12/7/2023 0 Comments Military invisible blanket![]() ![]() Look at the US Troops and see how their IR treated ACUs make them significantly harder to see than the Taliban. Imagine if you were operating in an area with greater tree cover, how that would add another layer to help you. That could be countered by the camo netting/ragged/gillie effect on top of your thermal poncho.Ģ. Look at the tents, how they block the thermal signature. To use the video as a teachable moment:ġ. Keep it constructive, even though the video is shocking. I ended up moderating a couple of comments of the “We’re all gonna die” type. Depending how well you use it, it may only save you from a casual scan, or done well it make make you invisible to a careful search. It is a complex camouflage issue that the thermal poncho can aid with, but may not be the whole solution all of the time. So take the FLIR threat seriously and don’t think that just putting a casualty blanket over you will be like an invisible cloak. Of course, if you can get into a hole or cave then all is good, but the thermal poncho is for when that is not available Remember that the FLIR devices on the market such as the FLIR scout, actually advertise that you can check you home insulation by seeing where heat is leaking out. The more cover you have between you and the FLIR device, such as ground or vegetation cover, the better, such as trees above the thermal poncho. Put it up in trees or on short poles above you so that there is separation between you and the covering poncho. So make a ‘thermal poncho’ similar to how I have suggested and have some good ‘gillie’ cloth on the topside to break up shine and imagery. Remember that on the commercially available casualty blankets it says it only stops 80% of body heat. Then it comes down to how long they concentrate on an area and if they discern heat either leaking out or warming up your poncho because you have it too close to your body. ![]() ![]() Particularly if they are expecting to look for human shapes. If you use terrain masking along with being under some vegetation and you get under a properly put together ‘thermal poncho’ strung up above you then you will make it very hard for surveillance to spot you. But how close are they looking? What you are at least doing is masking your human shape, which may have some short term value but is not the whole solution at least not for long. There is also the danger of heat leaking out over time, or heating up the poncho surface. You may appear as a ‘hole’ in the ambient temperature. So to conclude: just getting under a straight up poncho will not work for long. That is why in Patriot Dawn: The Resistance Rises I make such a point of using terrain masking, vegetation and constructed cover (cam nets and false roofs etc) and also in some of the battles the Resistance uses thermal smoke from tire fires to mask action on the ground from overhead drones. Over-saturation (be it through fire, heat emitters, etc.) Use of weather (fog wreaks havoc on both systems)Ģ. In practice it’s hard to hide from either TIS or FLIR unless you do it right.ġ. Most LE agencies use the same or similar equipment that possesses the same capabilities. So either one degree cooler or hotter and the shape of the image shows up in modern TIS. gov (and DoD) standard is the ability to discern either +/- 1 degree in temperature difference between objects and the ambient environment at any given range. When we look at thermal masking we have to take into account the capabilities of modern USG thermal imaging systems. ![]()
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