Hyperspectral camouflage is needed to hide from new electronic sensors
economist.com
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The time is now that we need laws to protect privacy and prevent governments and private companies from mass surveillance using AI etc. without any safeguards. It should be forbidden to use face recognition in public.
- [US] https://www.banfacialrecognition.com/
- [EU] https://reclaimyourface.eu/
Why ? Not that I'm for more government surveillance, I'm just curious what's the argument about face recognition ? Is there something about it worse or is it a generic "let's stop any advance in gov surveillance" ?
Seriously, we're using _sachets of sugar_ to convey weight?
Later in the article:
> Two decades ago, he adds, a less sensitive thermal sensor weighing a kilogram cost ten times as much
And:
> A poncho called Noa lite, developed by Fibrotex, an Israeli firm that supplies America’s army, weighs less than 700g
Why do journalists do this?
Anything but metric.
I get the reason - it conveys the notion on an emotional level.
But how many sparrows are that?
Ultimately it's not a huge deal, it is still a little odd though!
I know !
It must be a special part of the curriculum at Journalist School.
I imagine the conversation goes something like this....
"No Mr Young Journalist, you cannot use the metric system, and no Mr Young Journalist, you cannot use the imperial system. You must ALWAYS refer to items in relative proportion to some random object of your choice be that swimming pools, football pitches, jumbo jets or bags of sugar ... whatever takes your fancy when you get out of bed that morning, but it must NEVER be metric or imperial measurements".
“Snow Crash” (1992) by Neal Stephenson
It's also why stealth aircraft don't need to be perfect- they are more likely to see their enemy first.
Active protection systems have radars that will light you up like a Xmas tree, tanks also have a lot of EW gear on them that even before hardkill APS became common used a ton of power and increases their signature.
Silent/LowSig mode is just another tool in their toolkit. If they know that the threat landscape allows them to go into low signature mode safely and that it would improve their combat effectiveness they now will be able to do so.
This is also a feature of the new Abrams.
> “Giorgio Licciardi, an expert on collecting hyperspectral data from orbit at the Italian Space Agency, in Rome, says the technology even detects buried anti-tank mines. (Soil on top of them is typically drier.)”
Isn’t targeting APCs considered a faux pas in war, a little less bad than hitting an ambulance, but still not nice?
It is not a faux pas - they are legal targets.
Not sure what you mean by "not nice". All of war is "not nice". Unless you're Pyro from TF2.
They have meaningful armor because they're actually IFVs (Infantry Fighting Vehicles), not plain APCs, they're designed so the soldiers can fight from inside them, which is hard to do from inside Swiss cheese.
> Isn’t targeting APCs considered a faux pas in war, a little less bad than hitting an ambulance, but still not nice?
No, there's no military on Earth that's going to let the enemy peacefully transport their soldiers around in APCs if they can help it.