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Another form of night driving rarely practiced was to use infra red (IR) devices. Clip on lenses that fit over wheeled vehicle headlights were used on wheeled vehicles. Tanks, APCs, howitzers and other tracked vehicles have built in IR lights. A vision device would be used by the driver and...

Successful B.O. driving requires control of the total environment, something that the average Army Brigade or Corps Command does not supply. In WW2 with the Red Ball Express a movement control system was put in place to regulate movement such as might be found on a railroad. Parallel roads were...

Blackout driving is a fantasy that the Army has clung to since WW2 when the target acquisition capabilities of the OPFOR air force were limited to the pilots vision. They are designed to be invisible from any height above 90' but visible horizontally for considerable distances. The "Wheeled...