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Parth23 Jani
Posted: May 13, 2008 03:26 pmTop
   
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 Wow , just found this.
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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.

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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."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1811
 
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 Holy crap - Wooooo! Go England biggrin.gif
 
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 Yeah, when i saw it on james bond i had a feeling it would work.

But it would cost a heck of a lot, and when the tank's likely to be destroyed, that would waste a lot of money
 
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 I dont trust Daily mail but it looks cool and would suck if it was put into motion. The enemy will just use radar to locate it.
 
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 no fuckin way...
 
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 This is good for England but bad once everyone else gets their hands on it.
 
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QUOTE (General199 @ May 13, 2008 01:07 pm)
This is good for England but bad once everyone else gets their hands on it.

yer imagine u walking on the street and all of a sudden u get runed over by an invisible tank..that would suck
 
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 Yeah, I believe it.

I tihnk it has much more to it then what the article sais though.
And would only be used under VERY special circumstances.
 
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 Wouldn't the amount of noise those things make outweigh the whole invisibility aspect? I mean, I guess it masks the approach from afar, but when is the next time England is going to invade anyone?
 
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Parth23 Jani
Posted: May 13, 2008 08:31 pmTop
   
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 Two good points made there Angus hash.png
I cant really think of any uses of this but its cool.
 
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Posted: May 13, 2008 08:42 pmTop
   
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QUOTE (Parth23 Jani @ May 13, 2008 08:31 pm)
Two good points made there Angus hash.png
I cant really think of any uses of this but its cool.

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Wouldn't when the tank fires the cannon on its body, with the vibrations flowing through the tank disable the system anyway?
 
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Posted: May 13, 2008 10:21 pmTop
   
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 so how is it gonna hide muzzle flash?
 
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Posted: May 13, 2008 10:40 pmTop
   
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QUOTE (Kiwi011 @ May 13, 2008 10:21 pm)
so how is it gonna hide muzzle flash?

Invisible Shells?
 
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Posted: May 14, 2008 12:16 amTop
   
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QUOTE (Yingyang06 @ May 13, 2008 05:00 pm)
I dont trust Daily mail but it looks cool and would suck if it was put into motion. The enemy will just use radar to locate it.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a hoax.

The thought of an invisible tank is nice and all, but what happens when you can 'sort-of' see an invisible tank but you can't tell wether its yours or not? plus realistically this only stops people from shooting them and not other tanks/vehicles/aircraft which almost all will be equipped with digital sights of some sort that will see stright through projections (Due to the fact that a tank has a massive heat signature from the large engines they have, as well as their rather large magnetic signature.).

I cant see them wasting time on a technology that I doubt would work.

 
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Posted: May 14, 2008 12:20 amTop
   
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QUOTE (Theevildead2 @ May 14, 2008 12:16 am)
QUOTE (Yingyang06 @ May 13, 2008 05:00 pm)
I dont trust Daily mail but it looks cool and would suck if it was put into motion. The enemy will just use radar to locate it.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a hoax.

The thought of an invisible tank is nice and all, but what happens when you can 'sort-of' see an invisible tank but you can't tell wether its yours or not? plus realistically this only stops people from shooting them and not other tanks/vehicles/aircraft which almost all will be equipped with digital sights of some sort that will see stright through projections (Due to the fact that a tank has a massive heat signature from the large engines they have, as well as their rather large magnetic signature.).

I cant see them wasting time on a technology that I doubt would work.

I agree, but maybe this is one step towards a completely invisble and stealth tank.. You can do it with planes and boats, why not tanks or cars? hash.png

What i find funny is that its in the Daily mail but you cannot find it in the Sun, The EADT (East-Anglian Daily times), The Sunderland Metro, The Guardian or any other up to date news papers.
 
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QUOTE (Alakadavi @ May 13, 2008 10:51 am)
QUOTE (General199 @ May 13, 2008 01:07 pm)
This is good for England but bad once everyone else gets their hands on it.

yer imagine u walking on the street and all of a sudden u get runed over by an invisible tank..that would suck

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Oh, and yeh, it's pretty impractical for a lot of reasons...
 
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