Some Ukrainian soldiers sent to learn modern combat techniques in the UK, Spain, Germany or Poland are now feeling disappointed. When faced with an emergency, they sometimes find more help on YouTube.
Circa 2014 I found one of those crazy chud American doomsday preppers on YouTube that had somehow managed to make a ghillie suit which was invisible to thermal optics. I think he was planning to fight Obama/the land management authorities if they did something to his ranch? So maybe stuff like that.
100% he is in prison for drug, guns, tax, or assault charges. Most of those guys end up like that.
Or a lot of them have undiagnosed mental diseases and disorders, and they get help for them which causes them to abandon and try to distance themselves from their previous interests.
Yeah it was a space blanket/mylar, but to prevent themselves overheating from wearing the suit, they cut and layered it like scales on a fish, so that there could be airflow, then just normal ghillie suit stuff. At least that's what I remember.
I know if you're on the cheaper end of the tech spectrum wool blankets offer the same amount of thermal/IR immunity so for individuals it can offer short term cover - until the blanket heatsinks your body heat into it - and collective protection when used as a form of tarp in conjunction with camo netting and other natural camoflage.
Gotta be careful if it gets wet too. If its warm anyways, the extra thermal mass the blanket will take on will reduce its effectiveness if the blanket is touching you.
Though, if its cold enough to freeze water... you could soak a wool blanket, stretch it out, and I bet when it freezes solid it'd be useful.
Yeah shit like that. Practical shit that could be universally learned so should we ever find ourselves in the shit we'll hopefully increase our own life expectancy.
Circa 2014 I found one of those crazy chud American doomsday preppers on YouTube that had somehow managed to make a ghillie suit which was invisible to thermal optics. I think he was planning to fight Obama/the land management authorities if they did something to his ranch? So maybe stuff like that.
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The guy was obviously nuts, but still smart. I wonder what happened to him.
100% he is in prison for drug, guns, tax, or assault charges. Most of those guys end up like that.
Or a lot of them have undiagnosed mental diseases and disorders, and they get help for them which causes them to abandon and try to distance themselves from their previous interests.
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Mylar backed camo pattern tarp with netting?
Yeah it was a space blanket/mylar, but to prevent themselves overheating from wearing the suit, they cut and layered it like scales on a fish, so that there could be airflow, then just normal ghillie suit stuff. At least that's what I remember.
That’s smart. Sounds like something I’d like to invest time into.
I think they also did some experiments with glass because the thermal optics can't see through it I think? Was pretty interesting
Thermal optics are picking up on Infra-Red radiation, yeah? I wonder if UV treated glass/plastic is what they were tinkering with...
I know if you're on the cheaper end of the tech spectrum wool blankets offer the same amount of thermal/IR immunity so for individuals it can offer short term cover - until the blanket heatsinks your body heat into it - and collective protection when used as a form of tarp in conjunction with camo netting and other natural camoflage.
Gotta be careful if it gets wet too. If its warm anyways, the extra thermal mass the blanket will take on will reduce its effectiveness if the blanket is touching you.
Though, if its cold enough to freeze water... you could soak a wool blanket, stretch it out, and I bet when it freezes solid it'd be useful.
Yeah shit like that. Practical shit that could be universally learned so should we ever find ourselves in the shit we'll hopefully increase our own life expectancy.