Re: Tinted headlight bulbs

[Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made four.rings@MCIONE.com say:

> Fellow ex-military officers on the list (Unka Bart, Gross, care to
> comment?) know that personnel carriers, trucks and tanks have special
> "spectacles" put on in the full blown stealth combat guise. Those
> "spectacles" are essentially steel headlight covers with narrow (~1-2cm)
> slits with blue light filters.
> Blue light is used in this application simply because of its
> indetectability by air surveillance.

Ahh, that's why blue bulbs are so popular in states with
speed enforcement aircraft :-)

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