File:Adaptiv_infrared_camouflage_demo_hiding_tank_as_car.jpg Knowpia

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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	BAE Systems in 2011 announced its 'Adaptiv' infrared camouflage technology. The frames in the image show an armoured vehicle with Adaptiv off (left) and on (right), where the chosen object is a large car (camouflage by mimesis). The non-car parts of the image copy the background infrared pattern (camouflage by crypsis).
Author or copyright owner	BAE Systems
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: The website listed below. Immediate http://www.baesystems.com/image/BAES_019603/innovation-adaptiv-car-signature
Date of publication	2011
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Camouflage
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	The image is the first and only example of practical active image-forming camouflage (in the infrared or otherwise). It thus perfectly illustrates the potential military use of adaptive camouflage which is at once mimetic (e.g. looking like a car) and cryptic (looking like the background). The technology is discussed in the article.
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	It would be extraordinarily difficult to recreate the situation depicted, as it requires both an infrared camera/weapon sight to take the picture, and an Adaptiv-fitted armoured vehicle; further, the vehicle would have to be directed to switch its camouflage off and on to a 'car' or similar setting, at night, in front of the camera and a suitable natural background. This is unlikely to happen with a costly and somewhat secretly-specified military vehicle except in the very special situation of the technology's creator intentionally publishing initial proof-of-concept images such as this one, while non-military vehicles are unlikely ever to be so equipped. Therefore a) there is currently no alternative, free illustration; b) none is likely to be published freely in future; and c) it is unlikely anyone else could create such an image.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Only the one image of Adaptiv is used in the article. It is used at low resolution, much less than the original.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	BAE systems have published a much higher resolution (4000 x 2260 pixel) version of the image at http://www.baesystems.com/cs/groups/public/documents/digitalmedia/mdaw/mdm4/~edisp/~extract/BAES_019603~1~staticrendition/original.jpg so it is already available to all the world's media. The small image here in no way competes with that.
Other information	Similar images based on the original have been shown on public service television such as the BBC, and on other TV channels such as Fox and Sky news.
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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	BAE Systems in 2011 announced its 'Adaptiv' infrared camouflage technology. The frames in the image show an armoured vehicle with Adaptiv off (left) and on (right), where the chosen object is a large car (camouflage by mimesis). The non-car parts of the image copy the background infrared pattern (camouflage by crypsis).
Author or copyright owner	BAE Systems
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: The website listed below. Immediate http://www.baesystems.com/image/BAES_019603/innovation-adaptiv-car-signature
Date of publication	2011
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Adaptiv
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	This is the technology described in this article, and the image vividly makes clear the camouflage effect of the technology in a way that words could not.
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	It would be extraordinarily difficult to recreate the situation depicted, as it requires both an infrared camera/weapon sight to take the picture, and an Adaptiv-fitted armoured vehicle; further, the vehicle would have to be directed to switch its camouflage off and on to a 'car' or similar setting, at night, in front of the camera and a suitable natural background. This is unlikely to happen with a costly and somewhat secretly-specified military vehicle except in the very special situation of the technology's creator intentionally publishing initial proof-of-concept images such as this one, while non-military vehicles are unlikely ever to be so equipped. Therefore a) there is currently no alternative, free illustration; b) none is likely to be published freely in future; and c) it is unlikely anyone else could create such an image. (It may be noted that lookalikes to BAE Systems' other publicity photographs of Adaptiv would not be so difficult to obtain, as they would not require special setup and backgrounds, though it might be some years before they could be taken e.g. at an arms fair; but this image could not be recreated in that way.)
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Only the one image of Adaptiv is used in the article, and it is shared with the Camouflage article. It is used at low resolution, much less than the original.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	BAE systems have published a much higher resolution (4000 x 2260 pixel) version of the image at http://www.baesystems.com/cs/groups/public/documents/digitalmedia/mdaw/mdm4/~edisp/~extract/BAES_019603~1~staticrendition/original.jpg so it is already available to all the world's media. The small image here in no way competes with that.
Other information	Similar images based on the original have been shown on public service television such as the BBC, and on other TV channels such as Fox and Sky news.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Adaptiv//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adaptiv_infrared_camouflage_demo_hiding_tank_as_car.jpgtrue

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	BAE Systems 'Adaptiv' infrared camouflage technology.
Author or copyright owner	BAE Systems
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	(immediate and original publication) http://www.baesystems.com/image/BAES_019603/innovation-adaptiv-car-signature
Date of publication	2011
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Active camouflage
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	Demonstrate an actual instance of such a technology - all the rest are frankly just talk.
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	essentially impossible; other technologies don't exist, and this technology remains largely confidential.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Only the one image of Adaptiv is used in the article, and it is shared with the Camouflage article. It is used at low resolution, much less than the original. Listing here shows the technology in context alongside other camouflage methods in a minimal and proportionate way.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	BAE systems have published a much higher resolution (4000 x 2260 pixel) version of the image at http://www.baesystems.com/cs/groups/public/documents/digitalmedia/mdaw/mdm4/~edisp/~extract/BAES_019603~1~staticrendition/original.jpg so it is already available to all the world's media. The small image here in no way competes with that.
Other information	Similar images based on the original have been shown on public service television such as the BBC, and on other TV channels such as Fox and Sky news.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Active camouflage//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adaptiv_infrared_camouflage_demo_hiding_tank_as_car.jpgtrue

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