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Israeli camouflage tech makes soldiers ‘invisible’

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Re: Israeli camouflage tech makes soldiers ‘invisible’

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They say that this can be used to safely move injured soldiers out of the battelfield. I am having hard time understanding that. From the looks of it, this seems like something that dwells in well with the background. Moving subject will definitely be visible as background doesn't stay constant isn't it?

But this is definitely something very innovative and unique.

Re: Israeli camouflage tech makes soldiers ‘invisible’

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They say that this can be used to safely move injured soldiers out of the battelfield. I am having hard time understanding that. From the looks of it, this seems like something that dwells in well with the background. Moving subject will definitely be visible as background doesn't stay constant isn't it? But this is definitely something very innovative and unique.

have you seen invisible man?

Re: Israeli camouflage tech makes soldiers ‘invisible’

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> we actually registered a patent on it in many countries around the world Isn’t this counter-productive for military tech that’s supposed to give your troops an advantage in combat?

Pure speculation here... the only ground combat scenario Israel really has to worry about is with Hezbollah. So the calculation must be that either Iran doesn't have the materials expertise to manufacture this, or else they can and Israel has either compromised the supply chain, has technology to see through it on some other part of the EM spectrum, or both. For all we know it lights up like a Christmas tree if you h…

> the only ground combat scenario Israel really has to worry about is with Hezbollah

They invaded Gaza in 2014, killing 2,310 (of which 70% were civilians.)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Gaza_War

Re: Israeli camouflage tech makes soldiers ‘invisible’

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Actual pictures of what it looks like. https://polarisolutions.com/2021/01/16/the-new-camouflage-fo... Pretty neat, but it’s traditional camouflage which is custom to different environments.

That's... underwhelming. From the title I was expecting some sort of adaptive camouflage from ghost recon future soldier[1] or something.

[1] https://youtu.be/ufqtU8ByDYs?t=130

Re: Israeli camouflage tech makes soldiers ‘invisible’

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post #25

Actual pictures of what it looks like. https://polarisolutions.com/2021/01/16/the-new-camouflage-fo... Pretty neat, but it’s traditional camouflage which is custom to different environments.

That's... underwhelming. From the title I was expecting some sort of adaptive camouflage from ghost recon future soldier[1] or something. [1] https://youtu.be/ufqtU8ByDYs?t=130

Yup. Me too

Re: Israeli camouflage tech makes soldiers ‘invisible’

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pure speculation here... the only ground combat scenario Israel really has to worry about is with Hezbollah. So the calculation must be that either Iran doesn't have the materials expertise to manufacture this, or else they can and Israel has either compromised the supply chain, has technology to see through it on some other part of the EM spectrum, or both. For all we know it lights up like a Christmas tree if you h…

> the only ground combat scenario Israel really has to worry about is with Hezbollah They invaded Gaza in 2014, killing 2,310 (of which 70% were civilians.) 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Gaza_War

True. But for a variety of political reasons within Israel, a ground invasion of Gaza is unlikely to happen again within the next 5 years, if ever. If it were going to happen, it would have happened in May. Also, Hamas has no ability to bring fighters into Israel proper, whereas Hezbollah poses a real threat of cross-border incursion. That's where the existence of some kind of advanced cloaking technology falling into Iranian hands becomes a concern for Israel. It wouldn't be very useful in street-to-street combat in Gaza, but in hills and fields along the Lebanese border it could cause a lot of problems for them.

Re: Israeli camouflage tech makes soldiers ‘invisible’

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> we actually registered a patent on it in many countries around the world Isn’t this counter-productive for military tech that’s supposed to give your troops an advantage in combat?

this isn't particularly crazy technology that no one will be able to manufacture. Once you field it everyone else will copy it. From a benefit perspective you benefit from fielding it, but also controlling the patent in other countries where you can license/sell it to orgs you approve.

Enemy countries will always violate your patents and make their own, so might as well extract maximum benefit while you can.

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