Army tests invisible tank

[Owlscrying]

The Army is reportedly testing secret technology which makes tanks and troops invisible.

The Ministry of Defence revealed they made a vehicle seem to completely disappear in trials last week.

The highly secret trials were conducted by the Royal Engineers and scientists from specialist researchers QinetiQ, the former research arm of the MoD.

The breakthrough uses cameras and projectors to beam images captured from the surrounding landscape on to a specially-adapted tank coated with silicon to maximise their reflective qualities.

The result is that the naked eye sees only the view which is behind the tank.

The MoD are also testing a military jacket which works on the same principles.

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[chemical-licker]

remembering the film philidelphia experiment, hope no one gets transported in time

[ships-cat]

HAH - that's NOTHING. Over the last few years, the Minister of Defence (via the Treasury) has made several frigates a and destroyers, serveral wings of Jet Aircraft, two infantry regiments, and all of the military hospitals dissapear.

Meow Purr.

[fylgja]

My friend (a molecular physicist) developed the technology for this. He told me about it last Christmas when he was visiting and I couldn't believe it. He brought a sample to show me. It's actually pretty simple and not what you are expecting.

Edited October 30, 2007 by fylgja

[Starscream]

The Army is reportedly testing secret technology which makes tanks and troops invisible.

The result is that the naked eye sees only the view which is behind the tank.

the japanese did this with paint

THey would paint zeros blue to use them on clear days and we saw 1 white one with yellow paint

on the inside tip of the blades.It was a foggy day not very far from the main island,

it was flying just above the clouds when it came on the radar,at first he thought it was a shadow

of his plane then when he went down closer he knew it was a zero from the shape,

when it droped into the clouds and he lost it, this was at the end of the war near Tokyo

the Pilot called it a fallen angle the navy loged it aUFO/"invisible target"

after the war was over Nimitz started the blue angles to let them know we knew

[BELOWIM]

Oh Owl I have seen technology, even in the public EYE, see trough wall's, X,ray imaging, To make invisible is blanket technology! Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..................

[stevewinn]

Great News i remember reading about this in the MOD oracle about 4 years ago,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770

Edited November 1, 2007 by stevewinn

[ships-cat]

But yeronour... surely this would only work if you are standing on the same axis as the lens of one of the camera's ? Otherwise you will see paralax discontinuities. (e.g. you will see the view 'behind' the tank, but will NOT be the view that you SHOULD see, but a view slightly off-centre.).

I guess this might be good enough if the tank was static... but I'm struggling to envisage this making a 'moving' tank "invisible".

Mind you... even if it made it's outlines "confused" rather than "invisible", that would still be a boon on a battlefield.

Mind you... the comic possibilities...

Colonel Whythington-Spoonsbury: "Very well Captain Blunt (for it is he), the Russians are moving. Scramble your tank brigade and rendevouz with the US 5th Armoured at Frankfurt. And for gawds sake put that bladdy guitar away."

Captain Blunt SAH - IMMEDATELY SAH ! <dashes off humming a tune about Wise Men>

<20 minutes elapses amidst much swearing and cursing.... >

Captain Blunt "SAH... beg to report some difficulties sah... the men can't find their tanks... "

Colonel Whythington-Spoonsbury "WHAT ? Where are they ? "

Captain Blunt <walking towards the empty tank park> "They're supposed to be somewhere around THUD ouch... found them Sah.... "

Meow Purr.

[Gatofeo]

Somebody sprayed my bank account with silicon.

Where'd all my paycheck go?

It's been rendered invisible, accordiing to my bank statement. <grumble>