How to Block Thermal Imaging With Your Ghillie Suit

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Twana

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One of the most effective tools for getting past camouflage is thermal imaging (TI). A warm body can be detected by the heat it gives off with thermal imaging equipment and provides a formidable challenge to someone wishing to avoid detection. Visually, the ghillie suit is one of the finest concealment tools, but a warm body inside one stands out clearly in an infrared scope. There is no absolutely certain way to defeat infrared, but there are some techniques that make detection more difficult.

Instructions

  1. Disguising Your Heat Signature

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      Conceal yourself behind shards of glass. Glass is opaque to thermal imaging, but carrying around a pane of glass in the jungle is not terribly practical. In junk yards or urban settings, a broken window or shards of glass can break up the shape of a human body and make a person in a ghillie suit harder to detect.

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      Throw a blanket over yourself. Afghan guerrillas carry thick woolen blankets to help defeat thermal imaging. A thermal blanket works the same way. By covering themselves with a layer of insulation, the heat is blocked so that it doesn't radiate. This only serves as a temporary concealment as the heat builds beneath the blanket, but may work long enough to conceal during a quick TI scan. Partially covering the ghillie suit may also obscure the outline of the body enough to deceive TI equipment.

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      Hide next to warm stones that still hold heat from the day. The extra warm spots will confuse the thermal imagers. Vent pipes near buildings, thick walls or any source of heat can help obscure your thermal outline. Hiding in hollows or caves or piling irregular mounds of earth over you may make you look like a brush pile that's warm inside. Most brush piles emit a little heat that confuses an infrared image to the observer. The trick with terrain blocking is to make yourself look less like a human.

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      Attach materials of varying reflectivity and ability to absorb heat to the ghillie suit to reduce the clarity of the body outline is to . Use odd shapes with varying thicknesses attached beneath the netting to vary the intensity of the heat given off by the body. This will not totally disguise your shape, but with other methods, can make concealment easier.

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      Wear double layers of material like insulated underwear with irregular venting between the net and clothing can help temporarily improve the breakup of the TI image. A wetsuit worn underneath the ghillie suit can help keep heat in. All of these last only until the ghillie suit wearer heat up inside the insulating layers and body heat begins ot leak out. The heat can also make it difficult for the wearer to operate effectively by overheating him and sapping strength.

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      Apply substances like wet mud to the face and exposed areas that might radiate heat. The cool mud streaked irregularly over hands and face can artificially cool the most open sources of thermal image. In a pinch, pour cold water over yourself. It can cool your skin and temporarily defeat a quick thermal scan. Rolling in the mud, suit and all can temporarily disguise your heat signature as well.

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  • You might want to thinl of moderately reflective materials that are made that way from starch, and water shedding applications.  The more it can relect the IR the less therma image is there.  Find a material that blocks red.

    By the way, red lenses blocks green laser.

     

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  • Thanks for the information.

  • Can staying in a creek help?

  • GOOD TO KNOW THANK YOU ( THIS WON'T HELP ON VALENTINES DAY ) .

  • I HEAR THOSE SILVER SURVIVAL/RESCUE POCKET BLANKETS WORK WELL?? ANY TRUTH TO THAT...ANYONE?

    • Anything that keeps cold out helps keep heat in. A foil blanket, spread out can disguise or confuse the TI signature. If you look like a rock or something other than a human body, you're less likely to be a sniper's target or FLIR (forward looking infrared radar) target acquisition equipment!


  • The initial Woodland BDU camouflage was supposed to cut down on heat signature, and was not supposed to be starched or ironed to help preserve the treatment.   That quickly went by the boards.

    Not sure about the efficacy of any of the suggestions that came before.  I would like to see the results of actual FLIR testing done, although most seem to make sense.

    I can tell you though, blocking any heat signature might come at the cost of overheating. Anyone who has worn MOPP gear (military anti-chemical warfare suits) can tell you about the extreme overheating that comes with wearing such gear.


    A German outfit has developed GHOST gear, as demonstrated at this link.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx0ggSL8CkU

    Ghost - anti-heat signature clothing

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx0ggSL8CkU
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  • This info ROCKS! Thanks Twana!

     

    • I too thank you.  This is invaluable info.

  • I think it was VDA which mentioned poly pro tarps will stop all infrared . Will need to spray it for camo . I'll see if I can find the source and this is very cheap material and packs easily . An 8x10 should be less than 10 bucks .

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