Comment by wildzzz
14 days ago
Daylight helps you just as much as your enemy. We've got plenty of cutting edge night vision and thermal imaging devices for humans and radar on vehicles. The Army's 160th helicopter regiment can fly nap of the earth on a moonless night. Satellite-based Synthetic Aperture Radar can pickup human sized objects during a pass and can switch to sub-centimeter resolution in finer modes. If anything, the military prefers fighting at night because of the advantage it holds.
> Daylight helps you just as much as your enemy.
Not if you're persistently using it for multi-week sleep deprivation operation to "soften up" an area before attacking.
I guess there's some niche applications but that's easily defeated with blackout curtains. Plus soldiers on a base are already pulling night shifts, making everyone on a "night shift". Still, they can only guarantee 100 lux (comparable to indoor lighting) for continuous periods with 50k+ satellites. That's a shit ton of infrastructure all tuned into one small operation.