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6/19/2025, 10:55:41 PM
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SWIR lasers like the MAWL-CLAD and IZLID 1064nm provide active aiming solutions but are invisible to most NIR image intensifier tubes. You need a SWIR device like an ECOSI to see them, although certain tubes and some digital NVs are capable of seeing them too.
As such, SWIR allows you to "hide" from most forces equipped with NIR. That's huge.
Unlike thermal (LWIR), SWIR can see through glass and accurately identify objects like NIR. It also sees through smoke really easily, see vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHkPIOVJOCM
SWIR reflects absorbed and reflected light instead of heat, so it's kind of half NIR and half thermal in a way.
MWIR performs more like thermal but also with a mix of SWIR too. I believe they can see through glass, like SWIR, but can detect thermal signatures just like LWIR. Also, because a lot of gear is only tested against LWIR or NIR, it is possible SWIR / MWIR can detect them.
SWIR lasers like the MAWL-CLAD and IZLID 1064nm provide active aiming solutions but are invisible to most NIR image intensifier tubes. You need a SWIR device like an ECOSI to see them, although certain tubes and some digital NVs are capable of seeing them too.
As such, SWIR allows you to "hide" from most forces equipped with NIR. That's huge.
Unlike thermal (LWIR), SWIR can see through glass and accurately identify objects like NIR. It also sees through smoke really easily, see vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHkPIOVJOCM
SWIR reflects absorbed and reflected light instead of heat, so it's kind of half NIR and half thermal in a way.
MWIR performs more like thermal but also with a mix of SWIR too. I believe they can see through glass, like SWIR, but can detect thermal signatures just like LWIR. Also, because a lot of gear is only tested against LWIR or NIR, it is possible SWIR / MWIR can detect them.
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