Invisible Tank

[Catharsis]

Yeah, but that's just another chunk of the EM spectrum, so if you can make something (effectively) transparent in the visible light spectrum, transparency in the infrared spectrum shouldn't be too much of a stretch, I'd think.

Makes sense.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Cool, Stealth Tanks.
Soon the brits can sneak behind enemy lines and desroy the power plants before the main army attacks.

 

[dosed150]

Cool, Stealth Tanks.
Soon the brits can sneak behind enemy lines and desroy the power plants before the main army attacks.

isnt that what special forces are for

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I can't see it being a success.

I like the way James Bond hid behind his invisible car in that movie.

 

[m4gill4]

So they put the soldiers witnessing this in the exact spot they would have to be to not see the tank. Had they been elsewhere, they would see the tank.

It's a cool idea, but nowhere near anything that could be effectively used on the battlefield.

I suppose you could turn on this feature when "charging" enemy troops, but is much "charging" done on the battlefield anymore?

It would still be very useful in concealing troop movements from "static" (i.e. unmoving) targets such as entrenched enemies, bunkers, artillery/target finders.

Also, even if the tank can only remain invisible to one point at a time, perhaps they could move that point, thereby concealing themselves from airborne / satellite reconnaissance as well.

 

[Mise]

Cool, Stealth Tanks.
Soon the brits can sneak behind enemy lines and desroy the power plants before the main army attacks.

You mean like Tanya?

 

[LightFang]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=490669&in_page_id=1811

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.

he 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."

Discuss how awesomely cool this is.

 

[Miles Teg]

It's so awesomely cool theirs already a thread!http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=249368

 

[LightFang]

It fell off the first page!

 

[GoodSarmatian]

You mean like Tanya?

Yes, but I was referring to C&C 3. Commandos and Shadow Teams are too slow, die too fast and are helpess against most vehicles. I prefer Stealth Tanks.

 

[sourboy]

This may be new to the British, but it's not new technology.

I saw a detailed documentary on this in around 1997 on a science channel. The US has a method of dousing anything in a liquid that reflects light. They demonstrated it and basically all you could see was a "shimmer" like... steam vapor on a hot day, or that Predator movie. They drove an APC up, and though you could hear it, you couldn't see it until it was like 20 yards away.

Cool stuff.

Another thing on that show that I recall, was a liquid that would make wood (oak) as brittle as glass in seconds. The idea was to use it in a raid in a "waco" type situation. Use the invisible APC to get close, then hose the door, shatter it, and drop a gas bomb that knocks everyone out within 2 seconds. The demonstration was impressive.

 

[BirraImperial]

Cool, I wonder if they can make invisible suits. It would be awesome to walk around undetected!

 

[sourboy]

Cool, I wonder if they can make invisible suits. It would be awesome to walk around undetected!

yes, they already have it...

 

[Swedishguy]

We could use this technology to do something good to humanity, instead we choose to use it on a tank!

 

[bigdog5994]

We could use this technology to do something good to humanity, instead we choose to use it on a tank!

like what?

 

[Leonel]

I'll believe it when I see it!

... or NOT see it! Hurhurhur!

 

[stormbind]

I remember discussing this in the 1990s

My guess is its an old idea that is being slowly developed and when enough people have forgotten, its news again!

 

[Yuri2356]

I remember discussing this in the 1990s

My guess is its an old idea that is being slowly developed and when enough people have forgotten, its news again!

Or when ey make a notable leep in progress when implimenting the technology...


It's one thing to compose the idea behind this (cameras + projectors = camauflage!) it's a whole other deal to build an economic and reliable implimentation of it.

 

[Integral]

Wait, so not only will we have Gundams, we will have invisible gundams?

The 'cool' factor here trumps any military, technological, or logistical deficiency.

 

[Japanrocks12]

*yawn*. something space-related plz?