Eye of the Drones: Evading and Avoiding Thermal Imaging

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   Ralph k on January 31, 2021 at 18:50

   Has anyone taken a look at the forceprotectorgear.com Thermashield products? Apparently they are in use by our forces in the Middle East. From the information available they seem to mitigate thermal signature very well and have other capability of use as well. Worth a look. Thought folks might benefit from this info.

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   Mas Casa on January 31, 2021 at 07:03

   I once saw Weapons System Video of two Afghans walking through knee high grass and bushes. They were clearly visible with IR. They they appeared to undo bedrolls and cover themselves and they were completely lost by IR. Those of us watching figured they were using wool blankets.

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   Luke on January 30, 2021 at 23:17

   Gonna keep checking this but I wanna know something. What if I had to go into a swamp? Is there any firearm you guys would recommend? Say I had to fully submerse my gun. Water (swamp) combat would be a good course to learn. In FL you have gators but sometimes you have no choice. If one must go into the muck and mire what is the best possible outcome to survive?

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     NC Scout on January 31, 2021 at 06:34

     The AK.

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     boss21 on January 31, 2021 at 21:24

     Year ago we threw an old A1 into a puddle. Left it sit for a few minutes. Put on welding mittens and face shield. Shook it a few times and dumped a mag. No issues except on close inspection a tiny ridge in the bore where the barrel stepped down for the threads from the hydraulic pressure I guess. Upper worked fine for years after.
     Did some experiments with thermal against a poncho liner last night at 3 degrees outside. It worked ok but heat blasted out along the quilting stitches.

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   Pk47 on January 30, 2021 at 08:41

   Not a bad video, but he’s off on some technical points. Tinfoil and thermal blankets have LOW emissivities, not high ones. They can be in the .05 to .2 range in the scale of zero to one. Organic materials are on the higher end, around .9

   You also have to remember emissivity is a surface property, not a material one. Only the first few Angstroms of the surface matter. Loo

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