One of our ex-Boscombe Junglies on Hermes in ‘82, had liberated some Gen 3(?) NVGs and brought them with him. I tried them out in the SHAR cockpit and decided that they would be useable after a bit of chinagraph (grease) pencil work on some of the cockpit lights.
Our first option to take out the runway at Stanley was to use them to deliver KFFs in a 30 degree dive at night, with a release height of c3000’. This was a good wheeze against light defences but we had second thoughts when we discovered the bad guys had radar-laid 35mm and Roland missiles. Never did get to fly with them although the Junglies made very good use of them.
Mog