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."
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.
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