Vehicle Concealment

[Grumpy Grandpa]

(20 September 2013, 10:13)Scythe13 Wrote: Would it not make sense to build a net structure, with the front end open, so that you can drive your vehicle into it, like LS's and BP's barn concept, but made out of camo netting and the alike? So you are able to drive your vehicle into the shelter, then close up the back end, as well as drive quickly back out of the structure.

Any help of hiding tracks made by your vehicle while driving into these kinds of places?

Scythe, in the units I served in, exercise locations were often farmyards or hamlets and in such, we often built cam in that way. The object then was not to break up the straight lines but to make them, abutting farm buildings, so that from any distance, they appeared to be lean-to's or sheds. For these, we used painted hessian and not nets. A half-decent job with a paintbrush could be quite effective.

As for vehicle tracks, they're a great deal harder to cover than footprints and as HL said, probably the best you can do (other than staying on solid surfaces,) is to follow the edges; the hedgerows, the tree lines, the field edges - never across the open space.