Night time defense

IR filter on a flashlight and a camcorder makes a nifty night vision device. Picks up other IR that may be looking at you.
Pull string party poppers are easy to rig up.
10' pieces of barbed wire wadded up loosely and thrown around the yard.
Two way handheld radio placed 25' away from the house will spook anyone if they are between it and your house. Just say something like "We have them covered from back here".

 

Bottom line is ,those using the better technology will last longest than those using lesser .
If you have the money for radar and can protect it during an EMP that will be the ultimate in surveillance , few people in the world would suspect such an investment. .
Secondly a structure that is wired for sound inside and out and to your security room 3-4-5hundred yards away . the structure is completely expendable but it is one that visitors are likely to enter and possibly discuss strategy ,if you have roving patrols they can use it for shelter and communication . can be simple as an old truck camper.

 

Did you make your own IR filter for your flashlight? I searched and found a video on do it yourself. I would rather make then buy.

I like your home defense plan, very simple and is frugal. Never thought of the party poppers but they would work as long as they didn't get wet.

 

Think like "Charlie" did in Nam. I can come up with a lot of unexpected surprises.

 

Ran into a lot of similar in Bosnia and Ass-ganastan, you would be supprised at how simple and effective some of that can be!

 

Motion sensing lights surprise attackers and let you know the direction of approach.
Security cameras are great and can let you watch real time in the dark.
The IR light on IR enabled security cameras let you use your night vision equipment without giving away your position with the IR flashlight.
Solar powered driveway alarms are helpful but tend to throw a lot of false alarms.
Multiple rows of fencing/gates will slow down and/or deter an attack.
Dogs can be used as one more line of defense or deterrent.

Natural choke points on your property are good places to put cameras, alarms, lights, etc. The depth of your defense can be key, by the time your attacker(s) have encountered their 3rd or 4th obstacle they may be inclined to move on, regardless, this will buy you some time to notice them and prepare. You want your defense to be somewhat elastic, meaning you need to 'absorb' the attack and make sure you have pre-planned fighting positions/fortifications that are strategically placed to take advantage of your lights, cameras, choke points, and obstacles.

 

I'd like to read about those one day....Just say'n

 

Snakes man Snakes as Seacowboy would say, Gut hooked at about face level and mad as Hades!

 

if the grid is down you need to use that to your advantage - lull everyone with low-level perimeter lighting like tiki torches - have defensive flood lighting for the choke points and catch any offenders in both backliting and front facing to blind them >>>> if there are streets involved you can even wire in the street lites ...

you don't want to rely on party poppers - too unreliable when used outdoors >>>>> use a fuse igniter and a package of Black Cat firecrackers - Trip Alarm Fuse Igniter

 

Very good find Illini Warrior, the trip flare igniter uses standard 209 primers and I know they have some heat and will ignite fuses. I have seen ones years ago that used cap gun caps etc, and were useless. $25 isn't too bad and it looks like it would be easy to reverse engineer if you had a metal lathe, taps and dies, not as nice or professional, but I bet something could be figured out that would allow you to make a couple dozen cheap ones. While illegal now, simple mods would allow some lethal systems to be made like the ones used hundreds of years ago to "limit" poaching deer in the King's forest. Can't help but think of the effect of a low altitude mortar type fireworks like they use at the 4 th of July, the flash bang ones they usually start the show with that both dazzle you and render you half deaf. Looks like if you replaced the 209 with a push button switch and a battery, you could use electrically controlled devices as well.

 

I started out with military IR headlights on my Bronco, then IR Filters on a few flashlights, and now have LED IR illuminators mounted on the house. These I power from my 12v system so they stay on if the power goes out. I also have SV3C IP cameras feeding Blue Iris software on mine and my neighbors houses. Good to have a neighbor like this so the camera on my side of his house sees most of my property, and vice-versa.
Buy your IR filters. The last thing you want is a little red beacon from an inefficient IR filter. I have also played with a $12 strobe light from the Halloween store. If I were to look out and see IR sources looking back at me, experimentation has shown me that the little strobe will flare an IR viewer and make it useless 50 to 60 yards out, and totally ruin an aggressors night vision.
Past experience taught me that the best time to attack a manned target is between 2 and 4 a.m. An organized force will understand this and choose to act at least under cover of darkness. If they have NV gear, it's good to have a plan to defeat that as a first line of defense.

 

Remember before there were motion sensors that opened grocery store doors there was a pressure mat you stepped on that trigger the door opener.
Some even had a chime, to alert the store keeper.
This is not high tech electronics, this is a very basic contact switch. a moron could build these in his bed room .
Choose the area most likely to be used for seeking in and use plywood as a base and step board and springs to lift so that it takes about 100 lbs to make contact on wire in between the 2 boards. cover the surface of the top board so it is not easily recognized .
run a pair of wires to the house to a light bulb/buzzer and power.
Have several and your lights designated on a board so you know the area the threat is coming.

 

There is a tape you can buy at hobby stores, I used building my daughters doll house. That is great for low power contact switches. The tape has 2 fine wires running the full length. Its used for adding lights to doll houses. I made a mat once by taking 2 pieces of shelf acetate. And sticking them together, then using a 1/4" or 3/8"leather punch( don't remember, needs to be big enough for both wires to go though hole and stay somewhat tight), Cut out several rolls of holes. on one side run the tape over the holes in 1 direction, making sure all the wire connections are made and work. then flip over and run tape over the hole in a crosswise direction, doing the same on connections. then carefully pull the tape paper backing off the wires in each hole, from each side. I then took slightly larger sheets of shelf acetate. And sandwiched the whole works, with the wires coming out one side. Made a nice waterproof mat that could be used as an activator. It was an experiment that actually worked out for a militia training session. just FYI

 

Or some variation.....................

 

I remember playing with one of those in ROTC. I also remember thinking, "This would be so easy to DYI". Dixie will rise again!

 

You may know about this ?
The cattle fence chargers that zap you're azz with about a zillion volts.
Can some of these run off lets say 12volt battery's and solar panels?

 

Yes, electric fencers (more correctly called chargers) can be had to run on 12vdc batteries which can be recharged from solar panels. They will get your attention but voltage is non-lethal. Now if you set barb off on insulators you double your effectiveness.

 

Big dogs. I can wake from a crash outside and see the dog look up at me in the dark and know it was a distant noise.
Dogs can sense distance and direction to noises outside far better than I can. Being able to read their response lets me know what comes next.