Russian Citizen Convicted for Conspiring to Illegally Send Night Vision Technology to Russia

Members of US Navy SEAL Team Six using night vision devices and laser sights in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, in "Zero Dark Thirty." Jonathan Olley/Columbia Pictures

A Russian national was sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to charges of conspiring to transmit high-end U.S. military technology to Russia.

Some of the tech that 53-year-old Dmitry Ustinov is accused of trying to export includes night vision devices and thermal imaging scopes.