You can’t truly Dogfight at night, even with all the gubbins. The situational awareness available from mark one eyeball in daytime cannot be replicated by NVGs etc. Radar is mostly useless when your in a knife fight, ranges are too close and often targets are not in your radar cone.
You mean there is an increased chance of a mid-air collision or a crash in a nighttime and / or poor weather dogfight, despite the technological and navigational aids like radar, NVGs, IRST modules and altimeters that warn you when you’re close to the deck?
No its not
Anymore than using NVG and relayed superior intelligence to find a snake in a room is the same as doing so in daylight
The tiny wee losses in data and tiny wee worsening of reaction time all add up and make it much more dangerous
Al
You mean distinguishing friend from foe visually is a critical element?
IRST can help. Hopefully a clear night sky.
Practically it would, as it is thermal imaging, and obviously heat sources are more easily detectable at night.
Planes give off heat. They’re not hard to spot with an IRST slaved to your HMD (unless you’re looking for a Raptor, because its pilot has already seen you first!).
But as Al said there is degradation, its never going to be as easy or good as eyeball and daylight so still no. Its possible to dogfight to a certain degree at night but its hard, dangerous and nowhere near daylight fights.
You mean you have to balance between keeping the enemy in your sights and slightly moving your eyes to peek at the altimeter readout on your HMD visor in NVG mode?
You, as a fighter pilot, would have eye strain looking through those NVGs for hours in one flight (pilots with blue, gray and green eyes, or a combination of any of the three, marginally aggravate the eye strain pain). A pair of NVGs can amplify a light source at least 150%.
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