His team’s liberal use of AI generated media to portray a historical context is what turned me off the Places channel. It’s good that this is free of AI so far.
@@four_20hitman___97I think it was from the office, during the part of this video where the gillee suit guy was running around it kept playing it over and over.
Top Gear made active camo 15 years ago. They pretty much proved the only reason no one uses active camo is because most vehicles don't get close enough for visual confirmation before firing weapons.
Finally someone recognizes this, I was disappointed that Simon did not note this in the video. Almost seems like a Project Pluto type issue in regards to safety on both sides.
Well...yea and no. As actual civilian vehicles are used in conflict already anyway... Also there are command posts and ammunition stashed in schools and hospitals too... Don't trust on the fairness of someone who wants to kill you.
This guy has gone directly to Predator 2. It would appear. Going straight for detecting your scent. Nothing hinting at a sociopath whatsoever 😂 It could do wonders for personal hygiene, though. NATO grade deodorant? 🤔
The MALD's radar deception is far beyond simple tuned radar reflectivity. It's essentially a disposeable EW aircraft. It not only deceives it's own signature, but creates phantom images as well. It creates radar echoes to create the illusion of many aircraft. A single MALD may present a radar signature showing the enemy IAD what looks like several inbound cruise missiles or strike aircraft. It may change the apparent altitude, speed and direction of these 'phantom' contacts to give the appearance of maneuvering aircraft. It can give the appearance of contacts much closer to the target than the real strike package actually is. This is immeasurably valuable, priceless, in the opening days of an air campaign. This causes an enemy to light up every radar, giving away their position. They fire SAMs at ghosts, wasting expensive missiles. They may exhaust their loaded, ready batteries which then begins the lengthy reload process and diminishing their stockpile. As the Israelis have used this tactic extensively in Syria, videos of Pantsir being killed while reloading abound. Deception is two thirds of battlefield strategy and MALD is a beast in this discussion of active camoflage as they shield, distract, and deceive the enemy in advance of the truly terrifying weapons arriving shortly after.
@icantthinkofaname4265 MALD is a big reason Russia's air defense has been consistently embarrassed. Whether in Syria or Ukraine, MALD and it's Israeli duplicate have made Russian air defense a meme. "What air defense doing?" Chasing ghosts.
@icantthinkofaname4265 Used in coordination with HARM, the deception isn't only a costly distraction, it also becomes suicide for Russian radar operators.
Right, but it's a mono spectrum tool. It doesn't simulate the thermal, visual or even auditory signatures. And that's the difficulty in adaptive camouflage. It needs to mask visual, thermal and potentially mm wave radars found in the active countermeasures made countries like Israel. The reason the mald is successful vs on ground systems in the mono spectrum (radar) is aircraft fly far to fast and are at ranges beyond identification via other spectrums. Which requires reactions before other verification can be made
@freedomwagonfilms7233 Nothing will ever be truly invisible. The best you can hope to do is counter whatever you determine to be your greatest threat. In the case of air defense penetration, that is radar. Detection by other means does not mean having the ability to successfully intercept. IR signature may give you the ability to see a cruise missile, but only in line of sight. Radar is still needed for most ranges. Radar operators have a very dangerous job unless deep in a bunker. Even then, that bunker is likely the primary target of the strike. Any confusion or loss of situational awareness stokes the human fear of imminent death. Since SEAD/DEAD is typically the opening salvos, it's a very rational fear. MALD is designed to confuse.
You did miss one which is actually a consumer piece of tech that could be used in military applications. BMW have been playing with e-ink paint which could easily be used for adaptive camo. Search e-ink car and you see several videos from the last year. Just FYI :)
I followed your suggestion and absolutely think this is the most promising tech. It's like the suit from MGS4. Framerate is low, but the potential for over 100+ traditional camo patterns in 1 vehicle, changable at a moment's notice, is hard to overlook.
I was wondering how that was missed as well. Top Gear did a video on it and then BMW has a much longer one on their own channel that goes more in depth.
It was still in the 2000s, perhaps in the early 2000s, when a buddy made a Halloween costume that looked like he had a gaping wound all the way through him. This was done with the use of a flexible display and a video camera hidden on his back. From many angles, it appeared that you could see right through him. I've since wondered how well this would work, especially in modern times, for camouflage. In theory, it'd be perfect. I suspect it'd be even better today.
@@galeng73 That was covered briefly in the video. You hang up a sheet and you project onto it. It only works from a single viewing angle, so you either need to be right in front of your background, or you have to know exactly where your observer is.
The Chinese 1 not only sounds like a potential war crime , but im pretty sure if the missile is close to the ground absolutely no one will believe it to be a passenger plane
@@Topo842 The US's decoy missiles don't pretend to be civilian aircraft. They pretend to be US military aircraft so that air defense resources are wasted on them or you can trick enemy air defenses to think there is a large amount of aircraft coming from different areas.
@@Topo842 That was referring to the MALD, which is a decoy system. In other words, MALDs are only released along with actual weapons, and are actually aimed at making the objects look larger (so they'll be targeted by enemy radar and draw fire away from the smaller cruise missiles or glide bombs). They're not used to camouflage actual aircraft. I don't know if this is at the heart of what the Chinese system would be as well, but if their aim is miniaturizing military aircraft in order to make them appear as civilian airliners or general aviation planes, it's a different game altogether. The Chinese system seems to be more similar to the British system that can make a tank appear as a car than the MALD, which was developed back in the 1990s and can only be utilized during an attack that is already underway. The British and Chinese systems seem to be equally problematic - one on the ground and one in the air. (That said, I'm sure the engineers could use the MALD as a basis for something more like the Chinese system, but the U.S. has prioritized radar and IR stealth than active camouflage when it comes to aircraft.)
I read a book once in which a country had developed active stealth systems for fighter craft. According to a relative who works in radar systems, this is a very real trchnology that countries are very much working on. According to him, the main stumbling block is that it requires a very powerful computer that is also small enough, light enough, and with a sufficiently low power draw to fit it into a fighter aircraft. The computer analyzes an incoming radar beam, absorbs it, and in a split second emits a second beam with the same properties. This makes it appear like there's nothing there to reflect the radar beam.
Really? Look how freaked out the US military is about UAPs. They designated sections of government to figure them out. They are basically drones that can disappear. Maybe they just start moving and camouflage themselves. Gives the illusion of it just moving and disappearing because of how fast it moves when it’s just camo.
Interestingly, I know a senior military officer who is colour blind. For reasons I can't explain, he was able to clearly discern traditionally camouflaged troops and military hardware such as tanks. As a result he was able to direct fire onto targets that the gunners couldn't even see.
Most likely it would be something where the particular colour blindness they suffer from means that the camouflage looks noticeably different compared to natural vegetation and landscape despite seeming normal to regular eyesight. Though I'd suspect there's a very strong element of 'I have spent my entire life training to be able to spot the subtle differences between what look like the same colour shade to me but everyone else says are two different colours' in play as well. Otherwise everyone would just defeat camouflage by making use of two cameras, one that displays 'real' colour vision and one that uses a 'distorted' colour vision to use that benefit.
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Active camouflage has already been in use by the NVA, former East Germany's military. The technology then was sold off to the Swiss military and developed further. The technology was also pretty simple and cheap. Though granted, it wasn't used for military vehicles but instead for decoys. Literally blow up tanks with a heat generator inside, that made it look like an engine is running inside a real tank. So from several 100m away to the naked eye, even with good scopes, it looked like a tank and on infrared cameras it did as well. And that was in the late 70's and 80's already. West German military, aka Bundeswehr, didn't deem that technology useful and abandoned all research the NVA had already done.
Haha! I thought I was the only one who noticed that! Also…It’s not just at 10:49. It’s sprinkled in throughout the entire video. Not just this one either…I’ve seen the same footage in a few of Simon’s videos. Whoever is editing these is getting quite lazy. That might even violate RUclips’s t.o.s. but I don’t know. 🤷♂️
So I live near a small airport in rural New England and see a number of small prop planes go overhead at all times of the day and night. One night I was outside around midnight to feed our wood stove and on the way back to the house, something caught my eye that I at first thought was a Cessna. However, it was displaying three white lights in a triangle shape and it was moving many times faster than a small plane. As it went overhead it seemed to be quite low but also completely silent and just as it passed overhead, it disappeared instantly. I wonder if it was using any of these types of cammo.
Having done some home research on camouflage and thermal imaging I can say the biggest problem against thermal vision camouflage is cooling since hot or cold you still emit heat and unless you emit the same temperature all around your body as the ambient temperature you haven't got a hope in hell to camouflage from it even using Mylar. Active camouflage is a great idea and I'd love to be like the Predator but to me passive camouflage is best since it relies on training instead of electronics. And it may not camouflage you completely from thermal vision but you can get enough to allow you to vanish for a few seconds. Enough to find an escape route or get close to attack the enemy in the case of a soldier. Glass, Mylar and Perspex camouflage your heat signature but you are visible. A bin bag (or liner) will make you invisible but you'll radiate your heat through the thin plastic.
not far away atall for vehicles & structures, but ppl might be harder! i mean, we got flexible, thin color screens already & placing these around whatever would definetly boost the "hideability". add to that the distance at witch planes, helicopters & ships are normally viewed from, even "coming close" to the surroundings might be well enough to archive "invisibility".
Active camo would have to have a 360 degree camera or a bunch of different cameras and would have to have dimensions to cloak well. It would have to send out radars to find out the environments and surroundings and be able to recognize colors and mirror the colors that the radars and cameras pick up. It’d fun to create
It's in the same category as time travel. The more you think about it, the more impossible it becomes. It's part of the reason why Die Another Day is the worst Bond film, ever 😋
@PepperK-n But… Mission Impossible actually did it correctly. It identified a single viewer, and it camouflaged for a single viewer. It even freaked out and broke when additional viewers appeared.
Technology could learn from nature (as in most cases) by looking at the Octopus. It's ability to change colours is something we could recreate. The radar cross-section would still be there of course but visual observation would be more difficult.
OLED would work if there were some well-placed mini (or micro) cameras around that actively, in real-time took video of your surroundings and was linked to the OLED to project it from all angles. Seems like refraction might be a problem due to bending the panels, so, the smaller the pixels and micro-video devices, the better.
we could use camouflage on jets using LED's and camera's to essentially change th LED's to show whats on the other side, only issue is the radar cross section the main way planes are seen is still there.
I theorized led l and cameras on opposite sides of a vehicle in 2008. If cameras take the image and produce a visible display around the opposite side, the only problem was the thermal. And dust trails. I only imagined this on large platforms, but, now with the tech today, it could work on soldiers uniforms.
We’ve got it. I remember seeing “we’ll have this in 5 years lmao” back in like 2004. People way smarter than us found some way to bend light waves around an object. Meaning if it was theoretically doable and being worked on 20+ years ago, it exists now and they just don’t want to tell you.
11:32 I REALLY hope that intentionally disguising any weapon or military asset as a civilian passenger airline is internationally recognized as illegal, if not a war crime.
Yes. If you’re trying to become invisible, it only works if you’re on the same line as the thing you’re mimicking. Either you’re directly in front of it, or it only works or small angles. With a rasterized system, there is no option for a wide angle camouflage, unless the thing you’re trying to camouflage against (like the sky) is itself wide angle. @11:30, radar systems are different. Since the radar is insufficiently high resolution to image an object, instead inferring details from a single “pixel”, you have more flexibility on mimicry systems.
In one capacity, yes. Chameleon style background blending is definitely one way, but there's also stealth tech that is designed to absorb or deflect wavelengths such as IR and radar to effectively blind the monitoring system in use. I doubt we find something like a stealth-all anytime soon but we are advancing in tech so fast these days it might come sooner than we think.
@ IR and radar stealth are two vastly different things. Radar is a (usually) active system, and as you state, you can absorb or deflect it. IR is a (usually) passive system, and it just detects the IR you naturally emit. You’re warm. You will emit IR. The best you can do is to manipulate what it is you’re emitting.
@wagnerrp yes, you're not wrong. But passive or not, there will come a day where there is an active IR cloaking device. Whether that's something that matches heat output with the ambient space around it or finds a way to eliminate the output entirely would become an active style system because it would have to take real world and real time data to make it functional.
Active camouflage might sound like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s actually closer to reality than we think! From Project Yahudi Lights in the 1940s to the modern-day Adaptive system, it’s fascinating to see how technology has evolved. The potential for this tech to change military strategy is huge, but there’s still a long way to go. Do you think true invisibility is just around the corner?
only problem with china's version is that all civilian aircraft are required to have ADSB transponders on while in flight, so the ability to figure out will be very easy for cross referencing and targeting.
Interesting video, but why did you keep cutting in footage from a “The Slow-Mo Guys” video showing a tattoo being done on ballistic gel in super slo-mo? It’s cool footage but it’s not yours…and wtf does it have to do with active camouflage??
that first one seems kinda wack because for the outside of the panels to become cold the inside would have to heat up and the additional heat from that plus the normal heat from the vehicle would just leak out through the cracks if you ran the camouflage for too long (i dont know what im talking about, im probably wrong)
You could have digged deeper on this issue in regards to the Boeing Bird of Prey, which is said to had been a testbed for active camouflage back then, but it´s pretty secretive and vage...
Any active solution would likely need a ton of power. Think of how much energy is needed for an average TV, then imagine trying to make that portable and work for long periods of time in a war zone.
< Sigh > Please stop mentioning Tachi's "invisibility cloak" as a kind of adaptive camo. It is a common, front-projected movie effect using reflex screens. What's next? Pepper's Ghost as viable military camo?
I remember reading a report in a British newspaper about British Tanks having this tech developed for them. Probably that BAE system one. Clever stuff.
That's the one! But after the Bucha massacre in Ukraine, I'd be a little worried about civilian deconfliction. If this were used too often in a war with an opponent like Russia which doesn't particularly care about hurting civilians (or, even worse, is actively trying to do so) it could cause some trouble and potentially give them an excuse to fire. There's a similar concern with the Chinese system which does the same thing in the air.
The ACAMSII video looks more like it's demonstrating how the suit is as agile as standard ghillie suits. This may be good enough if it actually provides better camouflage properties. And if it does, it's good they don't give away much about the details. In fact, if there's anything really working right now, the public would be the last to know 😂
Speaking of Stealth Invisibility the Chinese day through I think it's Asian Time's a type of either a costing or a reflective signal that makes there Submarines disappear based on this technique as it protests the Subs as standard ocean background noise.
Idk replace windows with those invisible making sheets and it could have pretty widespread uses. Especially if you combine it with other tech mentioned here.
This is Darpa tech. Just remember, Darpa is typically at least 1 to 2 decades ahead of what the public is fully aware of. And the fact that this idea started almost 80 years ago pretty much means this camouflage tech is well beyond what we think we know.
@ Pepper’s Ghost. It’s a 160yr old illusion. It’s the same technique we’ve used for aircraft HUDs since the 1940s. More technically, it’s a “reflex” or “reflective” display.
@@wagnerrp hmmm, Iv seen the floating apple in a box. It only worked if viewed from the perfect angle, Tupac was walking left to right on the stage, not at an angle as the mirror would need to be positioned. I’m gonna go watch the footage again, my head is spinning with new questions 😂 Thanks
@ They’re both projections onto a 2D plane, and so they’re both going to have a limited viewing angle. You must look through the plane to see the projection behind it, so if the projection would be off the edge of the pane of glass, you won’t see it. The difference is that Pepper’s Ghost is a 2D projection, and can only display a single object in the single location of the projector. A hologram is a 3D projection, and could reproduce everything anywhere behind that pane of glass simultaneously, with proper parallax and focus.
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Complete aeronautical camouflage, silent flight and a three sided 60 degree shape that has multi directional capabilities for maneuverabilty would create the designs for a really superior vehicle. I just hope BAE create that first.
The concept of propulsion based on variable vibrational waves as a lift mechanism, magnetic levitation. Non combustion engines that utilise fields that may even distort time in local bubles to be able to observe the past whilst remaining invisible from detection.
6 meter by 2 meter lenticular mounted on a small research vessel, many will have done similar before me. So I guess it has been here for a while, but no one noticed (;
08:00, hope they advanced the materials science and create a IR adaptive OLED system -- that is the Predator stealth. Only way to survive. If I had a C&C vehicle... I'd want to be as invisible as possible while launching a drone storm attack and commanding it.
From rail guns to adaptive armour this is always nice to see BAE SYSTEMS even the Mars Rovers brain was full of the same microchips by us Proud to be British
Looks like the US Army has gone ahead and chosen BAE's railgun for its future 155mm launcher. It's a shame the gun system they developed for the Zumwalt destroyers never saw deployment before being deemed too costly. The demand for naval artillery might not be what it once was, but sometimes it's good to simply oversee the tech advancements. I'm also glad to see the British following through with the Tempest development. It's a nice idea to co-develop fighters like the F-35, but the U.K., U.S., NATO and the western world as a whole benefit from a solidly independent British aerospace industry. The more friendly countries working on "stuff," the better. (If not for Airbus, I wonder if BAE would be developing civilian airliners to compete with Boeing on a 737 size platform.)
There is a video of a B21 raider on takeoff that is literally using predator level active camouflage... It may be edited but it sure as sh!t looks real and almost an unintentional leak.
If you are making your missiles look like passenger planes don't complain when your airliners in the theater start getting shot down, assuming your enemy can't tell the difference between mach 2 and .8
What about doppler shifting ir detectors? I mean I know it could be the wind that this technology detects, but it could use AI to determine that a a gust of wind is traveling differently
Hold on, you just reminded me I need to change the polarity of the transwarp displacement inducer, before I go to bed, lest I get woken up by some errant phase compensating tachyon disruptors.
Now days I'm not sure active camouflaging aircraft is that important. Erasing radar, infrared, thermo, and any other censor profile seems like it would be more important than visual camouflage.
Maybe the acamsii camouflage didn't look very impressive.... Because those soldiers wearing the ghilly suits were the ones NOT wearing the new camouflage. You didn't even see the other soldiers did you? See? That's how good it is.
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@@lucazappa89 The Mars Rover was supposed to last about 7 months but after 3 years it was still going strong
It’s not even Simon presenting this. It’s an old Estonian woman with active camouflage.
Everyone needs a day off.
Her British English is fantastic!
I hate that I had to take the thumbs up from 69 to 70.... shame on me
@ It’s always been at 69. Active camouflage makes it look like other numbers.
@ All part of the active camouflage
thank you for slowing down the speed of speaking, thank you for not using background music, and thank you for toning down additional sound effects.
@@torquemada6781 You know you can change the playback speed of RUclips videos, right?
His team’s liberal use of AI generated media to portray a historical context is what turned me off the Places channel. It’s good that this is free of AI so far.
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@@jonnyphenomenonis that the Michael in the ‘office’ parkour or Schmidt in ‘new girl’ parkour?
@@four_20hitman___97I think it was from the office, during the part of this video where the gillee suit guy was running around it kept playing it over and over.
Top Gear made active camo 15 years ago. They pretty much proved the only reason no one uses active camo is because most vehicles don't get close enough for visual confirmation before firing weapons.
The "disguise as a civilian vehicle" part is... problematic.
Finally someone recognizes this, I was disappointed that Simon did not note this in the video. Almost seems like a Project Pluto type issue in regards to safety on both sides.
It’ll make it an even more likely target for the Russians.
specially when recently a comercial plane was probably shot down by air defense systems
Well...yea and no. As actual civilian vehicles are used in conflict already anyway...
Also there are command posts and ammunition stashed in schools and hospitals too...
Don't trust on the fairness of someone who wants to kill you.
no one cares about civilian casualties anymore anyways
"Show yourselves, assassins! The scent of your cloak is faint, but it still fouls the air."
-- Atriox smelling active camouflage.
This guy has gone directly to Predator 2. It would appear. Going straight for detecting your scent.
Nothing hinting at a sociopath whatsoever 😂
It could do wonders for personal hygiene, though. NATO grade deodorant? 🤔
The MALD's radar deception is far beyond simple tuned radar reflectivity.
It's essentially a disposeable EW aircraft. It not only deceives it's own signature, but creates phantom images as well. It creates radar echoes to create the illusion of many aircraft. A single MALD may present a radar signature showing the enemy IAD what looks like several inbound cruise missiles or strike aircraft. It may change the apparent altitude, speed and direction of these 'phantom' contacts to give the appearance of maneuvering aircraft. It can give the appearance of contacts much closer to the target than the real strike package actually is. This is immeasurably valuable, priceless, in the opening days of an air campaign. This causes an enemy to light up every radar, giving away their position. They fire SAMs at ghosts, wasting expensive missiles. They may exhaust their loaded, ready batteries which then begins the lengthy reload process and diminishing their stockpile.
As the Israelis have used this tactic extensively in Syria, videos of Pantsir being killed while reloading abound. Deception is two thirds of battlefield strategy and MALD is a beast in this discussion of active camoflage as they shield, distract, and deceive the enemy in advance of the truly terrifying weapons arriving shortly after.
Heh mald
@icantthinkofaname4265 MALD is a big reason Russia's air defense has been consistently embarrassed. Whether in Syria or Ukraine, MALD and it's Israeli duplicate have made Russian air defense a meme. "What air defense doing?"
Chasing ghosts.
@icantthinkofaname4265 Used in coordination with HARM, the deception isn't only a costly distraction, it also becomes suicide for Russian radar operators.
Right, but it's a mono spectrum tool. It doesn't simulate the thermal, visual or even auditory signatures. And that's the difficulty in adaptive camouflage. It needs to mask visual, thermal and potentially mm wave radars found in the active countermeasures made countries like Israel.
The reason the mald is successful vs on ground systems in the mono spectrum (radar) is aircraft fly far to fast and are at ranges beyond identification via other spectrums. Which requires reactions before other verification can be made
@freedomwagonfilms7233 Nothing will ever be truly invisible. The best you can hope to do is counter whatever you determine to be your greatest threat.
In the case of air defense penetration, that is radar.
Detection by other means does not mean having the ability to successfully intercept. IR signature may give you the ability to see a cruise missile, but only in line of sight. Radar is still needed for most ranges. Radar operators have a very dangerous job unless deep in a bunker. Even then, that bunker is likely the primary target of the strike. Any confusion or loss of situational awareness stokes the human fear of imminent death. Since SEAD/DEAD is typically the opening salvos, it's a very rational fear.
MALD is designed to confuse.
You did miss one which is actually a consumer piece of tech that could be used in military applications. BMW have been playing with e-ink paint which could easily be used for adaptive camo. Search e-ink car and you see several videos from the last year. Just FYI :)
Also, added bonus of not using energy once set, and, also, unlike OLED, would not emit heat.
I followed your suggestion and absolutely think this is the most promising tech. It's like the suit from MGS4. Framerate is low, but the potential for over 100+ traditional camo patterns in 1 vehicle, changable at a moment's notice, is hard to overlook.
I was wondering how that was missed as well. Top Gear did a video on it and then BMW has a much longer one on their own channel that goes more in depth.
It was still in the 2000s, perhaps in the early 2000s, when a buddy made a Halloween costume that looked like he had a gaping wound all the way through him. This was done with the use of a flexible display and a video camera hidden on his back. From many angles, it appeared that you could see right through him. I've since wondered how well this would work, especially in modern times, for camouflage. In theory, it'd be perfect. I suspect it'd be even better today.
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@@galeng73 That was covered briefly in the video. You hang up a sheet and you project onto it. It only works from a single viewing angle, so you either need to be right in front of your background, or you have to know exactly where your observer is.
Nailed it.
The Chinese 1 not only sounds like a potential war crime , but im pretty sure if the missile is close to the ground absolutely no one will believe it to be a passenger plane
It also says that the US has been doing it for a while
@@Topo842 The US's decoy missiles don't pretend to be civilian aircraft. They pretend to be US military aircraft so that air defense resources are wasted on them or you can trick enemy air defenses to think there is a large amount of aircraft coming from different areas.
It would be considered, but China isn't big on following international accords that it signs.
@@Topo842 That was referring to the MALD, which is a decoy system. In other words, MALDs are only released along with actual weapons, and are actually aimed at making the objects look larger (so they'll be targeted by enemy radar and draw fire away from the smaller cruise missiles or glide bombs). They're not used to camouflage actual aircraft. I don't know if this is at the heart of what the Chinese system would be as well, but if their aim is miniaturizing military aircraft in order to make them appear as civilian airliners or general aviation planes, it's a different game altogether. The Chinese system seems to be more similar to the British system that can make a tank appear as a car than the MALD, which was developed back in the 1990s and can only be utilized during an attack that is already underway. The British and Chinese systems seem to be equally problematic - one on the ground and one in the air.
(That said, I'm sure the engineers could use the MALD as a basis for something more like the Chinese system, but the U.S. has prioritized radar and IR stealth than active camouflage when it comes to aircraft.)
Only useful in a sneak attack and if China wants to do that to the USA there is historical evidence that they take that personally.
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I read a book once in which a country had developed active stealth systems for fighter craft. According to a relative who works in radar systems, this is a very real trchnology that countries are very much working on. According to him, the main stumbling block is that it requires a very powerful computer that is also small enough, light enough, and with a sufficiently low power draw to fit it into a fighter aircraft.
The computer analyzes an incoming radar beam, absorbs it, and in a split second emits a second beam with the same properties. This makes it appear like there's nothing there to reflect the radar beam.
Camouflage is yesterday.
Swarming robots and drones don't need it.
They still can't hit what they can't see.
Really? Look how freaked out the US military is about UAPs. They designated sections of government to figure them out. They are basically drones that can disappear. Maybe they just start moving and camouflage themselves. Gives the illusion of it just moving and disappearing because of how fast it moves when it’s just camo.
@@four_20hitman___97 Really?
LOL ... No, those are flown by government itself, and you are told some BS story about it, for some undisclosed reason.
Interestingly, I know a senior military officer who is colour blind. For reasons I can't explain, he was able to clearly discern traditionally camouflaged troops and military hardware such as tanks. As a result he was able to direct fire onto targets that the gunners couldn't even see.
Most likely it would be something where the particular colour blindness they suffer from means that the camouflage looks noticeably different compared to natural vegetation and landscape despite seeming normal to regular eyesight. Though I'd suspect there's a very strong element of 'I have spent my entire life training to be able to spot the subtle differences between what look like the same colour shade to me but everyone else says are two different colours' in play as well.
Otherwise everyone would just defeat camouflage by making use of two cameras, one that displays 'real' colour vision and one that uses a 'distorted' colour vision to use that benefit.
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Active camouflage has already been in use by the NVA, former East Germany's military. The technology then was sold off to the Swiss military and developed further.
The technology was also pretty simple and cheap. Though granted, it wasn't used for military vehicles but instead for decoys. Literally blow up tanks with a heat generator inside, that made it look like an engine is running inside a real tank. So from several 100m away to the naked eye, even with good scopes, it looked like a tank and on infrared cameras it did as well. And that was in the late 70's and 80's already. West German military, aka Bundeswehr, didn't deem that technology useful and abandoned all research the NVA had already done.
10:49 taken from #slowmoguys tattoo episode (probably)
Haha! I thought I was the only one who noticed that! Also…It’s not just at 10:49. It’s sprinkled in throughout the entire video. Not just this one either…I’ve seen the same footage in a few of Simon’s videos. Whoever is editing these is getting quite lazy. That might even violate RUclips’s t.o.s. but I don’t know. 🤷♂️
Is there some relevance to this footage? So random
Yep - the Slo-Mo Guys tattoo episode. It showed up again very near the end.
So I live near a small airport in rural New England and see a number of small prop planes go overhead at all times of the day and night. One night I was outside around midnight to feed our wood stove and on the way back to the house, something caught my eye that I at first thought was a Cessna. However, it was displaying three white lights in a triangle shape and it was moving many times faster than a small plane. As it went overhead it seemed to be quite low but also completely silent and just as it passed overhead, it disappeared instantly. I wonder if it was using any of these types of cammo.
It looks to me like we're at 1916 levels of tank technology in relation to active camouflage.
Love your videos! ❤ Quantum stealth is neat though for defeating IR a basic umbrella can go a long way for infantry
Having done some home research on camouflage and thermal imaging I can say the biggest problem against thermal vision camouflage is cooling since hot or cold you still emit heat and unless you emit the same temperature all around your body as the ambient temperature you haven't got a hope in hell to camouflage from it even using Mylar. Active camouflage is a great idea and I'd love to be like the Predator but to me passive camouflage is best since it relies on training instead of electronics. And it may not camouflage you completely from thermal vision but you can get enough to allow you to vanish for a few seconds. Enough to find an escape route or get close to attack the enemy in the case of a soldier.
Glass, Mylar and Perspex camouflage your heat signature but you are visible.
A bin bag (or liner) will make you invisible but you'll radiate your heat through the thin plastic.
Remember the active camoflauge speedboat from 'Street Fighter'?
Simon and Co are just dropping bangers this week. One after another. Thanks!
2:15 - Mid roll ads
3:55 - Chapter 1 - Hiding in plain sight
9:30 - Chapter 2 - The science fiction tech of the future
10:00 - Chapter 3 - Quantum stelath
11:10 - Chapter 4 - Golden veil
12:25 - Chapter 5 - Invisibility cloak
13:30 - Chapter 6 - Phased array optics
15:00 - Chapter 7 - Acamsii
16:20 - Chapter 8 - OLED
not far away atall for vehicles & structures, but ppl might be harder!
i mean, we got flexible, thin color screens already & placing these around whatever would definetly boost the "hideability". add to that the distance at witch planes, helicopters & ships are normally viewed from, even "coming close" to the surroundings might be well enough to archive "invisibility".
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Active camo would have to have a 360 degree camera or a bunch of different cameras and would have to have dimensions to cloak well. It would have to send out radars to find out the environments and surroundings and be able to recognize colors and mirror the colors that the radars and cameras pick up. It’d fun to create
It's in the same category as time travel. The more you think about it, the more impossible it becomes.
It's part of the reason why Die Another Day is the worst Bond film, ever 😋
@PepperK-n But… Mission Impossible actually did it correctly. It identified a single viewer, and it camouflaged for a single viewer. It even freaked out and broke when additional viewers appeared.
12:08 a passenger plane moving Mach 2 or 3 might give it away don’t you think lol 😂
Man of culture with the “parkour” from the office in the background lmao
Damn, the bots are out in force!
Silence..... bot. 💀💀💀
Technology could learn from nature (as in most cases) by looking at the Octopus. It's ability to change colours is something we could recreate. The radar cross-section would still be there of course but visual observation would be more difficult.
OLED would work if there were some well-placed mini (or micro) cameras around that actively, in real-time took video of your surroundings and was linked to the OLED to project it from all angles. Seems like refraction might be a problem due to bending the panels, so, the smaller the pixels and micro-video devices, the better.
6:07 ur showing kills without pixelation?
other channels get in trouble for that ^^
I had the exact same thought…it might just be footage from Call of Duty though. Hopefully anyway.
@@NunnyaBidnisswell I don’t remember seeing characters in cod ducking at the sound of the incoming bomb half a second before being turning into mist
we could use camouflage on jets using LED's and camera's to essentially change th LED's to show whats on the other side, only issue is the radar cross section the main way planes are seen is still there.
I theorized led l and cameras on opposite sides of a vehicle in 2008. If cameras take the image and produce a visible display around the opposite side, the only problem was the thermal. And dust trails. I only imagined this on large platforms, but, now with the tech today, it could work on soldiers uniforms.
We’ve got it.
I remember seeing “we’ll have this in 5 years lmao” back in like 2004. People way smarter than us found some way to bend light waves around an object.
Meaning if it was theoretically doable and being worked on 20+ years ago, it exists now and they just don’t want to tell you.
What’s with the random tattoo clips???
Doctor who has some good active camouflage in the episode Listen.
11:32 I REALLY hope that intentionally disguising any weapon or military asset as a civilian passenger airline is internationally recognized as illegal, if not a war crime.
"quantum stealth" almost looks like half-life 2 civil protection shield for machine gun nest
Active Camouflage is basically chameleon type background blending right?
Yes. If you’re trying to become invisible, it only works if you’re on the same line as the thing you’re mimicking. Either you’re directly in front of it, or it only works or small angles. With a rasterized system, there is no option for a wide angle camouflage, unless the thing you’re trying to camouflage against (like the sky) is itself wide angle.
@11:30, radar systems are different. Since the radar is insufficiently high resolution to image an object, instead inferring details from a single “pixel”, you have more flexibility on mimicry systems.
In one capacity, yes. Chameleon style background blending is definitely one way, but there's also stealth tech that is designed to absorb or deflect wavelengths such as IR and radar to effectively blind the monitoring system in use. I doubt we find something like a stealth-all anytime soon but we are advancing in tech so fast these days it might come sooner than we think.
@ IR and radar stealth are two vastly different things. Radar is a (usually) active system, and as you state, you can absorb or deflect it. IR is a (usually) passive system, and it just detects the IR you naturally emit. You’re warm. You will emit IR. The best you can do is to manipulate what it is you’re emitting.
@wagnerrp yes, you're not wrong. But passive or not, there will come a day where there is an active IR cloaking device. Whether that's something that matches heat output with the ambient space around it or finds a way to eliminate the output entirely would become an active style system because it would have to take real world and real time data to make it functional.
@ That day came a decade ago, and it was mentioned in the video. And it operates on a completely different principle to RF stealth.
Active camouflage might sound like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s actually closer to reality than we think! From Project Yahudi Lights in the 1940s to the modern-day Adaptive system, it’s fascinating to see how technology has evolved. The potential for this tech to change military strategy is huge, but there’s still a long way to go. Do you think true invisibility is just around the corner?
only problem with china's version is that all civilian aircraft are required to have ADSB transponders on while in flight, so the ability to figure out will be very easy for cross referencing and targeting.
6:07-6:11 it sounds like someone used the Parkour sound byte from the office in the ad 🤣
Interesting video, but why did you keep cutting in footage from a “The Slow-Mo Guys” video showing a tattoo being done on ballistic gel in super slo-mo? It’s cool footage but it’s not yours…and wtf does it have to do with active camouflage??
that first one seems kinda wack because for the outside of the panels to become cold the inside would have to heat up and the additional heat from that plus the normal heat from the vehicle would just leak out through the cracks if you ran the camouflage for too long (i dont know what im talking about, im probably wrong)
Maybe thermal pads under a stealth skin - esp for aircraft if fuel is chilled?
I want Ghost in the Shell active camo.
You could have digged deeper on this issue in regards to the Boeing Bird of Prey, which is said to had been a testbed for active camouflage back then, but it´s pretty secretive and vage...
Monty Python did a segment on similar called something like "Don't get seen". While some "looked" ok, they didn't save anyone.
Any active solution would likely need a ton of power. Think of how much energy is needed for an average TV, then imagine trying to make that portable and work for long periods of time in a war zone.
< Sigh > Please stop mentioning Tachi's "invisibility cloak" as a kind of adaptive camo. It is a common, front-projected movie effect using reflex screens. What's next? Pepper's Ghost as viable military camo?
I remember reading a report in a British newspaper about British Tanks having this tech developed for them. Probably that BAE system one. Clever stuff.
That's the one! But after the Bucha massacre in Ukraine, I'd be a little worried about civilian deconfliction. If this were used too often in a war with an opponent like Russia which doesn't particularly care about hurting civilians (or, even worse, is actively trying to do so) it could cause some trouble and potentially give them an excuse to fire. There's a similar concern with the Chinese system which does the same thing in the air.
The ACAMSII video looks more like it's demonstrating how the suit is as agile as standard ghillie suits.
This may be good enough if it actually provides better camouflage properties.
And if it does, it's good they don't give away much about the details.
In fact, if there's anything really working right now, the public would be the last to know 😂
Why was there a cut of the Slo mo Guys filming tattooing of a ballistics gel block spliced in to the quantum stealth segment?
Speaking of Stealth Invisibility the Chinese day through I think it's Asian Time's a type of either a costing or a reflective signal that makes there Submarines disappear based on this technique as it protests the Subs as standard ocean background noise.
An OLED panel with a peltier device attached to it for infrared signals would be amazing.
The guy behind the panel at the end of the vid looks so fed up 🤣
what if you did a combination of quantum stealth and the adaptive ir camo?
Simon who? This Estonian grandma with active camouflage is giving us next-level intrigue and style!
Considering that the moment there's a radar or heat signature lock the fight is over, it's pointless.
Thank you
By the looks of the thumbnail, active camouflage is about Doom 1 possibly Doom 2 away. Based on ID Software math, it's 1993. 31 Years away. 😊
7:21 This is by far the most promising UNCLASSIFIED active camoflage today**
I was interested in the comment section more than the actual video
Fastest click in the west
I bet that goes down well with your partner.
Aye pardner
Slowest click in the Midwest here.
Sturdiest click in the west
Idk replace windows with those invisible making sheets and it could have pretty widespread uses. Especially if you combine it with other tech mentioned here.
This is Darpa tech. Just remember, Darpa is typically at least 1 to 2 decades ahead of what the public is fully aware of. And the fact that this idea started almost 80 years ago pretty much means this camouflage tech is well beyond what we think we know.
Darpa is scary bro.
Why are you using Slow-mo guys footage uncredited at 10:50 ??
You definitely don't want tanks disguising themselves as civilian vehicles.
The F-22’s camouflage makes it show up as a bumblebee on radar
If they can make Tupac sing on stage with holograms I’m sure they could already make a helicopter into a cloud.
@@kyledemontigny6153 Tupac was not a hologram, despite them calling it as such.
@ what should it be called?
@ Pepper’s Ghost. It’s a 160yr old illusion. It’s the same technique we’ve used for aircraft HUDs since the 1940s. More technically, it’s a “reflex” or “reflective” display.
@@wagnerrp hmmm, Iv seen the floating apple in a box. It only worked if viewed from the perfect angle, Tupac was walking left to right on the stage, not at an angle as the mirror would need to be positioned. I’m gonna go watch the footage again, my head is spinning with new questions 😂
Thanks
@ They’re both projections onto a 2D plane, and so they’re both going to have a limited viewing angle. You must look through the plane to see the projection behind it, so if the projection would be off the edge of the pane of glass, you won’t see it.
The difference is that Pepper’s Ghost is a 2D projection, and can only display a single object in the single location of the projector. A hologram is a 3D projection, and could reproduce everything anywhere behind that pane of glass simultaneously, with proper parallax and focus.
the random slow-mo guys as b-roll cracking me up
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Wasn’t this outlawed by the treaty of Algeron?
It will never be a proper "active camouflage" system if it doesn't have a cool, gravely AI voice that says:
*CLOAK ENGAGED*
Complete aeronautical camouflage, silent flight and a three sided 60 degree shape that has multi directional capabilities for maneuverabilty would create the designs for a really superior vehicle.
I just hope BAE create that first.
The concept of propulsion based on variable vibrational waves as a lift mechanism, magnetic levitation. Non combustion engines that utilise fields that may even distort time in local bubles to be able to observe the past whilst remaining invisible from detection.
6 meter by 2 meter lenticular mounted on a small research vessel, many will have done similar before me. So I guess it has been here for a while, but no one noticed (;
Great title, I couldn't resist opening straight away lol
08:00, hope they advanced the materials science and create a IR adaptive OLED system -- that is the Predator stealth. Only way to survive. If I had a C&C vehicle... I'd want to be as invisible as possible while launching a drone storm attack and commanding it.
From rail guns to adaptive armour this is always nice to see BAE SYSTEMS even the Mars Rovers brain was full of the same microchips by us
Proud to be British
Looks like the US Army has gone ahead and chosen BAE's railgun for its future 155mm launcher. It's a shame the gun system they developed for the Zumwalt destroyers never saw deployment before being deemed too costly. The demand for naval artillery might not be what it once was, but sometimes it's good to simply oversee the tech advancements. I'm also glad to see the British following through with the Tempest development. It's a nice idea to co-develop fighters like the F-35, but the U.K., U.S., NATO and the western world as a whole benefit from a solidly independent British aerospace industry. The more friendly countries working on "stuff," the better. (If not for Airbus, I wonder if BAE would be developing civilian airliners to compete with Boeing on a 737 size platform.)
Your videos are always very accurate and are a good source of information
Thank you Simon W
How would the thermal panels hide the heat from a turbine engine?
@@brs690 You cool the bottom, and vent heat out the top. You only need to camouflage from the direction people are looking.
Glass… the thermal cameras arch nemisis
QUANTUM STEALTH
actually just a plastic lense
What's with the multiple, entirely unrelated, Slow-mo guys clips?
Holy end credit music volume, Editorman!
Ive always thought of a camera situation used to see through the plane with the skin Of the aircraft displaying what the camera is viewing
The fact that you haven't seen any camouflaged tank yet, proves that it works! 😂
So… octocamo, that was 17 years ago, and we have Sam Fishers 3 eye fusion nvg’s, it has been a spectacular year for the spy kid generation
Russia has active camo on the SU-57!
Has the signature of a C-47.
There is a video of a B21 raider on takeoff that is literally using predator level active camouflage... It may be edited but it sure as sh!t looks real and almost an unintentional leak.
If you are making your missiles look like passenger planes don't complain when your airliners in the theater start getting shot down, assuming your enemy can't tell the difference between mach 2 and .8
What about doppler shifting ir detectors? I mean I know it could be the wind that this technology detects, but it could use AI to determine that a a gust of wind is traveling differently
Hold on, you just reminded me I need to change the polarity of the transwarp displacement inducer, before I go to bed, lest I get woken up by some errant phase compensating tachyon disruptors.
Visual air to air combat is obsolete. Engagements are going to be at the range of one dot firing at another.
Now days I'm not sure active camouflaging aircraft is that important.
Erasing radar, infrared, thermo, and any other censor profile seems like it would be more important than visual camouflage.
Maybe the acamsii camouflage didn't look very impressive.... Because those soldiers wearing the ghilly suits were the ones NOT wearing the new camouflage. You didn't even see the other soldiers did you? See? That's how good it is.
The fact that OLED is the most promising but you don’t hear anything is a good sign.
One day, i think we will have retro panels camouflage or full cloaking. In a few years.
Oi? whys der a mini-van in dat field over der? 7:05
13:00 pretty sure this was in the mission impossible where they're in the Kremlin.
Sir! We have incoming!
What is it corporal?
Sir, It's a cloud flying at 150 knots 😅😵