The Ministry of Defence is investigating how a pair of state-of-the-art night vision goggles worth £12,000 came to be offered for sale on eBay.

The equipment, designed for use by helicopter pilots, was placed on the internet auction site last month.

It is just one of several pairs of the highly sophisticated goggles to have disappeared from Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force bases over the past year.

Posted: 03|3|08 at 9:39 am. Filed under: UK News.