Russians Beware: Use Thermal Camo Correctly, or Get Droned
Russian troops are wearing thermal blankets to hide them from Ukraine's lethal infrared-sensing night drones—but they’re wearing them all wrong ... and it’s getting them killed
The Russian military knows it has a nighttime camouflage problem. It’s begun circulating a field manual instructing befuddled troops on the proper fit for their thermal blankets.
The main point, according to the manual, is to make sure the blanket isn’t warmer than the nighttime landscape. “Before putting on the anti-heat-vision cape, it should be taken outside in advance and cooled by hanging it in the shade for at least one hour,” the manual advises, according to a translation posted online by Canadian drone expert “Roy.” “It is necessary in order for the cape to reach ambient temperature.”
By the same token, soldiers should make sure their thermal camo isn’t cooler than the landscape. That advice is a matter of life and death.
Consider what happened to a trio of Russian troops that tried to sneak across open terrain toward the front line presumably somewhere around Novomykolaivka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast in late June.
Read the rest at Euromaidan Press.
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