Invisible to who exactly? Slightly hard for people to spot is hardly the same as 'easily spotted by tank destroying missile', it's all a totally pointless arms race. Where do they plan to use this equipment? 10,000 of them in Afghanistan would be of nofuckinusewhatsoever, the Taliban have their own cloaking device, it's called soldier one second, goat farmer the next. After watching that Afghanistan Conmmando series, which has to be the ultimate fly-on-the-wall battlefield program it's rather obvious all ground troops are just bait so the airpower can go fishin.
Myself I'm interested in the "beamed onto" bit. "coated with silicon" is another funky one. Silicon is more or less glass. it can't be sheet silicon so it is probably glass beads. Kind of like a movie screen.
What I am suspecting what actually happened is they covered the tank with what is effectively movie screen paint and then did a slide show on it. In the day time of course because if they did it at night it would glow like a drive in movie.
To paraphrase a fine british actor: SCAM, SCAM, SCAM, SCAM, SCAM, SCAM!
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CB @ Oct 31st 2007 7:02AM
Invisible to who exactly?
Slightly hard for people to spot is hardly the same as 'easily spotted by tank destroying missile', it's all a totally pointless arms race.
Where do they plan to use this equipment? 10,000 of them in Afghanistan would be of nofuckinusewhatsoever, the Taliban have their own cloaking device, it's called soldier one second, goat farmer the next.
After watching that Afghanistan Conmmando series, which has to be the ultimate fly-on-the-wall battlefield program it's rather obvious all ground troops are just bait so the airpower can go fishin.
bombastinator @ Oct 31st 2007 4:22PM
Myself I'm interested in the "beamed onto" bit.
"coated with silicon" is another funky one. Silicon is more or less glass. it can't be sheet silicon so it is probably glass beads. Kind of like a movie screen.
What I am suspecting what actually happened is they covered the tank with what is effectively movie screen paint and then did a slide show on it. In the day time of course because if they did it at night it would glow like a drive in movie.
To paraphrase a fine british actor: SCAM, SCAM, SCAM, SCAM, SCAM, SCAM!