Stealth Tank

Well, the days of seeing the tank before it kills you may be coming to an end.  Lots of work is being done in cloaking and stealth systems, but a new product by BAE is succeeded in making a tank completely invisible…to Infrared detection.

Now, while you may say that it’s not a big deal, lots of weapons and tracking systems use IR detection. We were already pretty good at camoflouge so finding stuff in the visible light spectrum has already become difficult. Hiding from sensors is the tricky part.

The stealth fighter/bomber was a big deal in hiding from radar. But infrared detection was one of it’s biggest weaknesses. It’s signature is limited, but not invisible. Combine this tech, with tradition stealth, and should the research into metamaterials pan out, and we might have true cloaks.

So, before to long, it won’t just be ninja’s we have to worry about being invisible.