The invisible Army tank
November 1st, 2007 at 6:47 am . by nukeHow about this?
The UK Daily Mail is reporting that the Army has begun tests have on a new tank, an Invisible one. Here is a picture of it.
Nice, isn’t it? What’s that? You can’t see it?
Well, that’s because it’s invisible……
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.
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.”
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I want one!
/make mine a ‘vette