Re: Tank vision systems

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Roger Books wrote:

> How do you defeat passive sensors that rely on the environment? 
Anything
> that takes out the sensors takes out the electronics in the tank which
> takes out the tank.

Smoke? Chemicals? Something that reacts with optical sensors not coated 
with "X" optical coating? Nanites? What have you. 

Camo has gotten to the point that most of a soldiers kit is transparent 
to radar.  The only thing not transparent is the rifle and ammo. 

> If you can describe a countermeasure that keeps the tank from seeing
> but doesn't stop a mark I eyeball I would be interested in hearing
> it.  (And heavy weapons stop the eyeball also :)

Its a matter of having a number of options open, not relying totally on 
the electronics. You propose relying totally on the electronics, or so
it 
seems. 

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