Patent ID: 6873283

Claim:
Rapidly deployable camouflage for the application of camouflaging and signature-concealing volumes to military objects such as vehicles, tanks, artillery guns, etc., characterized by, in combination, a) a pneumatically inflatable camouflage balloon ( 1 ) whose surface it at least partly camouflaged against reconnaissance in visible light, IR, UT and/or radar radiation, which camouflage balloon has an opening ( 5 ) for inflation with air and at least one pull line ( 7 ) that is secured at one end to the inside of the balloon opposite said opening, making it possible to pull the balloon, in its deflated state and while undergoing reversal, into a compartment through an opening to which said opening of the camouflage balloon is joined, and b) a deployment and undeployment device that comprises a housing ( 2 ), a motor-driven fan ( 3 ) for supplying air to the housing, a motor-driven roller ( 20 ) in the housing, which roller is equipped with a securing device ( 23 ) for the opposite end of said at least one pull line ( 7 ), an opening ( 4 ) in the housing facing in a direction transverse to the motor-driven roller, which opening is equipped with a securing device ( 10 ) for the sealed mounting and securing said opening ( 5 ) of the camouflage balloon.