In a nuclear battlefield, the concentration of forces into a spearhead would present a perfect target for the employment of tactical nuclear weapons. A single well-placed weapon could break up the attacking forces before they even had time to properly prepare, causing enough casualties to make them ineffective even in the defence.
This is the type of equipment it was expected an infantryman attacking an irradiated zone might need to push forwards after the employment of a tactical nuke on an enemy formation.
https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/army-soldier-future-1959-video/
Jeep mounted Davy Crockett tactical nuke:
It scopes a picture of the enemy meta, allowing you to hard-counter their build.
Slightly more seriously: it’s a generation zero IR night-vision scope, that relies on actively illuminating the target (read: being an IR flashlight, or preferably, bolt one onto your vehicle). This type was first used in ww2, but got pretty popular, and more portable, in Korea.