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Egads: British Army working on invisible tanks
The British Ministry of Defense is cooking up a nasty surprise for enemy infantry and armor with a system it hopes will render its tanks invisible by 2012. Sounds a little shaky, but the invisible defense would employ a series of cameras and projectors to mask a tank by beaming images of the surrounding landscape onto it. So, if it works, instead of seeing a tank, you'd see the hill or house behind it. And then said hill or house would magically fire a tank shell at you.
Right now, the technology is still in development and doesn't sound too robust. But hey, the if-we're-invisible-they-can't-shoot-us defense is pretty hard to argue with, so why not work toward it?
Daily Mail, via Übergizmo
By Michael at 12:24 AM ON 11/29/07
Something akin to the car in the Bond movie, would love to see it in real-life.
By Zatree at 12:04 PM ON 12/24/07
There are other ways to make it invisible, the US government is working on a way to bend light around an object using nano-technology, they already have had some success bending one spectrum of light around a small object...Welcome to the future.
By raker at 10:35 PM ON 05/26/08
invisible to the naked eye...yes-
but if the enemy uses their IR scope or their targeting systems that use IR, they will be seen....a "house" giving off a tank's signature...i say just stick a big thick mirror on a sunny day and just blind them..or burn them...like that movie Untraceable with th heat bulbs...w.e.
By hammer at 3:58 PM ON 02/14/09
i think that this tank will be usefull except for the fact that i think it will be heard an that will warn the enemiess something is coming.
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