Both the Trijicon (formerly IR&D) thermals with the BAE cores ... and the N-Vision thermals with the BAE cores ... are GREAT. The best commercial stuff we can buy and have been for eons.
My main problem with the REAPs (and Patrols) has been zeroing with the joystick. The issue...
Lightly used Pixel's on Target Voodoo M L (M with onboard pointing laser, Tan IR & Vis Green )
$19k
Personal check or money order (paper instrument that will clear) shipped / insured to CONUS.
Manuf date 10/23
PM if further questions.
Thermal can see critters in and through brush (vegetation in general) way better than NV.
A single person using an illum with NV will have it "bounce back" at them, washing out the scene. Only with a moon in the right spot illuminating down into the brush from overhead can passive NV see...