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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

BAE invisibility cloak hides vehicles as scenery, cars and cows


British defence company BAE Systems has developed an "invisibility cloak" that can effectively hide vehicles from view in the infra-red spectrum.

The patented system -- called Adaptiv -- uses a matrix of hexagonal "pixels" that can change their temperature very rapidly. On-board cameras sweep the area to pick up the background scenery and display that infra-red signature on the vehicle.

This allows even moving tanks to be effectively invisible in the infra-red spectrum, or mimic other objects. "The tank skin essentially becomes a big infra red TV," BAE Head of External Communications Mike Sweeney told Wired.co.uk. "You can display anything you want on it -- including a cow -- while the rest of the vehicle blends into the background."

Read More: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/05/bae-invisibility-cloak

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