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Perhaps not for a piece of kit with the word “night” in the name.
by transcriptase 3y ago
Perhaps not for a piece of kit with the word “night” in the name.
- icegreentea2 3y agoSoldiers don't wear black at night... they wear their normal uniforms. And the uniforms have plenty of both green and tan on them. Tan is useful because it turns out it's a element of both temperature and arid environments.
- closewith 3y agoBlack has been shown to be more observable at night than other colours, hence why it's not used, even for operations only undertaken in darkness.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoA Ghillie suit with a Mitznefet and irregular face paint breaks up the human form a bit.
- some_random 3y agoOh this is a fun one, night camouflage is actually a bad idea and makes you more observable! The intuitive solution to low light camo is black right, so you can "blend into shadow" right? But the problem is that you're not "blending into shadow", you're blending into your surroundings that happen to be in shadow, so you actually want to be the same color even if it's a light color. Otherwise you stand out by being too dark! *There are other considerations of course, reflectivity (including in the NIR spectrum) is a much larger concern in low light conditions for instance.