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Those solar panels might disclose your location. This is likely substantially more covert. There’s also a big benefit of refueling electric drones with this.
by bushbaba 5y ago
Those solar panels might disclose your location. This is likely substantially more covert.
There’s also a big benefit of refueling electric drones with this.
- Manuel_D 5y agoI'm not sure how passive solar panels would be more covert than actively emitting radiation. Solar panels may be more visible from satellite imagery, but your base is going to be visible anyway. Militaries have been focused on pinpointing micro-wave emitters for decades, it's foundational to detecting radar stations.
- lallysingh 5y agoThis would help hide the receiver of the power, no?
- walrus01 5y agoEven the smallest sort of COP or FOB is very obvious where it is - you aren't going to disguise any concrete t-walls, rows of stacked HESCO bastion, perimeter guard towers, etc. it's a whole construction project to erect one, anybody that lives in the area or has access to half-decent aerial photography is going to know fully where/what it is. putting up a big-ass tower with a flat microwave receiver array aimed somewhere towards the horizon is going to be even more obvious than ground mount solar.