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Russians began to use "Shahed" drones painted in black to make it more difficult to detect at night.
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Source: https://t.me/noel_reports/5460
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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Interesting question here:
This is obviously worthless against radar detection or thermal vision, but useful against low tech visual shooting (that probably has a very low share of successful interception anyway).
So what's the actual prevalence in night vision tech? Does (usually digitally based nowadays) low-light amplification make up a big enough share that this is not just another coping mechanism?
@Ooops @LaFinlandia The paint will certainly make detection harder. Night vision is impressive, yet still is worse than daylight in every way.
A narrower field of view, loss of colors, need to manually focus, loss of depth perception*, and increased difficulty in using weapons are all downsides. Black paint against a night sky won't make any of those better.
(*can vary based on the device/number of tubes)
I’m honestly a little surprised that there aren’t like “emp rifles” or something that can’t just handle this.