now also applied to the imager chosen for the USMC’s Protector RS6 turrets for JLTV, which was previously branded as Thales TIM-LR. My initial guess is they are rebranding the sights that have Thales “Smart Zoom” image upscaling technology (think along the lines of DLSS) that was on Catherine EZ.
SharpView may also be used for the PAAG multi-function sight head that looks like it may replace CR3’s Orion installation for the commander as it’s being advertised as True Hunter.
Other PAAG videos
But the article says MWIR for both the gunner and commander. Gunner seems to be continuing with DNGS-T3 (i.e. Catherine MP), and CR3 TD we have ingame was using Orion, as do the CR3 prototypes fielded so far
At this point gaijin might as well just make up sight zoom as its not that clear what the sight specs even are
Honesty, if you want to go with anything, just go with the MW one, it can be physically seen on both DNGS and Orion, so you have some base. That gives us 10-2.3degree, so 7-32x
I’ll see what they say with my original report, I doubt it will pass, when it gets looked at by gaijin if it dosent pass ill go with that
I used a generic MW datasheet which I believe came before they made seperate variants
You seem to understand it better than me so feel free to report it yourself if you’d like to
Also I have to correct this, as I forgot. MW is the addition to the LW family, and 5/15 and 3.5/10.5 are LW.
I can do that, but in a few hours, I should be sleeping, but instead I’m looking at thermal imagers.
Theres obviously no rush lol, I think your idea is probably more likely to be passed though
Guess we shall see soon.
Guess I’ll also do it for the 3TD
im dreading them giving the 3TD and future pre production CR3s a 6x fixed sight, that would be absolutely miserable for an MBT
Its somewhat useable on the AJAX as its an autocannon vehicle, i think they’re just keeping the 3TD at its current zoom as they realise 6x would be horrific ingame