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CCD

No, not a charge-coupled device. Camouflage, concealment and deception.

Check this out for an amazing (even if slightly paranoid, given the distances involved) example.

When I was a young lieutenant I was assigned a training mission to execute a simulated Walleye strike on a target complex in Fallon, Nevada. My target was a long building in a “terrorist training complex.” The local aviators from Strike University had done a pretty impressive job of creating a shadow-fall to make the long building in the center of the compound look like two buildings instead instead of one, hoping of confounding my target acquisition.

The instructors reviewed my weapons system video after the strike, confirming that I had struck the right target. “How did you see through the CCD?” they asked. The answers was that I had never even noticed it. I had done my target study and there was only one building in the middle of that compound. Sometimes you get lucky.

Now I guess we just thank God for GPS.

(H/T to David K. for the link.)

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