Not that you can’t remove it, of course. If you want to see something more modern, [Nick] built his own AN/PVS-14 night vision scope and you can too.

The M151 is also fielded with a threadable night vision adaptor that allows an AN/PVS-14 NVG to be attached to the spotting scope’s eyepiece.

The AN/PSQ-20 Enhanced Night Vision Goggle (ENVG ... better balance and increases comfort as well as stability. The system is also designed to work with existing ballistic eye protection.

Do it three more times and arrange them around one’s eyeballs, and one can make a night vision system with a panoramic view that probably takes only a little getting used to. How well does it work?

Thales unveiled a production model of a night-vision google (NVG) system it calls ‘Panoramic' at the Special Operations ...