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Night Shift: With Game-Changing Night-Vision Systems U.S. 'Owns the Night'

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John M. Doyle
John M. Doyle
06/24/2013

When Navy SEAL snipers killed three pirates off the coast of Somalia during the April 2009 rescue of a kidnapped American cargo ship captain, they took aim with night-vision scopes on their rifles. And in the May 2011 raid on a Pakistani compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, the helicopter pilots, the Navy SEALs who stormed the walled hideout – and according to some reports, the combat assault dog that accompanied them – were all wearing night-vision goggles on the super sec...
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