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. Scroll down for more...: Now you see it: How the tank might look with background images beamed onto the side 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." Breakthrough: The MoD's 'Q', Professor Sir John Pendry 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."

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great invisible assassins i wondered how long it be before they sell it to other countries

i cant see it please dont shoot me im getting help

An American designed this technology. My friend, who is a molecular physicist invented this technology. He told me about it last year.

I guess my article about The Philadelphia Experiment don't seem so nuts now eh?

It doesn't seem so impressive to me. Cameras and projectors work to put an image on it. How the heck will they get cameras and projectors in combat?

I guess that gives lot of protection but they are still easily detected for example with infrared cameras.

Are there "screens" to project the images on all the way around the tank? I mean... what the hell?

Yes, but imagine the psychological effect, say in an urban environment; you can hear it, but, at first glance anyway, you can't see it... it probably wouldn't fool anyone for too long, but it would be quite a usful trick, I should think.

Soon invisible aircraft and invisible troops. Good for the covert arm of the British Army I suppose.