烟幕作为一种辅助掩护性武器,早在第一次世界大战中就曾经得到使用。至第二次世界大战中,烟幕武器更是在战场上广泛应用,其规模也越来越大。1943年10～11月,苏军反攻作战强渡第聂伯河时,曾在69个渡口施放了烟幕伪装。德军为轰炸渡口出动了2300多架次飞机,但由于烟雾的掩护只有6枚炸弹命中渡口。许多国家还建立了专门的烟幕部队,美国陆军当时就有8个烟幕营,40个烟幕连,其中 The smoke screen, as a complementary protective weapon, was used as early as in World War I. By the Second World War, smokescreen weapons were widely used on the battlefield and their scale was also growing. From October to November 1943, when the Soviet rebel forces crossed the Dnieper River, they used smite camouflage at 69 ferry crossings. The Germans dispatched more than 2,300 multi-carrier aircraft to the bombing ferry, but only 6 bombs hit the ferry due to smoke cover. Many countries also established specialized smokescreen units. At that time, the U.S. Army had 8 smokestacks and 40 smokescreens, of which