Your Ideal Tank Contest

MrVic: A German company began working with it in 1935ish, and I think and the German army had some working it in to the army in 1939 tho none was implemented till 1945 area. Something like 40-50 German tanks were equipped with it later in the war, I think mostly panthers. But with its being such a new tech and the first muzzle flash caused it to "sunburst" for a bit which was a more distorted image. Its imaging was no where near what it is today more of a blob on the horizon. It worked to see if something was out there, hitting a target and using it after a large amount of shots tended to make them dead weight. Plus the first thing most forces did on the lines was fire off a flare which was bad for the infrared of that time period usually. I have read numerous places they fine tuned the sudden thermal heat source emissions not overloading the viewing diodes, tho not really sure how much success they had. The biggest thing that made them very useful was the true first generation of "image intensifiers" which did not arrive untilthe Vietnam war. Kinda of a toss up on powering/maint ect vs use.