Camouflaging stationary tanks and equipment is difficult, especially when you have to rely on scrim netting. This is horribly subject to snagging when dragged over the protrusions on a vehicle or a field gun.
Today’s invention is a simpler solution comprising an auxetic sheet material which changes, when stretched, from a smooth, flat sheet, to a self-supporting, 3D mesh structure.
This can be easily flattened, rolled up and stowed like a tarpaulin when the vehicle is deployed.
If you need to hide, the sheet can be dragged to a highpoint and then pulled down in several directions.
The sheet expands and covers whatever is necessary, obscuring it from view, but enabling a tank crew beneath still to make observations and target weapons.
When a rapid movement is ordered, the sheet can be released and walked inward to the high point. The continuous sheet is easy to then roll up without nearly so many snags and helped by the elastic spring-back of these materials.