Hey everyone, time again for a more long-format educational piece, this time we begin taking a look at thermal camouflage.
The next video is where we get to specific testing, but for now, there's roughly an hour worth of information that needs to be understood. Otherwise, the testing won't make much sense. We're really trying to be as scientific as possible when exploring thermal camouflage, rather than just showing what something looks like. Shelter movment, deployment, weight, time, weather, and a variety of other factors are super important for measuring success.
But above all, tactics and operational choices are far more important for evading thermal sensors, which we hope to drive home as this series continues.
So far, we've got at least two more videos in this series planned, but we may combine or separate topics as we go along. Plans will probably change as we get a good baseline of data.
The next video after this one will be a brief, I think. I'm still working on that at the moment. Lots of work to be done; going to be a busy year, that's for sure!
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Table of Contents
| Timecode | Title |
|---|---|
| 00:00:00 | - Introduction |
| 00:03:23 | - How Optical Sensors Work |
| 00:04:21 | - "Invisible Light" |
| 00:09:58 | - Quantum Phyics Simplified |
| 00:11:04 | - How Thermal Sensors Work |
| 00:14:59 | - Detection, Recognition, Identification |
| 00:18:00 | - Key Takeaway |
| 00:20:00 | - Is it Worth it? |
| 00:23:23 | - Deception Basics |
| 00:27:17 | - A Game of Cat and Mouse |
| 00:28:20 | - Weather |
| 00:32:54 | - NIBs |
| 00:39:48 | - Adversary's Training and Equipment |
| 00:42:46 | - Factors of Recognition |
| 00:44:04 | - Position |
| 00:47:54 | - Shape |
| 00:52:00 | - Movement |
| 00:54:53 | - Additional Thoughts |
| 00:57:24 | - Commercial Warnings |
| 01:01:29 | - Closing Thoughts |
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