[harpseal]

Great find on the limitations of thermal imaging. I am wondering what some of those disposable hand warmers scattered about would do to thermal imaging. They go to about 140 degrees F and are relatively inexpensive. Lower tech in an urban envirornment might include such things as dumpster fires and the ever popular 55 gal drum with garbage burning.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[Travis McGee]

As long as the point heat sources are behind or under something to diffuse them I would think they would be effective.

One of the strong points of FLIR is to tell if a structure is inhabited or empty. In my book there is an ambush of the STU at a remote trailer hidden in the boonies. Lights and a kerosene heater and a radio left on a talk station inside make it appear inhabited, cell phones belonging to targeted individuals serve as a beacon to draw in the STU. The trailer is command detonated when the STU team does its 0200 no knock attack.

Poohbah gave me the idea of turning lemons into lemonade by using their cell phone tracking capability against them, like a salt lick and corn for deer.