Israeli camouflage tech makes soldiers ‘invisible’

That's... underwhelming. From the title I was expecting some sort of adaptive camouflage from ghost recon future soldier[1] or something.

[1] https://youtu.be/ufqtU8ByDYs?t=130

..unless one does not plan to go at war with countries where it registered patents

I believe that portions of the enigma machine technology were patented and later reviewed for exploitation by the British.

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/enigma/patents/

Pure speculation here... the only ground combat scenario Israel really has to worry about is with Hezbollah. So the calculation must be that either Iran doesn't have the materials expertise to manufacture this, or else they can and Israel has either compromised the supply chain, has technology to see through it on some other part of the EM spectrum, or both. For all we know it lights up like a Christmas tree if you hit it with millimeter wave from a drone. Either way, the Iranians probably will assume this and therefore not pursue the technology. Maybe they learned it was already leaked to Iranian intelligence, so by making it public now they raise too many doubts for the enemy to use it.

this isn't particularly crazy technology that no one will be able to manufacture. Once you field it everyone else will copy it. From a benefit perspective you benefit from fielding it, but also controlling the patent in other countries where you can license/sell it to orgs you approve.

Enemy countries will always violate your patents and make their own, so might as well extract maximum benefit while you can.

Not for the company making it, Polaris Solutions. All the many countries have to buy it to keep up with each other.

Impressive how "low-tech" some products look. It is sad armed conflicts still involves human lives.

have you seen invisible man?

I kind of played with this idea when the military was deployed in Boston. Now that their uniform and paint signatures are designed to camouflage them from infrared signatures in the forests they stick out like a sore thumb in the city.

https://www.daviddegner.com/photography/military-and-police-...

Does infrared work even if the outside temperatures are 35c-40c? Summer in the middle east is around those temperatures, which mostly overlap human core temp

Sure, it is made of "advanced polymers". In other words it is one of those thermal blankets painted to look like a rock.

More like the book that LotR was based on (e.g. 2 Kings 6:17, Ephesians 6:12).