obscurantism

FLIR Systems, which provides the aircraft's Lepton optronics, has been notably reserved on sharing information on the acquisition and how it will place the micro UAV into new markets, although Kevin Tucker, the firm's vice president and general manager, issued a blanket overview of the acquisition online in November 2016: "All generations of the Black Hornet offer our Lepton thermal product to integrate thermal imaging with electro-optical sensors, to provide soldiers with the ability to see in complete darkness or through smoke or obscurants," Mr.

--Train to engage targets that are obscured by friendly obscurants.

led element advances using visual and digital obscurants to cover their movement.

The camera is capable of capturing heat sources from up to 100 feet away even through obscurants such as smoke.

For example, properly using the sensor's spatial filter can allow the operator to see through or mitigate dust, fog or other obscurants, explained Nathan Smith, MAG deputy program manager for UAS.

"We are facing a destructive barbaric ideology again and we have no right to allow those new obscurants to achieve their goals.

Philip Church's 3D LiDAR Imaging in Obscurants presentation at the Sensors Expo, LiDAR makes a truck look like a truck while radar displays a blob.

DVEs include weather conditions or obscurants that inhibit the aircraft crew's situational awareness and ability to make sense of its immediate surroundings, which can cause pilots to get disoriented and crash.

(15.) For more on obscurants for countertargeting, see Thomas J.

* A new clip-on Thermal Weapon Sight -- a compact, lightweight, all-weather, infrared imaging device that cuts through battlefield obscurants and delivers clear surveillance imagery.

In Section 5, comparison with fibrous aerosols obscurants is discussed; finally, conclusions are introduced in Section 6.