The Army of the Future

[Defender2516]

It has been announced in October this year that Britian who won't give away to much details (for good reason of course), have created a invisible tank.

 

 

 

To the human eye, its naked with with the help of some video camera's and computers. Britian still isn't fully satisfied with the work, but plan on producing them in 2012.

 

 

 

USA hasn't back down on cloaking either and steadily working hard to make cloaking soldiers.

 

 

 

All in all, if we had a world war 3 somewhere down the road, it certainly beats the smack out of WW2.

 

 

 

More details here.

 

 

 

http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisible-tank.htm

 

 

 

Battlefield 2142 anyone? (expect 100 years earlier? lol!)

[GordanFreeman]

I believe they've said they can do this for a while, it's just a matter of not having the materials to be able to. It's something like a whole bunch of really small mirrors all over something, that would "cloak" it. Seems like a great idea, it'd just be really expensive, and it'd be really time-consuming to make...I'm guessing they couldn't be mass produced.

[Defender2516]

Maybe, but they won't know till they keep working at it and whoever gets the "mass cloak army first" will probably put it to good use!

[Abelmisi]

Moved to Off-Topic.

[Mercifull]

Clever... but with war these days being more about guerilla fighting, suicide bombing and IEDs is there really a need for an "invisible" tank on the battlefield?

[Zonorhc]

You'd still hear the engines, smell the fuel and exhaust, see the tracks on the ground...

 

 

 

And it'll be expensive.

[NorthernHero]

It's nice little trick. But nothing groundbreaking. I wouldn't call it to be anything near invicible. The idea is that there is a picture of bacground is shooted to the object what is wanted to be invicible. This wouldn't work on real time. It would require too much 'hassle', like seperate cameramans and its hard to do it when the object is moving or the wiever is not in the exact point.

[RebelAssassin]

it wont be 100% invisible, just hard to spot out of ear shot and from air

[Bloodredsword]

If it does work, all you'll be able to see a blurr, or hear the tank.

 

 

 

Thats pretty darn cool. That sucks that the only way it would work for mass producing would be to find a cheap mirror source.

[indy500fan]

It's nice little trick. But nothing groundbreaking. I wouldn't call it to be anything near invicible. The idea is that there is a picture of bacground is shooted to the object what is wanted to be invicible. This wouldn't work on real time. It would require too much 'hassle', like seperate cameramans and its hard to do it when the object is moving or the wiever is not in the exact point.

 

 

 

invincible != invisible.

[sebbeberg]

It won't work, trust me. It would cost too much, and not very suitable for combat.

 

More like a recon unit.

[Barihawk]

It's called Adaptive Camoflauge and it's been around for almost 15 years now.

[Nom]

Check this out. Stuff like this has been going on since WWII, and this is a lot more interesting.

[Mercifull]

Check this out. Stuff like this has been going on since WWII, and this is a lot more interesting.

*hands out the tin foil hats*

[mchainmail]

"While I do not know with what weapons world war 3 will be fought with, world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones"

 

 

 

Albert Einstein.

 

 

 

This seems like a classic example of the military-industrial complex siphoning funds away from practical ventures to frivolous wastes of money. Does anyone remember Reagan's "Star Wars" program?

[BlueLancer]

Check this out. Stuff like this has been going on since WWII, and this is a lot more interesting.

 

 

 

And like UFO's, has largely been considered a hoax... 8-)

[Nom]

Check this out. Stuff like this has been going on since WWII, and this is a lot more interesting.

 

 

 

And like UFO's, has largely been considered a hoax... 8-)

 

 

 

I consider this a lot more credible than UFO's. For one, I've read Moore's book, and it offers some interesting evidence that can't just be tossed out the window. And it goes off on a tangent about the Biefeld-Brown Effect, which is most definitely not a hoax. Not saying that I am totally convinced in a govenment conspiracy (I'm not highlanders :P ), but the Philadelphia Experiment is still a very intriguing peice of history.

[assassin_696]

They wouldn't be properly invisible, just hard to see. And tanks aren't exactly the quietest of beasts either.

 

 

 

Still, easy to scare any threatening superpower, just give them a picture of some empty fields and assure them they are swarming with tanks.

[Barihawk]

"While I do not know with what weapons world war 3 will be fought with, world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones"

 

 

 

Albert Einstein.

 

 

 

This seems like a classic example of the military-industrial complex siphoning funds away from practical ventures to frivolous wastes of money. Does anyone remember Reagan's "Star Wars" program?

 

 

 

Star Wars was not a waste in it's day. You probably didn't have the benefit of being born and raised at the height of the Cold War, but even a four year old like me was scared stiff of nuclear Armageddon.

 

 

 

The American people were behind Star Wars and STI research. It's just that the Cold War ended before the project was completed, and the government cancelled the project as it wasn't needed.

[Lenin64]

We'll all be fighting with infrared in the future anyways, so this is obsolete. And expensive.

[Mercifull]

They wouldn't be properly invisible, just hard to see. And tanks aren't exactly the quietest of beasts either.

 

 

 

Still, easy to scare any threatening superpower, just give them a picture of some empty fields and assure them they are swarming with tanks.

 

 

 

The possibility is a deterrent as it is. Its just like TV detector Vans. There are no such thing they just have a database of addresses and crosstab it by another database of people who have not renewed a TV license and visit the property. There is no detector machine.

[underu2000]

I call hax.

 

 

 

It may be a unnecessary research area, but hey, it's something that's never been done before. It's not so interesting that there's an invisible tank, but an invisible something of that size. I mean, you'd expect them to work progressively, starting with a small metal sheet or something. But instead they go ahead and make a whole damn tank invisible. That's something else.

 

 

 

Truly invisible or not, it's still cool. I call dibs on the first invisible Hummer.

[Defender2516]

Inspite just being invisible to the enemy, it gives you a great tactical advantage.

 

 

 

One day you think your forces can take on a few American troops, the next, they had no idea they ended up in a blitzkreig.

[Lenin64]

I call hax.

 

 

 

It may be a unnecessary research area, but hey, it's something that's never been done before. It's not so interesting that there's an invisible tank, but an invisible something of that size. I mean, you'd expect them to work progressively, starting with a small metal sheet or something. But instead they go ahead and make a whole damn tank invisible. That's something else.

 

 

 

Truly invisible or not, it's still cool. I call dibs on the first invisible Hummer.

 

Actually, they did start with a strand of copper wire. I read about it last year i think.