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US Firm Vigil Autonomy Unveils Air Cover Flying Camouflage to Hide Vehicles From Thermal and Radar
Vigil Autonomy introduced Air Cover, an autonomous system intended to position interchangeable camouflage canopies over vehicles and equipment and lift them as decoys. The company offers personal, unit and asset configurations covering 4, 9 and 100 square metres, with the largest version targeting two hours of active flight. Its software is designed to control canopy placement, orientation and reassignment while managing thermal-infrared and synthetic-aperture-radar signatures. Published endurance figures are targets, and Vigil has not released measured signature-reduction results, government test findings or production-customer details, leaving the system’s advertised concealment performance unproven.