Invisible tank

GertBeef

Apparently the English have invented an invisible tank to complement James Bond's invisible car.

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In secret trials last week, the army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.

There is even a picture of the tank.


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22689812-2,00.html

What would you kill with an invisible tank?

What else would you like to see become invisible with this technology? I'd like to see invisible clothes. Maybe James could make his underpants invisible. :V

Lucky Cynic

Now you see it ... what the tank might look like in action in the Afghan mountains.

ArcticXC

Look again...

Goomba

Take a red-hot look at yourself and stop shitting all over the internet.

Kazhiim

I SEE

Brolo

See, the problem is that very few things designed to blow tanks up are looking for them by visual recognition alone. Infrared, radar and laser-guidance are going to be pretty difficult to hide, especially on a vehicile that weighs several tonnes, and leaves gigantic treadmarks and dust plumes behind it as it drives.

syndalis

This would be FAR better for fixed surface to air missile batteries and (if it could be shrunken down enough) combat armor.

I would LOVE to see the British Ninja Brigade.

Cervetus

I remember seeing something similar to this years ago, about a Japanese guy who used cameras and projectors to make himself invisible. Obviously it looked kinda shoddy, but it was still really cool.

mastman

Invisible tanks are worthless unless you have air superiority. As stated already, tanks are gigantic ovens and the things which blow them up track their heat signature.

However, once you have air superiority and can prevent such plinking by jets, an invisible tank plowing through your enemies infantry would be pretty awesome.

FightTest

When you see it you'll shit bricks.

Stormwatcher

I like invisible cheezburguers better.

Lowlander

The problem with laser guided, camera guided and infrared missiles is that they require somebody to launch the weapon, and in the instance of laser and camera guided weapons they have to continuously paint the target until the weapon strikes. Your dismissal of this technology is unwarranted. If a tank can get into range for it's cannon, which is going to be a lot farther out than you're going to be able to hear, that's all it needs.

I imagine this wouldn't work very well at night, where there would be people scanning the horizon with IR goggles, but during the day it would at least give a tank the ability to choose when and where to engage before anybody could do anything about it.

ben0207

Man, if GDI get this NOD will have to get something way cool next patch.

jlrx

As it goes

Kane lives in death, so this tech is far behind the beloved stealth.