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Military and IT Article Post Date 11 1st, 2007
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British Military Invisible Tank

British Military Invent Method to Create Invisible Tank

M1A2 Invisible Army Tank

British defense researchers have invented a means to cloak tanks and make them invisible tank. London’s Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Sun all report on tests conducted by the Ministry of Defence last week in which a tank rolled across a field, completely invisible to observers standing at a certain point.

“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.”

Invisible Cloaking of a TankAlthough as you first heard this topic, it is not as mystical as it might seem. The technology relies on heavy use of camera and projectors. Basically, a camera films the background, which is then projected upon a special surface applied to something in the foreground in this case, a tank.

You can see the similar technology in the following video that has gained a lot of popularity on the internet

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:

“Cloak of invisibility is theoretically 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.”

Tank Invisibility Technology


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    nice tank

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    10 years ago iwas in the 89 signal squadron we were introduced to what was at the time a top secret project using micro waves around the tank to send light through what you might call path ways all but bending the light this gave the tank a transparent look best way to discribe it was the old arnie film preditor you only saw it when it moved very impressive remember folks this was 10 years ago! you might be sat next to a tank right now!!

    steve

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    That is something I always think about when “new” military technology is exposed or released. That this technology is old and no longer considered top secret, so we can only image what is currently available and what are the new experiments.

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    hey man i thinks theres one of those invisible tanks, outside my house ready to kick ass!

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