Just adding another tombstone to the xxxx AS cores.
I compared it to my defective Carnis Viper (old Lockheed VOX), and the Lockheed one is noticeably better, with more contrast and details.
For a 2000AS I am not surprised (depending on the defect of the Lockheed). Hardly apples with apples, an unstabilised gen1 160x120 ASi (and low power) vs a fully temperature stabilised 320x240 VOx that eats batteries for fun.
How they both came from the same US DoD requirement for a thermal rifle sight is difficult to believe, as for that matter did the Raytheon BST.
My AS3500 though stands up well, but only if given a sensible scene. It still suffered from a visual imagers' attempts at image presentation. The VOX was of course a far better basic detector so suffered less when subjected to some fairly clueless image processing algorithms.
The big positives for ASi was the low power (all FPGA, no peltier) and *
AT THE TIME - NOT NOW !!!* no export controls. As a wafer level packed sensor it was a long way ahead of its' time.
Bill