Study of Camouflage Operational Methods During Designing & Manufacture

Measures of passive defense on a moving or stationary target - from its conceptual design stage to the end and utilizing - are executable and these measures include specific methods and techniques during different stages of target's life cycle. Camouflage measures which are one of important axes of passive defense are also executable during different stages of target's life cycle. Some parts of these measures which are considered during target's designing and manufacture are shaping, applying infrastructures and specific plans to the structure (in order to manage system's signature) and applying special structural materials in the system's structure known as a built- in camouflage which is of particular importance.Knowing new methods and technologies and applying them to the built- in camouflage of targets in a proper time will reduce cost of target's camouflage measures and increase conservation and effectiveness of passive defense. In many cases, by proper and timely using the built- in measures, the need for other methods will be minimum, otherwise, the cost of passive defense will increase and its conservation will be unfavorable. Since, the built- in measures applied during designing and manufacturing of a target, mostly use material and designs similar to the preliminary ones but with a passive defense approach, so in comparison with camouflage add-on methods such as paint or camouflage net, etc they are more effective and create less inertia for the user to execute the passive defense. Meanwhile, the built- in camouflage is more acceptable for the designers of large, stationary, civil and strategic targets like nuclear industry, petroleum, gas and petrochemical.