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Letter: Camouflage may deceive more than one enemy

Published 17 July 2019

From David Aldred, Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK

A recent article mentions that the US Navy may wish to convince enemy forces that, for example, a Honda Civic car is a tank, or vice versa (29 June, p 9). To me, this sounds like an ideal excuse for any player with malign intent to blow up absolutely anything they want. They can then declare: “Our AI assured us the target was a military installation, though it was later established to have been a basket of kittens.”

Issue no. 3239 published 20 July 2019

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