Syrian military experts continue to equip the tanks thermal sights. Before this equipment was installed mainly on the T-72 , now it is increasingly common to older machines such as the t-55, writes the bulletin of the mordovia republic. The imagers are replacing the infrared devices, which responded to a variety of interference and often failed. Moreover, their actual range was only a few hundred meters. The same thermal imaging scope doesn't react to bright flashes and "Other exposure" like the flame of a strong fire, the author notes. And "See" it much further: for example, the syrian viper, according to published online information, the ability to detect the target type "Tank" at a distance of 4 km.

More efficiently the objects are fixed at a distance of a half or two miles. These sights have been developed by experts of the syrian scientific research center. However, they are then assembled from components produced abroad. T-55 tanks thermal sight mounted on the trunks of 100-millimeter guns on top of laser range finders, or to the place where previously was an infrared illuminator.