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Old 01-18-11, 10:14 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Castout View Post
But with heat signature sensor and radar signature sensor visual camouflage is getting more and more less important to worth a technological pursuit such as this. Unless you're talking about being totally transparent. Now that's being invisible.
Well, Castout, I'm sort of specifically talking about MBTs/AFVs, where combat usually boils down to, "You have to see it to hit/kill it." I probably could have said it better than I did. Even with ATGMs like Javelin, you have to be able to at least see the target well enough to get that shot off.
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