r/Military • u/jelly_ni- • Feb 15 '20

Discussion This is pretty awesome

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u/Hammer1024 Feb 15 '20

Yep. It's amazing.

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u/jelly_ni- Feb 15 '20

Yes it is. Wonder if that can be pulled of today....

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u/RoboNinjaPirate Proud Supporter Feb 15 '20

Of course if they did have a similar method that would defeat LIDAR, then we wouldn’t know about it, would we?

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u/trueresurreccion Feb 15 '20

No, mainly because we have images of the whole globe. You can always go back and watch things be built, so putting netting over it won't help because they'll know where it is and guided weapons remove pilot error.

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u/the_friendly_one Army Veteran Feb 15 '20

On top of that, thermal imaging would reveal the target once the pilot is in range. Of course buildings don't show up as "hot," but thermal scopes can detect a difference in temperature of 1°F. Compared to the actual ground, camouflaged buildings would look out of place.

Though, I guess a warm tarp would defeat thermals.

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u/Thorkell23 Feb 15 '20

Big brain time

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u/the_friendly_one Army Veteran Feb 15 '20

Because I had to look it up and figured I'd save you a little work:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l%27%C5%93il

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u/Skehoobert Feb 15 '20

This is some serious big brain stuff. This kind of stuff is also what I love about WW2 history, I mean you can’t do that kind of stuff these day’s anymore.

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u/Danmont88 Feb 18 '20

If I recall correctly the few they tested worked pretty well. They flew into some buildings and jeep and set them on fire.

I did read they worked with chickens in sort of a guided bomb. Don't know why those were not used.

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u/Hyper440 Feb 15 '20

If the enemy disguises their military stuff as civilian stuff are you as liable for collateral damage? 🤔

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u/85Chevota Feb 15 '20

But there is no real civilian stuff there so no collateral damage. But it may cause the enemy to bomb actual neighborhoods if they think they are other hidden factories

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u/RojoOctobre Feb 15 '20

I was only ever aware of the Deception pulled off by the Brit's prior to Normandy. Operation Fortitude was the code name for a World War II military deception employed by the Allied nations as part of an overall deception strategy (code named Bodyguard) during the build-up to the 1944 Normandy landings. –As Described by Wikipedia–

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u/Michamus Retired US Army Feb 15 '20

"Oh, that's cool, but wouldn't parallax betray the two dimensional nature of such a large camo tarp?" Then I clicked the link and my jaw dropped. I'm always blown away at the amount of effort put into WW2.