Wes O'Donnell
Welcome to the age of infrared warfare, where the difference between life and death isn’t how fast you shoot but how cold you look.
Forget ghillie suits and face paint — Ukraine’s infantry is stepping into the future with a new breed of battlefield tech that renders them nearly invisible to thermal imagers and reconnaissance drones.
This isn’t some DARPA fever dream or Metal Gear cosplay — it’s real, it works, and it’s being fielded now by Ukraine’s 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Mariupol Brigade.
For most of military history, camouflage has been about tricking the human eye. Think tiger stripes in the jungle, desert tan in the Middle East, or pixelated digital camo that looks cool on recruiting posters but doesn’t do much in the field.
The goal was simple: don’t stand out.
But 2025’s battlefield doesn’t care what you look like to the naked eye — it cares what you look like to a drone circling two clicks overhead with a thermal sensor tuned to detect heat signatures the size of a rabbit.
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