{"id":29212,"date":"2026-03-28T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/using-thermal-in-a-night-vision-match-moons-out-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:00:51","slug":"using-thermal-in-a-night-vision-match-moons-out-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/using-thermal-in-a-night-vision-match-moons-out-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Thermal in a Night Vision Match (Moons Out 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lgsCQzc-KrM?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I am really interested in the use of thermal optics for night shooting. As we can see from lots of footage in Ukraine, thermal imaging is a really important technology in modern warfare, and IR emissions like lasers and floodlights are far less useful in a peer-on-peer environment than in the low-tech counter-insurgency the US fought in the Middle East for many years. This yeah I ran an AGM Rattler 640 at the Moons Out match, and this is my takeaway from it, and plans for how to do the concept better next year.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Nocturne Industries for sponsoring the match!<\/p>\n<p>Some other videos from Moons Out 2026:<br \/>Nova Group&#8217;s Loadout: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VAyhmj6dMXs\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/VAyhmj6dMXs<\/a><br \/>BrassFacts&#8217; Belt-Fed match run: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y3uylxKOpg4\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y3uylxKOpg4<\/a><br \/>Kit Badger&#8217;s Loadout: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/i34LzooHJsc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/i34LzooHJsc<\/a><br \/>Ballistic Aviation&#8217;s match video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2Us4EWEjOgk\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/2Us4EWEjOgk<\/a><br \/>C_DOES&#8217; match video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1S6esEZryIE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/1S6esEZryIE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really interested in the use of thermal optics for night shooting. As we can see from lots of footage in Ukraine, thermal imaging is a really important technology in modern warfare, and IR emissions like lasers and floodlights are far less useful in a peer-on-peer environment than in the low-tech counter-insurgency the US&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/using-thermal-in-a-night-vision-match-moons-out-2026\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using Thermal in a Night Vision Match (Moons Out 2026)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}