"Invisibility" cloaking on military vehicles, do you see it coming onto the field of battle anytime soon?

Asked by King_Pariah (11484

) September 27th, 2011

http://news.yahoo.com/video/science-15749654/invisibility-shield-may-soon-see-combat-26715832.html

At the arms fair in London, this was revealed, and apparently seems effective if the trials are to be trusted. do you see it coming out onto the arena of battle anytime soon? Personally I think not really, It’d really only be effective in wars fought between 1st world nations but could see it used to confuse SAM (surface to air missiles) for our helicopters especially.

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If it works right, no one will see it coming, and if I had such a thing, I would not advertize it

DrBill (16066

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It’s not invisible to the eye, it’s supposed to be invisible to electronic devices such as thermal vision.

King_Pariah (11484

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No.

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It would take years to proceed through additional research, testing, and development and with our economy the way it is, the Department of Defense would take a long time to acquire funding, if they could at all, and to get it to the different military branches and individual commands within those branches.

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