WORK.IN.PROGRESS - Classic Nina Williams /Tekken OVA - SpecOps
In the 1998 OVA "Tekken The Motion Picture" Nina can be seen wearing a black face mask variation of AN/PVS-5A night vision goggles, a second generation binocular night vision viewing system developed in the late 1970s...
This device was rumored to be in use with the CIA and outfits like Delta Force as early as 1979 before entering the US military service as a top of the line night vision device in the early 1980s for a variety of applications, such as for vehicle drivers, riflemen, and unit leaders. I was contemplating using some of the more modern devices that are readily available as 3D models online, but I totally dig the very classic look of the PVS-5s and decided to be as true to the Anime as possible. I haven't yet decided on whether I should texture them green like the US Military version or black like the variant used by the Israel Defense Forces, though.
This item is listed in the various U.S. Army Infantry Battalion Tables of Organization in 1978. There is nothing Secret about it. Early Night Vision Googles such as the SU49/PAS-5 were used with active emitter I.R.sources in Vietnam by MAC/SOG and Army S.F. Brightlight POW Search CSAR Teams in the very late 1960's and early 1970's. AN/PVS-5's were passive emitter NVG's. PVS-5's gave you roughly 20-50 vision in that green tinted shadowy world assuming you had 20-20 vision unaided as a second generation device. I used the AN/PVS-5's in Mountain Warfare School in 1987 and was issued the AN/PVS-7's later in my military career. I had limited experience with the AN/PVS-2 and AN/PVS-4, i.e. I got to turn them on and look through them for familiarization...
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