how cheap will thermal get?

Not very. It took nearly 50 years for gen 1 NV stuff to drop below $1K and thermals are only really coming into their element now. Unless you mean low-res low-ref trash like Torrey pines viewers, which are basically childrens toys.

>>31792211
atn, flir, Armasight ...
only the ones considered to be hunting grade or useable to id at 200 yards

she looks like a holocaust victim

>>31792101
>he thinks the price of thermal will drop noticeably within 5 years
wew

>>31792101
Considering you can buy a thermal unit for your phone for $150 and my current phone has integrated FLIR optics in it and I got it for under $600...

I think flir has already dropped by multiple factors in price.

>>31792101
ill let you in on a secret

its already cheap.
the .mil keeps the price inflated through contract negotiation with FLIR and Harris and the like

systems come and go, stock gets thrown away, new and old. its chump change for the manufacturing side of the military/defense contracting industry

its all illusionary pricing

the cost is kept prohibitively high so that companies can sustain the massive margins they get by selling it to uncle sam. Much like HK rifles, Harris radios, OshKosh trucks ETC

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>>31792348
>she looks like a holocaust victim
holocuast victim with gun and diamond

>>31792101
More? Reminds me of those renaissance paintings.

>>31792463
And an even worse tattoo

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>>31792769
>Renaissance paintings
>c. 1793

breh . . .

>>31792451
I work for Oshkosh, you are wrong. Go ahead and check their civilian divisions, Pierce, JerrDan, JLG, etc. Their vehicles are expensive because they are made extremely well, in the United States.

>>31792424
FLIR has a ridiculous employee discount
>wife worked for flir

>>31792889
not that anon but I do have to say they are overpriced... Look every one knows that everything made in America is overpriced not because of the workers or how hard it is to make but the bloated management and upper workers who get paid absurd amounts and crazy bonuses

>>31792947
I'm not saying otherwise, but Oshkosh military vehicle prices aren't bloated because of contracts- they are bloated because everything they make is overpriced.

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>>31792845
Fine boroque, you know what I meant!

>>31792958
yeah, same thing with cars in the 1990s you could buy a brand new corolla for 9k now it starts at 18k with the increase in automation and off shore manufacturing the cars should probably only sell for 12-15k base.

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>>31792973

I'm a sucker for art porn especially with weapons, those are rare.

>>31793058
>tfw this shit will go extinct if our dystopian multicultural consumerist future

>>31792918
sell me one marked down

>>31793058
>marble skin being dimpled by marble hands
I have an art boner that would chisel an homage out of marble holy shit

>>31792101
>How cheap will thermal get in the next 2 to 5 years?
They will only get cheaper if the technology gets cheaper, by means of some technological revolution, with is unlikely - but than again, we have no idea.
Also, please remember, thermals are one of the few technological advances we have over mudslimes, so maybe it should not become cheap/accessible.

>>31792101
It's already cheap retard. Google is your friend.

>>31793972
I've seen that piece in real life, I popped a marble boner right then and there

>>31794102
yea not talking about the usb plug-in shit

>>31794102
You're the retarded one. We tested it, (T10N vs FLIR 3-gen )and it has range of only like, 15 meters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSXhuTDZRv4
Using brain is your friend, you failed millennial abortion.
Also, Google is NOT our friend.

>>31792392
It's already pretty cheap.

Also stop being a a tripshitter.

Faggot

>>31794405
How cheap is it then, shitposter?

>>31794381
>. We tested it, (T10N vs FLIR 3-gen )and it has range of only like, 15 meters.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSXhuTDZRv4 [Remove]
+1 google is very shady. Oops we left off Trump as a candidate, try clinton auto-complete on google vs any other search

OP here, Shitposter can go buy a $8000 800x600 60 hz 2-24x 100mm scope and then lecture me. Or post that thermal scope. On the other hand I found this.
https://www.leupold.com/hunting-shooting/thermal/lto-tracker/
I'm still need more range and resolution, but it is another step into possible.

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>>31793972
Feet are nice too

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>>31794612
I see I'm not the only one that likes marble.

>tfw no statue to feel up

The sensor chips are the problem. Only a few companies can produce them. Russia and China failed to invest in chip fabrication. They aren't made with silicon unlike normal image sensors, so you need a special fabrication setup.

>>31792348
so fake?

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>>31794890
>thicc

>>31792769
Look up Oleg Volk, it's the photographer. He has quite the unmistakable style.

Be prepared to see a lot of cringy pro gun propaganda though. His pictures are better than the slogans he writes.

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>>31795288
My dude, if you like them kinds of women, the entire renaissance era is for you.

>>31792348
But she's real

>>31796171
Must be cold in that museum.

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>>31795372
Neat.

>>31792889
If they're so well made, why do they have to be updated before they ever hit the fleet and why do they constantly break down?

>>31796898
>3 gorrillion rdb photos
whoa

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>>31796924
>the wood furniture one is in there
Painful.

>>31796876
I think the rock-hard nips were a dead giveaway.

>>31796934
Dude that gun looks sick as hell

>>31797935
I hold out hope that one day there might be aftermarket ways to make an RDB look like that.

>>31795028
>China failed to invest in chip fabrication
Can't tell if b8 or retardation

>>31792101
Is there anything out there similar to the REAP-IR for ~$4K?
(smaller size, 640x480, 60Hz)

>>31792424
What phone gent?

>>31792947
This person gets it.