Vehicle Concealment

[Highlander]

(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.

Couple it with a little bit of digging, so that the ground is a little lower for the car to have even less of a profile, and you're good to go. Providing you have drainage for any water to run off, you will have a pretty well concealed hiding place.

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

This is how it is usually done, depending on the direction, an opening would give a large black shadow and will be seen a long way off, more commonly you create a doorway that can be lifted,... drive out and return if needed,.... although normally the ability to drive out is for emergencies only.

Hiding tracks is never easy, and will depend on the ground you are crossing,...if it is farm land, you may be lucky enough to have tracks everywhere, so yours will not stand out.

If not then the usual training is to drive around the edge of the open space to your chosen spot, never straight across, the tracks may well be noticed, but this is how a farmer would travel, and often the edge of the field is more solid, so shows less tracks.

I do remember once when in the army on exercise,....we had to cross an open space on a frosty morning, we had no choice,... so what we did was all cross in each others tracks, so that only one track was made,... then we all got out and used our foot powder to sprinkle into the two lines that we had made, disguising the tracks.

This is only a temp measure of course, but we did find out later on after the excersise, that `enemy` the planes that had been searching for us, had passed over that spot and had failed to find us,...and by the time the sun had melted the frost, we were well gone