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Those
of us from the Brown-Boot army remember when the topic taught was “Survival,
Evasion and Escape.” In other words, your survival is at risk unless you
can also evade potential captors and escape to friendly territory. In those days, the only aid one’s trackers was likely to have would be your careless footprints and dogs. Today, good guys and bad guys alike use infrared detectors in the form of hand-held devices or sophisticated instruments on aircraft. Check. Now, you can defeat a 200,000-ruble FLIR with a $40 plastic bag. Checkmate. Not just any plastic bag, but a high-tech development by Corporate Air Parts originally designed as an emergency survival bag — an international orange, heat-containing, thermal-protective aid designed to ward off the effects of hypothermia in downed pilots and others stranded in the water or wilderness. The original LAND/Shark emergency survival bag became essential gear for anyone who must provide their own protection from the elements, and the new StealthBag is essential gear for those in a SERE scenario whose survival depends on their ability to hide not only from visual detection but sophisticated infrared detectors, as well. |
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As
a heat blocker, the original LAND/Shark bag would keep your vital body
heat in, or keep debilitating heat from the sun out. The StealthBag keeps your heat in for survival
and has an aluminized color when turning the bag inside out to aid rescuers to spot you visually.
The StealthBag has “chocolate-chip” desert cammo pattern
for visual camouflage, and still retains radiant body heat so the user
cannot be picked up by infrared-seeking instruments. The StealthBag was tested on a variety of commercial and military-grade infrared detection equipment. The highly regarded FLIR, Inc. Model 2000AB chopper-mounted IR detector (operating in the 8-14 micron wavelength range), was unable during a 30-minute test to locate three individuals inside StealthBags. When the original LAND/Shark was introduced, SOF ran tests with a Life-Finder hand-held IR detector, with similar results. Weighing less than a G.I. poncho, the StealthBag comes vacuum-packed for long-term storage in a mylar bag, in a 600-denier nylon carrying pouch. After a knife, this is now the first item that gets put in our go pack, for certain protection against whatever elements one may encounter on land, sea or air. The StealthBag is available at an introductory discount price of $49.95 plus $6.99 shipping/handling from Corporate Air Parts, Dept. SOF, 7641 Densmore Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91406-2043; phone: 818-997-0512; fax: 818-997-0478; web site: www.stealthbag.com . |
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