I really like the idea, but since many like me want to emphasize on both action and realism, i looked up some scientific stuff, which i've seen in military night vision goggles during recent years. "You can see your enemy, but they cannot see you coming."Īfghan officials say they know the Taliban militants are using this technology: They have discovered the kit on the dead bodies of fighters.Since the recent Insurgency Sandstorm (IS) updates till Nightfall they changed the lighting for night maps. "Night-vision equipment is used in ambushes by the insurgents, and it is very effective," Major General Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry, told The New York Times after the November attack. In November, Taliban militants killed eight police officers as they slept in their beds in Pule Regi, a village near Farah, the city in the same province where Tuesday's attack took place.
It has used the funds garnered from the trade to purchase weapons and kit. The Taliban has a lucrative trade in opium that enables it to support its insurgency in Afghanistan. They may have been purchased in neighboring Pakistan, where the Taliban has an arm known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban, or Pakistani Taliban. Officials say the night-vision goggles are Russian-made devices but did not come from Russian hands. The Taliban had reportedly purchased the kit on the black market to launch the raids.
Taliban militants launched an offensive on three checkpoints in and around the western Afghan province of Farah on Tuesday using night-vision technology in the group's latest high-tech assault.Īfghan officials told The New York Times that the radical Islamist group had once again used the kit to launch a deadly attack on policemen, killing at least 20 officers.
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