Quote Originally Posted by Jerry R View Post
Curious. Available to civilians? In the comments, body heat transfers to the material reducing thermal effectiveness after a time. Might be useful to folks too old to hump ruck, they could lay in the weeds (speaking for myself). Following ...
Not sure if available. On the body heat transfer thing, I had a few thoughts as I was reading the comments.

I remember watching a video from Lone Star Boars a long time ago (looking for it now as they are not on YT anymore). He demonstrated how both NV and thermal act with a number of barriers in place. Everything from fog to glass and so on including small bushes and so forth.

I would think if you had some kind of 'stand off' from the actual material it would mitigate (somewhat) the heat transfer. IE if you had a lean-two vs wearing it directly on your body, or even if you just hung it up over a bush or something and got behind it, it would prevent at least some of the problem.

I found that video I was referencing above on Rumble. That video was made probably 10 yrs ago so this isn't 'new', at least not in concept. The moral of the story is that with the correct understanding of how both NV and/or thermal work (as long as you are aware of the situation) both of those technologies can be mitigated in a combat type of environment.

https://rumble.com/v3jw37d-3rd-gen-n...s-thermal.html