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I wonder what they're looking up on YouTube that's useful for modern battlefield conditions.
Circa 2014 I found one of those crazy chud American doomsday preppers on YouTube that had somehow managed to make a ghillie suit which was invisible to thermal optics. I think he was planning to fight Obama/the land management authorities if they did something to his ranch? So maybe stuff like that.
The guy was obviously nuts, but still smart. I wonder what happened to him.
100% he is in prison for drug, guns, tax, or assault charges. Most of those guys end up like that.
Or a lot of them have undiagnosed mental diseases and disorders, and they get help for them which causes them to abandon and try to distance themselves from their previous interests.
Mylar backed camo pattern tarp with netting?
Yeah it was a space blanket/mylar, but to prevent themselves overheating from wearing the suit, they cut and layered it like scales on a fish, so that there could be airflow, then just normal ghillie suit stuff. At least that's what I remember.
That’s smart. Sounds like something I’d like to invest time into.
I think they also did some experiments with glass because the thermal optics can't see through it I think? Was pretty interesting
Thermal optics are picking up on Infra-Red radiation, yeah? I wonder if UV treated glass/plastic is what they were tinkering with...
I know if you're on the cheaper end of the tech spectrum wool blankets offer the same amount of thermal/IR immunity so for individuals it can offer short term cover - until the blanket heatsinks your body heat into it - and collective protection when used as a form of tarp in conjunction with camo netting and other natural camoflage.
Gotta be careful if it gets wet too. If its warm anyways, the extra thermal mass the blanket will take on will reduce its effectiveness if the blanket is touching you.
Though, if its cold enough to freeze water... you could soak a wool blanket, stretch it out, and I bet when it freezes solid it'd be useful.
Yeah shit like that. Practical shit that could be universally learned so should we ever find ourselves in the shit we'll hopefully increase our own life expectancy.
HOI4 challenge videos.
I was thinking more "how to make decent trenches" or "how to avoid getting hit by artillery", or even stuff like "camouflage considerations against IR equipped opfor". Maybe quite a few videos for trying to figure out what random shit in their nato vehicles do so they don't do something silly like accidentally turn on the heater when you meant to disable the weapons safety feature.
Survivalist videos? How to avoid hypothermia/how to reduce your heat footprint to escape thermals/ how to clean and maintain your guns (many military weapons have identical civilian counterparts minus full auto), how to clean water in emergencies, how to identify edible plants/mushrooms.
Basic battlefield and squad tactics. How to make booby traps, tripwires, and traps. How to organize squads and advance/retreat.
Ironically the US military has some very good videos on YouTube for how to advance a squad, lay down covering fire, set up ambushes, effectively use different squad roles, and how to coordinate air and artillery forces. I’m sure there are plenty such videos for a wide range of topics.
Oh I'm well aware of the official stuff and even the stuff made by non-professional veterans doing their civil war 2 larping, I'm curious about what specifics do the guys over in Ukraine are looking up since it would serve as a good barometer of what actually works in field conditions vs what works in theory. But that'd require me to dive into the Ukraine war pigs side of the internet and I don't want to inflict psychic damage on myself lmao.
and what language are the videos in?
Probably a mix of Russian, Ukrainian, and multi-lingual stuff.