U.S. Military Cloaking Tech?

[usarmy18]

Just read this article from Military.com

http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_060518_camo,,00.html?ESRC=soldiertech.nl

Is it just me, or does the photos provided in the article look photoshopped?

If this is a real, viable technology though, I think this would give the U.S. Military a much larger advantage over enemies in the field than we already have.

Thoughts?

 

[Erik Mesoy]

I think this is about as serious as the teleporter patent.

ie. one person tried to defy reality and they told it to someone who believed them to some extent.

 

[usarmy18]

Hmmm, it doesn't seem to be as ridiculous as that. I don't think the inventors could get away with extortion on the scale that they want to charge the military for each unit (up to 2,000 dollars per Infantryman, 47,000+ per armored vehicle). I think they would get in trouble over that. In testing, it's either going to be proved to be a miserable failure, or the next big battlefield tech.

 

[Kozmos]

Well that should make RTSes realistic. But I doubt its that good or that is able to hide from IR effectivly.

Though if it proves effective, it will be countered or copied very soon. Shield and Spear stuff.

 

[usarmy18]

Well that should make RTSes realistic. But I doubt its that good or that is able to hide from IR effectivly.

Though if it proves effective, it will be countered or copied very soon. Shield and Spear stuff.

No doubt about that. If this is real though, it would also aid Police units throughout the world. True, you get within twenty feet and it is useless, but I could see this being refined to the point where it is actually effective in UC. Think about planes. The first ones were little wood and canvas deals. We have planes that can fly into space now (competition a few years back or last year...or something). So I think it could become quite useful in a Law Enforcement role or UC role. Damn, just imagining an Armored Battalion outfitted with these things and the enemy not able to see them till they're right on top of them...I need to pinch myself and wake up.

 

[Ecclesiastes]

Its called "active camo" and its been around since the 60s, it was conceptualized in a book in 1949. The problem is not necessarily the distortion, its deciding what to camoflouge as. If im laying in a grass field how is it supposed to figure out to cloak my back as grass as opposed to as blue as the sky?

 

[Mise]

Its called "active camo" and its been around since the 60s, it was conceptualized in a book in 1949. The problem is not necessarily the distortion, its deciding what to camoflouge as. If im laying in a grass field how is it supposed to figure out to cloak my back as grass as opposed to as blue as the sky?

How does it work? Fibre-optics?

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Great, this means in the near future, next time we want to shoot up a third world country to secure its natural resources, we can send in the cloaked robot mech warriors, and then pat ourselves on the back about what brave fierce warriors we are

 

[Che Guava]

Hmmmm......the federation must have sent someone to the past to plant cloaking technology so we'll be ready for the Romulan wars in a few few centuries.....

 

[El_Machinae]

Those photos DO look extremely photoshopped. In a bad way.

 

[Xanikk999]

Those photos DO look extremely photoshopped. In a bad way.

They definitly do. I dont know why this website would post that.

In fact i dont even think they are affiliated with the real U.S military.

If the military was developing something like this it wouldnt be made public so soon.

 

[Elrohir]

Those photos DO look extremely photoshopped. In a bad way.

Agreed. It looks like they couldn't even afford a good image editing program. They might even have been forced to use a free online GFI editor.

I'm naturally skeptical. That would be pretty awesome, but I don't see something like that happening in the near future.

 

[Leonel]

This is a shop! I can tell from seeing some of the pixels and seeing quite a few shops in my day.

 

[Ecclesiastes]

This is a shop! I can tell from seeing some of the pixels and seeing quite a few shops in my day.

These pictures are probably shop, but active camo has been around for a while now, of course, still in its developing stages. Its been made public since about the eighties, but like I said it was conceptualized in 1949, so the world already knew of it. They just didnt know it was being developed.

As for how its works, the cloaked area is a thin sheet made of thousands of lasers, the lasers reflect off of the objects around you and the pixel of that area is pigmented that color. The problem is, if I lay down in a field, my back is to the sky........so my whole back will be bright blue.........while laying in a dead grass field.

 

[BirraImperial]

I think this is about as serious as the teleporter patent.

ie. one person tried to defy reality and they told it to someone who believed them to some extent.

this would be really cool...only if it was real.

 

[Esox]

Please tell me that article is a joke. Those pictures are worse that the one of Bigfoot skipping through the forest. Or "Nessie" in some guy's kitchen sink.

 

[Truronian]

I saw an episode of science shack that tried to do exactly this. They came to the conclusion that a mirror was the most effective method of camoflage when still! $47,000 mirrors sound like a rip-off to me.

I can't see how on earth technology like this would work so with an explaination I'm gonna go with fake. Maybe it was posted on April 1st...

 

[blackheart]

There is actually technology that allows you to "see-through" something, although the actual tech uses tiny cameras embedded onto something on all sides to project the images.

 

[7ronin]

If this is a real, viable technology though, I think this would give the U.S. Military a much larger advantage over enemies in the field than we already have.

Thoughts?

This is a highly classified program whose existence was illegally revealed to the public. Please turn yourself into the nearest military facility where you will be given repeated electro shocks until you no longer remember anything about this incident.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

ON that note about the teleporter, that we KNOW is impossible to do, thanks to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle