Invisible tanks!

[Queasy]

Link - I imagine it is invisible right up to the point they turn the engine on or fire the gun.

Now they just need to make a hover tank.

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."

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I bet it still puts out a healthy IR signature

 

[purbeast0]

wow that is freaking awesome.

someone find a video of this demo, stat!

 

[mobobuff]

Wrap it in a big OLED sheet. But that would probably be more practical for stealth camo.

 

[AMCRambler]

That pic looks photoshopped. This is supposedly secret army testing done just last week and these guys supposedly found out about? I dunno man. I'm having trouble believing this. Is this Daily Mail paper a reliable news source? Or is it like the the Enquirer here in the US? Maybe they're working on something like this, but I doubt it would have gotten out.

Edit: Ah it is photoshopped. "How the tank might look..."

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

looks like BS

 

[thescreensavers]

lol, this is gana be funny, if they shoot the tank, and a projector breaks or malfunctions and half the tanks there..

 

[Vonkhan]

invisible tank, i haz it!

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
lol, this is gana be funny, if they shoot the tank, and a projector breaks or malfunctions and half the tanks there..

I'd use it to project tanks onto the sides of the opposition's buildings

*BAM*
"Got hi... oh shi..."
"You destroyed our church, you team killing fu**tard"

 

[Cuda1447]

Imagine if Canada's tank was invisible.... oh the damage it could do!

 

[Cuda1447]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
lol, this is gana be funny, if they shoot the tank, and a projector breaks or malfunctions and half the tanks there..

I'd use it to project tanks onto the sides of the opposition's buildings

*BAM*
"Got hi... oh shi..."
"You destroyed our church, you team killing fu**tard"

ROFL!