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Luckey: Optical camouflage is not useful in modern defense
“The biggest problem with optical camouflage, and the main reason you don't see a lot of money being put towards it in the modern defense base is it's not actually that useful. It's useful against human adversaries who do not have any other technology to aid th…”
Luckey: Optical camouflage is easy to build but useless in modern defense
“The point is, visible spectrum optic camouflage is actually quite easy, but something like this would be trivially easily seen By you know, an infrared camera, thermal camera, you know, lidar, radar. So the biggest problem with optical camouflage, and the main…”
Luckey: Self-funding defense products creates better speed incentives
“Instead, we're investing our own money in building what we think the right products are, and then we sell them to the government. So we want to be going to the government Generally, with a product rather than a PowerPoint, or at least a prototype instead of a …”
Luckey: Moon Is Ideal for Phased Arrays and Electronic Warfare
“The Moon would be a great place for large phased array, like phased arrays, large antenna fields that can do a variety of electronic warfare schemes, radar tracking schemes”
Luckey: Camouflage from human eyes is easier than hiding from synthetic sensors
“It's a lot harder to hide from synthetic systems. So if you're talking about like, radars, or lidars, or, there's a large number of ways that you can see the world that are not just visible spectrum imaging. People are actually relatively easy to fix.”