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Offline trax1

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British invisible tank
« on: April 23, 2008, 11:21:50 PM »
This story came out late last year but I just found it, apparently the British have developed technology that allows a tank to seem invisible, it use cameras & projectors to put the image of whats behind the tank in front of it, you can read about it here.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306678,00.html
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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2008, 11:55:34 PM »
I remember seeing a show about how during ww11 they mounted bright lights on the leading edge's of aircraft so they appeared to be invisible form a distance this let the plane get close enough to attack German submarines with out them the Subs would see the aircraft & would dive before the plane could mount an attack. They then took a tank covered it in lights & with a flick of switch from a certain distance the tank appeared then dissapeared.
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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2008, 12:27:47 AM »
I'm scared of the Brits now  :noid
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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2008, 12:49:53 AM »
     Infrared  :aok
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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2008, 12:51:09 AM »
Quote from: EskimoJoe on April 24, 2008, 12:27:47 AM
I'm scared of the Brits now  :noid

you better be! <shakes fist>
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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2008, 01:06:57 AM »
Lazs is right!..ghosts do exist
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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2008, 09:53:07 AM »
If the Brit tank is dealing with pirates, it WILL be invisible. It will be somewhere else.......




































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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2008, 11:17:13 AM »
What is needed is to be able to place small lenses on the ends of optical fibers wiht a visible light amplifier in between that will project the view light thru the fibers to the other side of the object. You must have equal numbers of optical fibers on each side, one input..one output to have a complete coverage. A mesh will be developed if not already
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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2008, 11:19:15 AM »
Are they going to hire micheal moore to do their films  :rofl
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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2008, 01:49:10 PM »
From what i understand it also comes with a huge price tag.
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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2008, 01:49:52 PM »
That was awesome! Did you see that photo? Wow ~ totally impressive. =) Loved reading that.
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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2008, 01:54:05 PM »
Quote from: texasmom on April 24, 2008, 01:49:52 PM
That was awesome! Did you see that photo? Wow ~ totally impressive. =) Loved reading that.

Photo was a mock up ;)
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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2008, 01:55:24 PM »
Quote from: Furball on April 24, 2008, 01:54:05 PM
Photo was a mock up ;)
Awe bummer.  :(
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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #13 on: April 24, 2008, 01:59:16 PM »
Quote from: texasmom on April 24, 2008, 01:55:24 PM
Awe bummer.  :(


Hate to see ya disappointed, here is a real picture of the stealth tank being tested.

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Re: British invisible tank
« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2008, 02:00:03 PM »
I remember seing a documentary about that when I was still in France ... 10 years ago  :)
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