Excuse some questions from a non-multi type.
How many aircraft fly around at Nimrod heights over Afghanistan on NVGs? Would IR strobes actually be of any benefit? How long would a multi flight deck crew be expected to wear NVGs?
Is the aircraft not protected in the airspace by other procedural means?
Would TCAS be used in these types of ops by surveillance aircraft? If so, why can other aircraft not operate white light (and hence negate the need for NVGs)?
Whilst I agree that the airframes probably do have their issues, I think it unfair to label every lack of capability as a major flight safety problem. To do so (in my opinion) just makes the campaigners appear as whingers and scaremongerers and the real issues risk being ignored.
I cannot find any threads begging for Nimrod TCAS or Nimrod NVG, were they not a problem until now?