Next to the invisible signature!

The innovative 3D invoice TactiCam camouflage from ArmorWorks has the potential to reduce vehicle signatures in the radio, infrared and visible spectrum. The outer layer of TactiCam material is randomly formed into a three-dimensional structure with various geometric shapes having different depth levels. This computer-generated messy structure reflects the energy from the machine at random, preventing the object from being detected by optoelectronic and millimeter sensors. This material can be used with materials that absorb / reduce infrared or radar radiation, and can also be filled with insulating material, which reduces its own thermal radiation and heat from excessive solar heat.

For millions of years, the animal kingdom has created innovative ways of camouflage, but people are comparative newcomers to this art. The masking of military vehicles for mixing them with the external environment, which has been used in practice for more than a century, has developed by leaps and bounds over the past decade.

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Visible spectrum

Therefore, techniques for reducing vehicle signatures should focus on four separate tasks, namely, reducing acoustic, thermal, visible, infrared and radio frequency signatures. Of course, the world's best scientific and engineering minds still have to create such a machine, in which all these signatures are reduced to zero. To do this, you must actually “hide” the machine, and thus make it invisible, but today it definitely belongs to the field of science fiction. In addition, the business of reducing signatures is based on trade-offs: for example, it may and would be easier to reduce the radio frequency signature of the machine, but only by increasing the visual signature. Consequently, the designers and machine operators must to some extent reach a compromise in the signature reduction mechanisms they have chosen to use. Around the world, active work is being done so that future generations of ground combat vehicles would be harder to see compared to their predecessors, and existing machines could accept those improvements that would further reduce their signatures.

JLTV

In several projects of promising military machines, signature reduction techniques are widely used. One example is the JLTV perspective vehicle program, which aims to create for the American army a marine corps and special operations forces to replace the existing HMMWV family. Unlike its predecessor, JLTV was created from the very beginning with an eye to participating in high intensity battles. Methods for reducing signatures are contained in the JLTV requirements, which include a smoke screen setting system to mask the machine from conventional visual detection, laser designator and weapons laser-guided.

CARC

Currently, the United States Marines and Army use the CARC (Chemical Agent Resistant Coating) system. This paint and varnish coatings of various colors and shades are designed for camouflage vehicles used by these types of troops. Along with a decrease in the visual signature of the machine due to the actual masking effect of the CARC coating, there are several other qualities. Firstly, these substances are completely non-absorbing and therefore chemical and biological substances are not kept on the surfaces of the machine and therefore they are easy to clean from foreign substances of this kind. Secondly, these coatings have some impressive properties that help reduce heat signature. One of the shades of green available from the CARC palette has a smaller IR signature than chlorophyll. After covering the car with this shade it becomes quite difficult to detect it with thermal imaging devices in a wooded area.

The ADAPTIV camouflage system from BAE Systems is a coating of hexagonal tiles attached to the surface of the machine, which is controlled by sophisticated software. This system actually makes the car invisible to IR sensors.


Video presentation system ADAPTIV with Russian subtitles

ADAPTIV

The technology ADAPTIV from BAE Systems uses hexagonal tiles (pixels) mounted on the surface of the machine. Cameras placed on the machine are able to scan the terrain for information on the background IR radiation of the environment surrounding the machine. Next, the voltage is applied to the tiles in order to change their temperature, which allows them to “merge” with the surrounding thermal environment. Pixels can also be heated to produce a thermal signature similar to the signature of another vehicle, such as a civilian car or truck. Another useful feature of this technology is that it can be used to broadcast a unique thermal identification tag of “your car”. BAE Systems has already tested the ADAPTIV system aboard its CV90 tracked BMP.

Intermat

Greek company Intermat has been working on reducing signatures since 1989 of the year. Then the company began its activities to create a coating that could be used on military vehicles to reduce the visual and thermal signatures. As a result, a series of reducing signatures of paints with the characteristic name CHAMELEON was obtained. These colors at Intermat say that they “minimize, and in some cases,“ nullify ”the thermal signatures of any vehicle or building and externally present it for a thermal imager or armament with IR guidance much colder than the surrounding terrain. The rocket will lose its target, and the car will merge with the background when viewed through a thermal imaging device. " Along with these coatings, the company produces other signature-reducing materials that can be used on military vehicles. These include "wheel covers and windshields, self-adhesive camouflage anti-thermal systems and anti-thermal fabrics." One example, which the company cites, is the work performed for the self-propelled installation of the MLRS HIMARS - a platform that "always moves and shoots in different conditions." The Intermat solution includes anti-thermal coatings, wheel covers and glass coatings, plus self-adhesive anti-thermal camouflage to protect moving parts of the machine. The result, the company says, is the following: “The moving units and tactical capabilities are not affected in any way. We added stealth without any negative impact on the original capabilities of the machine. "

Intermat's Chameleon Series coatings can be used on machines of various sizes, helping to reduce their thermal and visual signatures. These coatings are offered either in the form of paints or in the form of adhesive materials.

HUMVEE on the right in the picture is closed with the usual camouflage CARC, on the left, Intermat CHAMELEON has been applied to the car (except for the wheels). The car in the center of the wheel and the body are covered with Intermat coatings.

The company prefers to remain in the shadows, given that the armed forces around the world are actively acquiring its products, which reduce signatures. Although they do not hide there that it was applied on various platforms, including the Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann LEOPARD and Nexter LECLERC MBT; BAE Systems M113 and Russian BMP, as well as universal cars HUMVEE.

Swedish signature reduction system

Saab Barracuda provides solutions across the entire spectrum of systems for reducing unmasking signs. These specialized systems, created to match both the object and its environment, provide the necessary level of protection. In other words, a full range of custom signature management solutions that provide multispectral protection for any object in any situation.

Armored vehicles are used to support combat operations in a wide range of environments with constantly changing threats and their intensity. Since cars are most vulnerable while driving, mobile camouflage is a very important part of equipment. Saab Barracuda offers various mobile camouflage solutions. Not only these solutions protect against enemy sensors and the detection of the enemy, for example, HeaT Reduction System, also reduces the internal temperature of the machines, thereby increasing the efficiency of personnel and the life of electronic equipment.

Mobile Camouflage System Camouflage System (MCS) by Saab Barracuda (photo and video above) is designed to provide protection for stationary and moving vehicles. The basis of the MCS is a non-reflective surface on which a three-dimensional pattern is superimposed. This system helps to reduce not only visual and infrared signatures, it also provides a certain level of protection against radar detection and armament with radar guidance.

TactiCAM

The company ArmorWorks has developed its system of three-dimensional panels TactiCAM (see the first photo), which covers the surface of the machine. TactiCAM works through the use of randomly generated 3D forms that contribute to the disruption and deformation of the visual signature of the machine. In addition, these panels can be filled with special materials to reduce the thermal signature of the machine and at the same time reduce the amount of solar heat absorbed by the machine during the day. This is a very important parameter.

BLACK FOX

Israeli companies, such as Eltics, have occupied an impressive niche in the field of reducing military vehicle signatures. It is quite possible due to the fact that Israeli vehicles regularly participate in hostilities, specialized technologies, such as the BLACK FOX system from Eltics, appeared in this country. BLACK FOX can be installed on the machine either in the form of panels on top of existing armor, or as part of multilayer armor to reduce the thermal signature of the machine. Eltics began developing the BLACK FOX system in 2006, and since then it has demonstrated the capabilities of this system in providing protection for stationary and moving military vehicles. The product is designed to be installed on almost all surfaces of the vehicle, including the roof, which is often particularly vulnerable to detection. At the same time, Eltics noted that it is not necessary to close the entire machine with the BLACK FOX system in order to provide an impressive level of reduction in thermal signature. Even covering a part of the surface of a machine ensures that its thermal signature fails to some extent, and as a result, the efficiency of thermal imaging equipment is appropriately reduced.

Demonstration of the system BLACK FOX on the example of one panel

Video demonstration of the BLACK FOX system

The BLACK FOX system is based on two panoramic cameras mounted on the machine and scanning the surrounding space on 360 °. This final scan enters the image processing computer, which then projects an image similar to the background on the panels attached to the machine. Each panel contains thousands of pixels that are controlled by a digital processor. They produce a thermal signature similar to the thermal signature environment. In this regard, the BLACK FOX system is akin to the ADAPTIV technology developed by BAE Systems. The IR resolution of each pixel is adjustable in the 3 - 5 and 8 - 12 micron range, and the panels can be installed in particularly hot areas of the machine, for example, on the exhaust pipe or gun barrel. Since the cameras constantly scan the horizon, they are able to change the thermal signature of the car, both in motion and in the parking lot.

Ukrainian Machine-Building Plant. Morozova offers a number of signature products for customers of armored vehicles, such as side screens to cover and camouflage tracks and wheels

Graphite foam

In the future, new and emerging materials will offer a significant reduction in vehicle signatures. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States proposes the use of HCGF (Highly Conductive Graphite Foam) electrically conductive graphite foam development as a means of reducing vehicle thermal signatures. Graphite foam has two particularly useful properties: it is an excellent conductor of heat, but it is extremely light. Military vehicles receive two advantages here: foam contributes to cooling the main components exposed to intense heat, such as an engine, radiators and brakes, and at the same time reduces thermal signatures. The possibility of using HCGF as a heat sink is close to this, which theoretically would allow smaller radiators to be installed on heavy armored vehicles. This would contribute to reducing the overall mass of the machine and the design of housing designs that are less susceptible to radio frequency detection. In addition, the laboratory's official brochures state that HCGF reduces the electromagnetic and acoustic signature of the machine. This is achieved due to the excellent sound-absorbing characteristics and good electrical conductivity, which contributes to the absorption of radar waves. Such materials could offer another vehicle signature reduction mechanism in the future.

Never before has the problem of reducing the various signatures of vehicles — thermal, radio frequency, acoustic, and visible — been so acute. Advanced detection tools are no longer the prerogative of several armies capable of financially allowing various detection tools. Now in any large store you will find quite affordable equipment: night vision digital cameras and even thermal imaging equipment. Such civilian devices can easily be used by rebels in the field to localize and target military vehicles. Not to mention the widespread worldwide advanced sensory devices for use in high-intensity combat. Good ones news for combat vehicle operators, the methods and materials for reducing signatures are becoming more sophisticated and less expensive. The ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu noted that the whole war is based on deception. Current and future vehicle signature reduction techniques take his prediction into the future.

Materials used:
Military Technology 2 / 2013
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http://www.saabgroup.com

Comments

[ICT]

it is interesting to compare nanotechnology and collective farm tuning such as this

[AVV]

Quote: TIT

it is interesting to compare nanotechnology and collective farm tuning such as this

It was necessary to tint glassy !!!

[Kir]

Is this a personal tank of a leader or leader?

[satate]

Collective farm tuning of the type presented is much more effective than Chubayson's nanotechnology, believe me, especially if it is wet, but not with a nanofluid, but with a simple water.

[Nayhas]

Interesting work and results. But apparently the main results so far are only thermal disguise ...

[Cat]

Quote: Nayhas

But apparently the main results so far are only thermal disguise ...

Which is not surprising, since IR channels are most effective.
Detection and recognition of targets in the visual range is associated with a hemorrhoid pattern recognition algorithm - and nothing better than a person so far, and radar involves the use of a radiation source, which is fraught with ..

[Voronbit]

image recognition algorithms in the visible range are already quite perfect (people are still cooler), but such a technique. like a tank has a lot of other loops ... and it seems to me that the future is completely different to the principle of invisibility

[Voronbit]

Yes, and the price - quality - while it is doubtful

[Kir]

That's right, you noticed that "...... has a lot of other loops", so it turns out that when they talk about invisibility this is nothing more than advertising chatter, since in reality only what is not visible is not visible, and then any especially moving body gives birth to around itself even weak? but the field, and that actually at the time of the appearance of camouflage coatings from the instruments most often used to fix the object, or even earlier, "interferes" with the appearance of equipment detecting the object on other grounds (I apologize for the confusion). Suffice it to look at the fact that radars were already in operation before the mass jet aircraft, although propeller-driven ones were also detected by sound. and how many years have been invented and interference and other tricks, well, yes, the probability of detection is reduced by some value, but they shoot down, just remember the downed "iron" f-117, and how much talk about it ...

[Voronbit]

a large number of sensors and the collection of parameters affects an avalanche of solutions .... and the correct one is to hit the target ...... look for the way in the algorithm of your approach to the problem

[Vasia kruger]

And what's the point of all this? Why fence a garden with camouflage from high-tech detection tools if all those who have them jointly kick all sorts of Papuans?

[wolfhunter2035]

Money! that’s the whole point! In all countries (especially in the USA) there is corruption in military affairs, so to speak, and they inspire the government with the idea: They say it's cool, it will hide our equipment and kill the enemy, we don’t know how!

[Mikhail3]

The direction is quite entertaining. But for now, as I understand it, stillborn. Well, that is grandmas swing from budgets is quite suitable, and so ... A cold machine and so merges with the environment, just throw any rag mats. And the hot one will be somehow disguised until it overheats. Heat must be put somewhere. So I ruined the devices so as not to see all these innovative specks, but just peck at a large heat source, you will not be mistaken.
Need a screen. Which is not there. A screen is needed for radiation of a wide spectrum, visible and IR, small, well-controlled, not inferior in strength to metal or at least plastic like kapron, and radiation should not be interrupted until the screen is completely physically destroyed. All this can be done, even now. But it is necessary to fulfill the basic requirement, the fulfillment of all of what I have listed completely, this requirement will not outweigh the tenth. The screen should be cheap. Very cheap. But this is a pitchfork ... There is no such thing, and nothing is visible in the waves. I think that these hexagonal pixels oh how they stand, even oh oh oh. Which makes all projects PR and bullshit. They’ll come up with a screen ....

[satate]

"Well, that is, to pump money from budgets ..." - this is not correct. Today, a well-visible car is a typical example of pumping money out of the budget. And this is so. Developers do not want to spend money and drive "targets" into the army. It is difficult to imagine what will happen if God forbid it buzzes. And there will be a shooting gallery ...

[makarov]

". To do this it is necessary to actually 'hide' the machine, and thus make it invisible, but today it is definitely in the realm of science fiction ..."

For those who consider this a fantasy, 10 years ago it turned out to be productive ..

[Voronbit]

for the Belarusian intelligence machine, where it didn’t go, for the realities of the battle, crap, wasted money

[yehat]

I am sure that a fabric coating that reduces radically IR, promotes heat dissipation and absorbs radio emission can already be made, and in combination with camouflage painting this is a very good static protection.
If you don’t detect the target visually - you can’t aim it with a laser, and in the other 2 ranges it’s empty, then how can you find and hit such a target until it wants it?
The price of this device will be sane. And this is a good means of NATO aviation.

[Echo]

... computers, camcorders, space scanning ... these camouflage systems are like a wing from an airplane, they go, more expensive than the camouflage vehicle itself.

While serving in the army, I myself took part in the "development" of methods of camouflage of military equipment, and the task was to hide this equipment both visually and from technical means of detection, including thermal imagers and radars. The solution of our guys was devilishly effective and at the same time so cheap that we were asked not to talk about our "scientific research" at all (read - boredom).

Everything is simple - ordinary foam and sheets of heat-insulating foam, from 5 cm thick, are taken, all this can be found at a reasonable price in construction stores of almost any more or less decent settlement. If you want to kill your neighbor-huckster's Kruzak, pour polyurethane foam on him - the result will exceed all your expectations! This foam will come off only with paint. But we are simple people, we do not have Kruzaks, but infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and other means of transportation for peaceful Soviet people. The polystyrene is bluntly glued to the polyurethane foam and adheres to it so that nothing can be removed. The first picture in this article shows a similar adhesive polymer camouflage, and says that the volumetric texture is "randomly generated by the computer." We "accidentally generated" this volumetric texture on our foam plastic by the efforts of three salagos, who were given potato scratches, oga. Salagi, brilliantly completing the task, in the West feasible only for a computer, received a pack of cookies and left happy.

The foam itself is loose, and therefore all sorts of branches, sticks and God knows what are perfectly stick into its scratched surface, so a "bush on caterpillars" can be easily made. In our case, there was a snow-covered polygon, and therefore we did nothing with the white foam, we just swept the road and sprinkled a little dust on it to create the effect of "something dirty that you don't want to look at." In summer conditions, the foam can be sprayed with a putty such as Vetonit or Sibirite (which can also be found in any hardware store in any city), can be painted from spray cans with paint (only one that does not dissolve the foam), or you can simply pour the whole car with liquid mud and smear her on the foam. Of course, in conditions of a peaceful base, such experimentation will cause a break in the pattern among the command, but in a war even that is not permissible. And if all of a sudden a techie needs to be brought into a state "to whistle and shine", all these foam polystyles are removed from the equipment in 10-15 minutes with an ordinary shovel, then the traces of foam are erased, the equipment is painted.

But the result is more important. Thus, we were freaking out over the old, no longer rolling BTR-50, which was sentenced to be “shot” at the firing range - helicopters and attack aircraft were supposed to practice night firing at it. We dragged the equipment to the landfill, and among all this scrap we put our "foam" BTR-50. Guys, you will laugh - but no one got into our camouflaged miracle ... because no one shot at him. It stupidly could not be detected from the air, and by no means at all, and then the pilots were already armed with night vision devices, thermal imagers, and radar detection equipment, including external ones.

About the incident was reported to the regiment commander, and we, the experimenters, entertainers, received a packet of cookies and left satisfied. On the demobilization.

Here is such a cool story.

[Mikhail3]

In-in! Only here it was most likely not to be replicated here, alas. Now everything fell into the analytics of a potential adversary. But in vain, on their own, before this, so clear, the decision by the same Americans would have come very, very soon, not so brains work. Well, you won’t seriously fight like that - overheating. Therefore, your APC was not detected that the engine did not produce heat.

[voliador]

Yes, scientific thought does not stand still. And we have all the camouflage - a bucket of paint for the arrival of the inspecting general.

[ed65b]

Painted pipelac But what profit and work for many years to artists. When will the works based on the sovereign of the ring and avatar be shown?

[crambol]

The author enticed a terribly scientific word SIGNATURE. And he used it in at least three different senses.

[crambol]

Quote: Echo

During my service in the army, I myself took part in the "development" of camouflage methods for military equipment,

Respected! You have a bunch of pluses and a hot pie with cabbage !! Just wonderful!!!

[Echo]

Quote: Mikhail3

In-in! Only here it was most likely not to be replicated here, alas. Now everything fell into the analytics of a potential adversary. But in vain, on their own, before this, so clear, the decision by the same Americans would have come very, very soon, not so brains work.

Yes bullshit-war. The events described took place in the late autumn of 1999, when no one in the West even dreamed of these "voluminous panels". We were then forced to write reports "about the amateur performances done", which resulted in the fact that we not only wrote reports, but also attached descriptions of all ideas, including those that were not implemented. When the regiment commander with the officers from the neighboring tank unit read them, they laughed so much that it was audible in the street. Then, in the last months of the reign of Borka-Alkonavt, our ideas may have been somewhat innovative, but now in the relevant divisions everyone knows about these "means of camouflage and additional booking from scrap materials". I personally checked it. When at the officer training camp I told that I myself, being a conscript, took part in the "trial filing", they simply did not believe me, because, in principle, everyone can think of this. It is enough just to be a little friends with physics.

Although, in fact, there were more interesting moments. So, for example, one of my friends suggested a drop dead replacement for lattice screens (so-called "chicken coops") on armored vehicles, as well as on-board rubber screens on tanks (which are then screwed onto DZ cubes). The problem is that during battles in settlements, and just on rough terrain, these chicken coops and screens break off sharp corners, the equipment is exposed and its protection goes to zero - this is very clearly visible, for example, on video from the current places of battles in Syria. Well, my friend even then suggested cutting down these gratings to hell and turning on the head. Moreover, his idea was so simple, and at the same time not obvious, that the people were simply swollen. It is implemented in any locksmith, flows around any obstacles, modular, easily restored by the crew itself in 5-10 minutes between battles, and at the same time, when the target is radioed, this thing distorts the signature of the armored vehicles itself so much that the operators' templates break - checked. This is not counting how the enemy's templates are torn at the sight of this system.
I can tell if it’s interesting.

The problem is that in the west, all these ultra-expensive systems are created by saw cutters and haulers. If you sell cheaply and cheerfully, then how can NATO generals and officials from the War Department organize themselves in villas?

[Mikhail3]

No need to tell, I seem to imagine Two modest uncles came to my station sometime in Soviet times, said that I was a new engineer, I was working recently ... and demanded a detailed report on how, in my opinion, to cause maximum damage to power plants. Or not the maximum, but still unpleasant.
I checked with the director to see if they were joking with me, and I carefully wrote such a report. Two months later, received a non-acidic premium without explanation. Apparently they liked something there. I really hope that at least part of this practice has survived and at least somehow be used. There are no such goals as our people have in the world, there have never been and never will be ....

[Mature naturalist]

Quote: Echo

it flows around any obstacles, it is modular, it is easily restored by the crew in 5-10 minutes in between battles, and at the same time, when radio-targeting, this thing distorts the signature of the armored vehicle itself

Chains? Rings? By the type of chain mail?
Here, for example, rings from beer cans (pictured).

[Kir]

Yeah ..........., we are especially well detectable (technology from "Black Fox"), but we see others, but on the other side there is a man with a Berdan, who cannot detect the scanner beam, Well, further in the text, with regards to the Greek technology, well, I don't know how it really is, but the fact that the picture of the car standing against the background of the farm is a product of Photoshop (or its analogues) is 100%, and quite crudely made. And by the way, and that jacquard machines are not named as the most "ancient" equipment with which you can "sculpt" 3D textile camouflage. And here is the commentary-story from Echo, honestly pleased that while the zakardonniki will drag carts with camouflage and servicemen for its maintenance Ours will make such a bungle out of the assistants that only they were "seen".

[Echo]

Quote: Mature Naturalist

Chains? Rings? By the type of chain mail?

Exactly. Chain mail. Just a little unusual.

A guy served with us, who, as I understand it, hung out before the army with some kind of Tolkienists, or some guys like them, who were just fond of creating such armor, weapons of all kinds (one thing I know for sure, a wooden dummy This guy twisted the knife so that I sincerely do not envy those urks who would take it into their heads to stop him in a dark corner - he himself will put whoever you want on a pen, and does not get out of breath). Well, it was this guy who suggested adding chain mail screens instead of "chicken coops" and rubber screens sitting on snot as side screens.

He weaved a piece of chain mail from wire and showed us, and then said that we need to do the same, but only as if greatly enlarged in scale, with rings not centimeters, but with an outer diameter of fifteen centimeters, and the rings themselves should not be made of wire, and a steel bar with a cross section of 6,5 mm. In principle, by that time, the technology of the so-called. They learned the "European weaving" (as it turned out - absolutely nothing complicated), and got down to business. Unlike wire, you cannot bend a steel bar with your hands, and therefore we stupidly adapted a lathe for this business: we simply inserted a pipe of the corresponding diameter into the chuck and wound the springs. Then they cut them with a grinder, got rings, and weaved a piece of cloth just the right size to hang the side of the tank with it. What was especially good - through the gaps between the rings on long bolts it was possible to very comfortably fasten the DZ Contact-5 blocks, and on top of them, the foam cut into squares sat stupidly on the wire (here, as I understand it, how fantasy works). The screen even for the buz DZ turned out to be not lightweight, we only carried it three together, but it was attached directly to the tank very securely - in fact, each outer ring served as a mount, and even if half of them came off, the screen would still hold just fine. And one more thing - we did not weld or rivet the rings - we simply connected them in a joint, the strength of the steel rod itself was enough in abundance. The three of us spent half a day on all the action, including winding the rings, sawing them and assembling the screen, and this despite the fact that we ourselves did not really know what we were doing.

[Echo]

Continued ...

This story had a continuation. The tankers found out about our next "inclinations" and demanded a "novelty" for themselves to see. It all ended with the fact that they took the screen to the shooting range and began to beat at it with a grenade launcher, well, they asked us from our command to make sure that "your invention is complete bullshit, it will not work." Three shots were fired at the screen from an RPG-7, shots from a PG-7V - they simply hung the screen on a steel beam and started shooting at it. The first shot knocked out six or eight rings, we just ran to the hanging screen and inserted new rings in a couple of minutes. The lieutenant missed the second shot, and an emergency occurred with the third. The fact is that when hit, this screen behaved like a blanket that is knocked out of the dust, it sagged under impact ... after all, chain mail is, in the words of my fellow Tolkienist, "metal and fabric at the same time." The grenade launcher shot, apparently, hit the detonator on the nose just between the rings, did not reach the detonation amplitude and simply fell to the ground. In the end, the sappers were summoned, but these nets also decided that what was needed, and then the officers simply shot a shot from a sniper rifle lying on the ground. After that, we were discharged verbal lyulya for inappropriate "kulibinstvo" and sent back to the unit. Where that first piece of chain mail went, I don't know. I know something else - many years later, a friend at the training camp repeated the experiment, and came to interesting conclusions. On the radar, such a chain mail cloth, hung on the tank, gives some kind of strange illumination, greatly distorting the profile of the tank and making it difficult to identify it (this is not counting the sticking of everyone who sees such a miracle). As a shield against cumulative means of destruction, it works excellently, destroying the focusing distance of the cumulative jet to hell, and at the same time itself almost without collapsing - weaving new rings in a matter of minutes. Unlike the "chicken coop", the chain mail does not cling to sharp corners, but flows around them like a cloth, and besides, if necessary, the chain mail can be thrown onto the fenders of the tank (though you need a lot of strength), while the "chicken coop" has to be cut off, then re-weld that hemorno. Of the minuses - the assembly of the screen cannot be automated, but with proper skill, the availability of materials, a lathe and a welding machine, in a few hours in a locksmith, you can "braid" a tank without problems.
The experiments were carried out by a friend on the BREM-1 and the T-55 tank at the Yurginsky tank training ground.

[Mikhado]

Comrade, just fucking - chain mail like a screen! Well, on the surface, an idea, centuries of experience, the Israelis came close to this with their balls on chains under the stern of the tower, but then they obviously scored it. And here - right on your knee, in any workshop! The Syrians would have a hint of something.

[Victor-M]

Why don't they come up with passive protection for tanks in the form of scales, but with an overlap of scales up, so that when a shell hits them, they will simply be torn off and at the same time a shell rebound? Nature itself gives clues, because try to sharpen a large fish, and even at an angle, you will only remain with the scales.

[Mikhado]

There is still a Soviet patent, but something did not work, it was still in the 50s, maybe it only worked on caliber bb, in general, it didn’t take off.

[yehat]

there are special shells - with a cut off tip, so that the probability of a rebound is reduced and the prison can be made blunt - for big fish ...

[satate]

The article is necessary, useful, timely. Thanks to the author. There is a lot of "misinformation" in advertising brochures, on which part of the article is based, but experts, I think, distinguish flies from cutlets.

[jt_elven]

technology decides