Indian air base painted with graffiti camouflage to disorient targeting systems

A new camouflage technique has been spotted on the net, which was used by the Indian military to protect the air base in Jodhpur, located near the border with Pakistan.

From the photographs, aircraft hangars, parking and taxiing areas, runways were painted with graffiti disguise depicting objects of various shapes and sizes. As Chinese observers suggest, this was done in order "to confuse enemy optics and pilots."

The fact is that missiles with homing heads equipped with means of optical recognition of enemy targets are becoming more widespread in the world. They are equipped with a computer, in whose memory the signature of various enemy equipment, including its visual characteristics, is entered. When a target is identified, an automatic command to strike is triggered. A disorienting pattern can play a role here.

Graffiti covering the airbase will interfere with guidance systems, interfering with the process of detecting enemy equipment by “blurring” the overall picture with additional images. In this "visual clutter", both the rocket's computer and the pilot from high altitude may not be up to the task of recognizing targets.

At the moment, there are no known cases of attacks on objects using graffiti camouflage. Accordingly, it is difficult to judge the effectiveness of this "camouflage" method.

Comments

[tralflot1832]

And how did the Indians guess that the missiles "flying" to their air base would think "Indian"?

[Grandfather]

there it is necessary to dance and sing, and not to draw on concrete.

[Mountain shooter]

And also dances and songs help... It's not difficult to check it all. Launched the guidance system, and see if it works or not.

[I dare to_notice_]

"Indian airbase painted with graffiti camouflage to disorient guidance systems
Not new.
But... effective!

[Alex_ekb]

In the Second World War, they were more camouflaged.

,en

[Glory1974]

Pokryshkin, in his memoirs, wrote about the airfield on which the Nazis painted bomb craters, other destruction and our aviation did not touch it, they thought that it was not used. When we moved to this airfield, I hardly forced myself to sit down, the destruction of the runway looked so real.
So the method is not new, it is effective under certain conditions.

[Andy_nsk]

Is it weak for ours to draw "White Swans", "Bears" and "Backfires"?

[solar]

Camouflage by the Americans during the war of the aircraft factory
It was

It became

[Vic Vic]

And will their own pilots cope with the landing approach? They may not see their own airfield.

[Tu-16]

In my opinion, such a disguise has a downside - the difficulty when landing on their own airfields.

[Dost]

Well, not a bad idea. At the parking lot, draw the planes themselves in 3D style. Like on the streets. Thus creating the illusion of their presence on the spot. How buildings were painted in Leningrad during the war.

[sifgame]

The 3D picture on the pavement is only visible from one angle.

[Dost]

The satellite sees at one angle, under itself.

[sifgame]

Well, pranksters)))) but will they redraw at least once a week the locations of "aircraft" for greater persuasiveness?