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Hardrock69
11-01-2007, 08:25 AM
Last updated at 11:56am on 30th October 2007

New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.

In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.

The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank.


The result is that anyone looking in the direction of the vehicle only sees what is beyond it and not the tank itself.

A soldier, who was at the trials, said: "This technology is incredible. If I hadn't been present I wouldn't have believed it. I looked across the fields and just saw grass and trees - but in reality I was staring down the barrel of a tank gun."

How the technology works in a combat situation is very sensitive, but the MoD is believed to be testing a military jacket that works on the same principles.

It is the type of innovation normally associated with James Bond, and the brains behind the latest technology is the MoD's very own "Q" - Professor Sir John Pendry, of Imperial College London.

He said the only drawback was the reliability of the cameras and projectors.

But he added: "The next stage is to make the tank invisible without them - which is intricate and complicated, but possible."


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=490669&in_page_id=1811

BITEYOASS
11-01-2007, 11:02 AM
Well how the fuck is a platoon gonna see the tank heading toward them so they can get out of the way? More expensive BS the world doesn't need, just to keep defense contractors happy.

VanHalener
11-01-2007, 11:17 AM
That technology would be awesome for the deer and turkey hunt this year.

LoungeMachine
11-01-2007, 11:44 AM
Wont it still cast a shadow?

thome
11-01-2007, 04:12 PM
I call BS!!

I'll believe it when I see it.

LoungeMachine
11-01-2007, 04:45 PM
Originally posted by thome
I call BS!!

I'll believe it when I see it.

You mean when you DONT see it. ;)

stringfelowhawk
11-02-2007, 06:09 PM
This technology is already real and being used to a different extent. I read an article in Discover Magazine about 3 years ago about a "then" new technology which allowed micro cameras sewn into the lining of uniforms that captures and transmits the image from behind in every direction no matter where someone else is in relation to the uniform. It basically allows them to blend in so well they become essentially invisible i.e. the Predator. They claimed that like the movie if you don't move you can't be seen which is why they were continuing to tinker with it to allow it to work even while on the move. Its very possible they have done that on a larger scale. At the time they were testing its durability and effectiveness. The initial field tests using the technology was for a new type of Sniper uniform and then later other special forces.
Hell, that was at least 3 years ago so there is no telling how its evolved now.