Source: FOX News
According to the British Ministry of Defence they now have a tank that is virtually impossible to see and is completely invisible to observers standing at a certain point. The technology relies on an intricate array of cameras and projectors.
“This technology is incredible,” an unnamed soldier was quoted by the Daily Mail and Sun. “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.”
This latest in optical technology has a camera film the background, which is then projected upon a special surface applied to the tank. The technology could also be used to hide nearly anything the camera and projector could be mounted on.
Fox reported that one person was willing to go on the record in all three British newspaper stories — theoretical physicist Sir John Pendry of Imperial College London, one of the world’s leading experts on surface reflectivity and lead author of a widely reported paper last year that said a “cloak of invisibility” would theoretically be possible.
“The drawback at the moment is the dependence upon cameras and projectors,” the Sun quoted Pendry, who did not confirm an implied connection with the defense project. “The next stage is to make the tank invisible without them — which is intricate and complicated, but possible.”
Sounds like it was designed by David Copperfield. It's only invisible under certain controlled conditions and environments.
Sounds like an idea companion to a cop and his radar gun...not!
Speaking of cops and guns -- There is now a new camera device hooked to a police officers pistol that is activated the minute they draws the firearm from their holsters and it sees everything the officer is aiming the pistol at, even viewing the shot if the gun is fired.
This device is being used in conjunction with the dash-mounted camera in the officer's vehicle to ensure that officers are not prematurely drawing their weapon and it also will show that, in most cases, an officer is justified in doing so.
They are now available for law enforcement across the United States.
Actually, to me it sounds almost exactly like the camo system used by Pierce Bronson as James Bond for his car in ... I forget which movie, but it was the one he drove it on a frozen lake a lot.
It also sounds like *this* version is *very* limited. You have to be standing in *exactly* the right spot. How often does that happen with tanks in the field?
I challenge either Richard, Fred or EddieLa to come up with something better. I think it is an amazing idea and will no doubt be built upon to come up with even more spectacular outcomes.
Sounds good, but how will it do against thermal imagers?
I would imagine this tank to contain some extremely advanced wiring.
How do you think they compensate for the gap of the tank? Zoom function according to size depth and feild of surrounding landscape.
It raises issues such as more advanced optics that would render this methodology obsolete.
Do you think they have opened up a new area of differential calculus here, i'd say there are more variables than Hollywood stars.
The response to such technology is a type of themral atom vision, that determines physical makeup of an object according to such, also instruments that measure photons on any given battlefield. Mini EMPs will probably do the trick here, OR, EMP zones hooked up on battlefields that determine movement, sound and high voltage uses UNLESS it operates on solar panels that are telescreens which means rainbow machines may need to be employed here.