Correct. They go back to WW2 with blow up tanks etc. In the 1980's we were experimenting and using blow up reconnaissance vehicles with thermal sheeting in places to present as an actual running vehicle. The heat sources were generated using a small generator, to give the correct thermal imagery to an enemy's thermal imagery system.
They were very realistic, we were examining them at relatively close distance with binoculars and thermal imagers to see where they could be improved.
There is something strange with this aircraft as it rolls down the taxiway. Not sure people realise how huge those engine intakes are, and how much exhaust gases are coming out the back of the engines, even at taxi power settings?
Universal condemnation, interesting. Blow up decoys have been around a long long time.
Correct. They go back to WW2 with blow up tanks etc. In the 1980's we were experimenting and using blow up reconnaissance vehicles with thermal sheeting in places to present as an actual running vehicle. The heat sources were generated using a small generator, to give the correct thermal imagery to an enemy's thermal imagery system.
They were very realistic, we were examining them at relatively close distance with binoculars and thermal imagers to see where they could be improved.
There is something strange with this aircraft as it rolls down the taxiway. Not sure people realise how huge those engine intakes are, and how much exhaust gases are coming out the back of the engines, even at taxi power settings?