(12-28-2022, 11:56 PM)Bally002 Wrote: Hmm. Your thoughts please on the possibility that a defence is built into a helmet such as a tone or alert that you've been targeted by such round or that fact it has been fired not unlike that of a pilots helmet or heads up display in the case of a cockpit. A countermeasure may be a deflection or false target that detects targeting is initiated prior to or once the round is discharged - or - as you suggested using radio or optical to confuse an approaching round.
I am sure the manufacturers of this tech have also developed countermeasures.
Kind regards,
Bally
I think that would depend on the guidance system used to guide the round. A helmet sensor would probably have to pick up on the guidance signal to know whether it had been targeted, but on the plus side both radio and laser guidance (even IR laser) would arrive before either the report of the rifle or the round itself, since they both travel at the speed of light.
Reflectors may serve to deflect the signal of either radio or laser and send the round off on a wild goose chase, chasing after the reflected guidance signal.
Reflective mylar blankets, "space blankets" or "survival blankets", can be used to defeat thermal and passive IR detectors, but show up bright in radio/ radar detectors. That's probably why DHS is handing them out like candy to the invaders on our southern border, so they can hide better from ICE thermal detection measures. That's either intentional, or some jackass at a desk somewhere didn't really think it through.
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