USMC vehicles, may display blinking IR lights
During the march to Baghdad, USMC combat vehicles (and some troops) had "blinking IR strobes" mounted at night, in addition to the IR panels and orange air panels.
In this specific instance the Iraqi IR capability was nominal. The stobes were used to prevent fratricide. Also worked VERY well to mark forward line of troops and let support by fire units guage the advance of assault elements.
Against a better equipped/more competent enemy this would not have been done.
In T2K, I'm not sure it would be as usefull since few people are going to have functional IR/thermal sights.
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