From article “When our IR lasers, our IR strobes, our IR illumination or our IR spotlights are radiating, they can easily be seen using cheap digital cameras”
OH so true and as well true for the friend or foe IR beacons used by boots mentioned and enhancers on NVG. These things make you a great target.
Thermal and FLIR can also be defeated by sheet plastic held overhead above column of people essentially eliminating heat signature of bodies underneath from above.
Many ways to defeat todays techno crap and these people, like the article says have had 11 years to do it in.
Yeah, many ways to defeat our tech:
“They killed two US Marines, one of them a commanding officer, and they wiped out roughly 8 percent of our Harrier jet force.”
That’s unbelievable. We’re on the defensive there. Obama’s ROE’s and strategy is a formula for defeat.
Motion detectors, Microphones, NVG on sentries. Dogs, Barbed wire, Inner wire, Outer Wire, Dead Zone, Mines, Radar, Watchtowers, Guard Patrol, WTF? Over. I get the creepy feeling that this attack would have been spotted and dealt with summarily in WWI.
Am I nuts or is this "Apaches sneaking up on the fort" stuff? What, exactly, TF happened here? Officers and men killed. 8 Harriers destroyed. Some heads ought to roll here.