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Originally Posted by Growler
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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On ground vehicles like MBTs and IFVs, targets within a 2000m range or so get detected with thermal displays first. And often you do not have longer lines of sight in terrain anyway, especially not in woods and hills. At ranges in excess of this, projected camera picture son hulls cannot be seen by the eye anyhow, so this new camouflage certainly is meant to be used at relatively short ranges. Interesting is the vehicle list they plan to equip with this camouflage. No heavy Chally-2 there, no heavy IFV there, if I get that right.
This camouflage probably is not meant for genertal use, but only for vehicles expected to be operating in scenarios/environments where there is no stiff resistence by MBTs and IFVs expected, but infantry/militia/guerilla/pickups/technicals not having NVGs and thermals in use.
I wonder if and how this camouflage works at night, and in heavy rain, and how it looks with NVGs.