The American military’s technology research division Darpa is to investigate hi tech ‘battlefield illusions’ designed to baffle enemy troops, according to budget figures announced this week.
The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency is investing $4 million in the project, which includes research into causing ‘auditory and visual’ hallucinations in enemy troops.
The technologies could be similar to current measures designed to confuse radar systems, but applied to human beings.
The ‘illusions’ would likely use optical technology, and will be built to be mounted on vehicles.
‘The current operational art of human-sensory battlefield deception is largely an ad-hoc practice,’ says the agency.
The agency aims to investigate ‘how humans use their brains to process sensory inputs,’ to create technologies that will provide a tactical advantage on the battlefield.
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