Front-line soldiers in Ukraine have started wearing “invisibility cloaks” to prevent their thermal signatures from being detected by Russian soldiers, ABC News reported on Monday.
Patrick Liebel claimed in a video uploaded by ABC that the cloak, which allows Ukrainian soldiers to “block body heat and keep it inside” and evade detection, is domestically made. did.
Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of the fight against Russian aggression are under threat from hidden thermal cameras. In response to this, a domestically produced “invisibility cloak” has been deployed.
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The video appeared to feature the cloak's co-creator Maxim Bolyak and Liebel showing off the cloak and its features. “They call it the invisibility cloak. One of the threats that Ukrainian soldiers face on the front lines is that Russia has thermal imaging scanners that can detect soldiers within cover,” Liber said. said in the video. Liber claimed that the cloak allowed him to: Ukrainian Soldiers would “remain completely hidden” from such scanners. (Related: Valerievich: Military budget is meaningless if there is no will to fight)
Thermal scanners appeared in the video to show the big difference between those wearing cloaks and those without. “Now you're looking at me. Not now,” Mr. Leavell was heard saying as the co-creator put on his cloak and turned, and the signs of fever faded.
“Does Ukraine have enough of these at the moment?” Liber asked Boryak in the video.
“Of course not. In war, in the army, there is never enough,” Boryak answered. Boryak said making the cloak is difficult and time-consuming. “If one person works all day long, he can make one cloak in two days,” he said. Boryak estimated that the number of cloaks in the entire army may be less than his 40, and that he paid for the production costs out of his own pocket.
The technology was promoted by Ukraine's Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov in a Facebook post as a “super defense against Russian technology.” translated Translated into English by the Ukrainian World Congress in October 2023. Russian company HiderX announced in Newsweek on January 19 its own version of the Ukrainian cloak to hide its soldiers from Ukrainian thermal imaging technology. reportThis was reported by Russian state news agency TASS.
