Night Ops

What's wrong with "they look cool"? Most of my camping gear is old milsurp BDUs & such. Shit's damn-near indestructible, rugged, comfortable, provides good protection from harsh terrain & vegetation, has lots of pockets for carrying hiking/camping/whatever gear and the pattern usually means you don'...

Look both ways and cross quickly, preferably from cover to cover or deep shadow and ideally at a bend in the road. It all boils down to personal preference where you keep your knife. I opt for the right calf or hip too, sometimes carrying it Sam Fisher-style horizontally on my belt, or clipped in my...

One should strive to learn as much as they can, this just happens to be a venue for all things stealth-related. If you've anything to share, particularly tips on dealing with modern security measures, go right ahead.

I've had my eye on A-TACs LE for a while and the only real difference I see with the X-variants is the addition of darker stripes not dissimilar to tigerstripe camo. My main reservation with LE/LEX is the colour scheme is just a tad too 'blue' for my environment. There are types of concrete/stone or...

Few people keep much cash at home these days anyway, unless they're drug dealers. And particularly younger people don't buy all that much jewellery.

Any idea what sort of security they have? Alarms, lights, cameras?

It'll be like NOPCON 2 on fast-foreward.

I meant you'd know more about nutrition than I do, Psych. Plus you seem to know more about dietary supplements & such not necessarily related to bulking up. As for the conditioning, it's basically... what's the opposite of 'Mithridatism'? Just... embracing the suck, essentially. Pushing your body to...

I've outlined general NO-related exercises to stay in shape but haven't gone into too much detail. They were small weekly/daily exercises to keep your mind & body tuned up in between long spans of not opping to avoid turning into a potato. If you're looking to go more in-depth during quarantine... w...

Padlocks and the locks around my house are usually what I practise on, with varying degrees of success. Some I can pick in under a minute, others I haven't even been able to turn yet. Just make sure you don't accidentally lock yourself in/out.

Hmm... has anyone seen the movie Inside Man with Clive Owen and Denzel Washington? During the opening scene, the robbers enter the bank disguised as painters and blind all the security cameras by pointing infrared spotlights directly into the lenses. IR is invisible to the human eye, but security ca...

Oiling hinges & slides is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Glad to see it still in use.

I've thought about trying this, but the only feasible way would be to have a laser (or multiple, from different directions) set up on a tripod aimed directly at the camera lens. This would drain batteries like a motherfucker but would certainly get the job done. Still, probably more trouble than it'...

You can get shemaghs in more 'tactical' colours on pretty much any website that sells tactical gear - even paintball & airsoft sites. You're also more likely to find one in a more breathable density of cotton or even have different patterns dyed in them. Failing that, any square (or triangular) piec...

Typically if the place has something worth protecting/stealing, they may add extra layers of physical security. Guards included. Although I've opped a few construction sites that had guards on them, even though there wasn't anything to steal. I've also infiltrated some higher-risk targets that had n...

It all boils down to personal preference. There are many ways of tying a shemagh as a mask or hood and I've never had a problem of one coming loose. The main drawback to shemaghs for me is that they can get pretty hot & sweaty, but I also have sniper veils made from a breathable mesh that are functi...

Eh, Assassin's Creed stopped being a stealth series long ago and now falls under the ever ambiguous 'action-adventure' genre, which Ubisoft has done to death at this point with their open-world sandbox collect-a-thons littered with microtransactions. And when I think "Viking", "stealth" isn't the fi...

Knives aren't a mandatory part of your loadout, but I always like to have one with me. Can't speak much for Boker knives myself, but CRKT do make some reasonably decent blades at affordable prices. As do Schrade, Gerber, ColdSteel (although their quality is a bit hit-or-miss), SOG and of course Benc...

There's already tonnes of videos on Youtube of people breaking & entering restricted areas and there's even channels showing you infiltration techniques (LockpickingLawyer is one example). I don't think I'd get in trouble for uploading my videos to Youtube (I actually uploaded them as private/unlist...

Not familiar with the SEAL training program. What's it consist of? For opping focus on cardio & agility, so keep up with the Parkour. Construction sites are a popular target of mine, industrial or otherwise. In areas with lots of warehouses & shit it's fun sometimes to just climb to the rooftops som...

Veteran's paranoia. I've not experienced it myself, but I'm aware of the phenomenon. Seems like it's a passing thing you just need to break through.

Well, you've already got your overall strategy down-pat. Got any other targets you feel like exploring?

Outside of PI or some sort of intelligence service, I'm not sure there's anyone "hiring" stealthy infiltrators. At least in no legitimate capacity.

I posted some basic training regimes some time ago to help one keep in shape and attuned for night ops: https://nightops.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1287 Simple exercises to develop & maintain situation awareness, sharpen one's senses, maintain fitness & agility and gear checks. Easy to follow, if...

Well it's still open. Would be a HUGE PR problem if that info was made public.

Is the data useful? 200GB is a lot to sift through.

I generally don't carry a phone with me on ops and make sure my cameras don't have GPS tracking. Monoculars are pretty compact, some you can conceal in the palm of your hand.

Even if you 'win' a case you usually still have to pay court fees & such, meaning you never truly come out on top. I try to skirt the law whenever necessary, covering my tracks to ensure I'm never caught in the first place. Hope we're able to provide some of that knowledge you find so useful.

Ah, almost forgot! Lone Target (TV series) while some of the scenarios seem a bit staged, it does hold some key lessons on escape & evasion.

"Out for a midnight stroll" usually works for me. Where I stroll or how I do so is nobody's business.

Generally speaking, you're better hidden than you think. Up close I often look at the camouflage pattern I'm wearing and think I stand out like a Christmas tree, but from a distance I can't distinguish even the bright white litter in the very same spot I was hiding in. Your eyes naturally pick up co...

Shouldn't be difficult to remove the IR filter, there's probably a tutorial or two on how to get it done easily. I'm not well versed in electronics myself, but it might be something to look into if you wanna make your own NO camera.

Even better. You don't lose grip that way.

I tend to prefer opping in cold weather personally. Moving in a manner unseen can be rather exhausting, especially over longer distances, and since I'm usually completely covered up my body heats up fast. Or did you mean until the snow subsides? Because snow is a real hindrance when it comes to cove...

Well, during a nation-wide quarantine for one. If the only way to move about is stealthily, then we'll be the only ones moving about.

Hollywood can never seem to do stealth well - although I suppose it's hard to capture on camera that which isn't supposed to be seen. Closest ones I can think of with Night Op-like elements are... Re:Born (2016) Sicario (2015) Shooter (2007) Dexter (TV series) The Hunted (2003) The Bourne trilogy No...

I said as much in this recent post. What we do is inherently frowned upon by those who don't know any better, but I'm sure you'd get concerned gazes if you were practising with knives & other weapons as part of your martial arts training in a public park, for instance. Thankfully, the cultivation of...

It's a niche subject we deal with here, along the same vein as martial arts, parkour, survival, firearms and military enthusiasts are concerned. Many of our common disciplines overlap, but while those other subgenres are populated with "expert" survivalists, athletes, competition shooters and servic...

Can also be used for silencing footsteps.

A mix of styles, although a lot of what I know of sentry removal come from military manuals.

I live in a pretty urban area, but I've always enjoyed opping in more rural areas myself. At the previous NOPCONs we opped primarily in rural areas with very little artificial lighting or structures (aside from the targets). Even if you can't find a suitable target, even doing some night hiking or m...

I recorded the Church Op using one of those cheap handycams with IR. While the footage turned out okay, it's a real pain to op with because the bright LED screen kills your nightvision. You essentially have to op through the lens of the camera.

I'm not an app person so I can't say. Anyone else wanna chime in?

Love re-purposing old gear like that.

Curfews never stopped me, they ain't gonna stop me now.

Split toes (diving or tabi boots) make it substantially easier to scale things like chain link fences or climb ropes, but other than that I haven't found many good reasons to wear them over more traditional footwear. In order to achieve the split toe shape, you're sacrificing protection & durability...

Just had an epic meal using ingredients harvested from the forest. Societal scarcity make you really appreciate what's up for the taking.

Imagine trying to claim that on an insurance form.

Well, it has opened up some interesting opportunities for me. Am I the only one here who's had to op for toilet paper?

Maybe you should use your stealth skills to do something useful like creep into people's houses and steal their jewelry and cash instead of fantasizing about Batman and ninjas. Then you'll be able to afford things like cameras, food, housing and whatever else you need to survive as an adult. You so...

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