7/20/2023 0 Comments Nightowl heat visionHis time out in the field is only limited to how long the ice pack lasts. The wearer would then be comfortable and invisible to Infra red and Thermal Imaging equipment as well as visually invisible with the gillie suit on. The Gillie suit would be far enough away from any heat source so it would be at ambient temperature of its surroundings thereby eliminating the “Black Hole” of being too cold to a Thermal Imager. The wearer could then wear an insulated backpack of some sort containing the ice, pump and battery to power it. So why could we not incorporate such cooling garments INSIDE of an insulated suit of some kind.Įven a winter snowmobile suit would work covered with a gillie suit for visual camouflage. Įach garment has vinyl lines filled with a solution that won’t freeze at normal temperatures and is hooked to a cooler filled with ice and circulated via an electric pump. They are cool shirts ,cool pants and a head wrap of sorts all used by race car drivers to keep them cool while inside a hot race car. There is already a commercially manufactured solution to this. The solution I came up with was more or less what to do about the contained body heat and how to get rid of it. The problem was that he had only minutes before his body would overheat and cause heat stroke. The wet suit or dry suit made of neoprene did a very exceptional job of hiding the heat signature of a human body. We achieved this by pounding nails in rows thru a 2″X4″, large to small, and using it as a stamp along the cut-out edges to soften the apparent edges. We had to modify the drapes by softening the edges of the cutouts. The combination of shape-shifting and the unconventional tactical movements would have fooled even the sharpest of analysts. We tested it out using a Night Owl Next-Gen thermal-imaging binocular from a helicopter at 8,000′ and at near ground level and the results were amazing. It was like a light went off in our heads simultaneously. All of us old, seasoned tacticians looked at each other in total amazement. This idea was presented to us at one of our prepper meetings by an 18 year girl. To the unknowing eye we have shape-shifted. Though we do use typical squad techniques we try to emulate or appear as a group of deer or elk moving through the forest. When we engage in practice maneuvers wearing these drapes we stay in the trees and we don’t follow standard tactical movements. One of our prepper girls created a series of mylar body drapes, made from emergency blankets, that has cut-outs which allow heat to escape in a desired pattern, like the shape of a deer or elk. My plan is ghille suit w mylar lining, and camo net over mylar for shelter. Just remember, you’re trying to blend… not “cool” yourself. Use glass or other “black hole” materials if you’re moving Make yourself appear colder than your surroundingsĢ. Take extra care to hide any hot object from view ( put it under your suit, coat whatever)ġ. Most operators do not have direct comms to those they support on the ground and you may be mistaken as friendly.Ĥ. Use IR stobes, military gear… try to appear as if you are a friendly force. It’s very clear to see who has fired at your troops.Īnother suggestion that may sound silly is to hide in plain sight. In fact we used that to identify combatants from non combatants in afg. But let’s say you were using a tool to engage an enemy… that took us gonna get hot, fast. Might give you a chance in a casual scan. I would suggest some sort of ghille suit to break up the silhouette combined with some sort of mylar lining. As for being out in the open tho… that’s gonna be very difficult to hide. Cant count how many times we would chase a target into a covered area and loose him. Now it was extremely difficult to see through dense foliage. IR we had on our birds was sensitive enough I could tell if someone had dug a hole in the ground then covered it back up hours or even days later. Imagine seeing a 4×4 sheet of black moving along the ground from 5000 ft…. Basically there is nothing for the camera to report so its blank. However what is shown to the operator is a “black body” or “black hole”. I can confirm glass is impenetrable to IR. That’s why you see the black and white image. Yes the sensor will see your body, but the image I see on the screen shows contrast. I’m gonna have a hard time seeing you because the surrounding terrain is the same as your body temp. Let’s say it’s exactly 98.6 degrees outside and the earth is also at 98.6. You need to think of the surface temperatures of what is surrounding you to blend with. Yes you could make a cool-suit or etc but now I’m just gonna see a black or dark spot moving around vs a white hot spot… and if that silhouette looks like a person…. The idea here is to blend, not cool whatever your trying to conceal. Now after reading the coments there are a few things I’d like to point out.
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