New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.
In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.
The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank.
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Now you see it: How the tank might look with background images beamed onto the side
The result is that anyone looking in the direction of the vehicle only sees what is beyond it and not the tank itself.
A soldier, who was at the trials, said: "This technology is incredible. If I hadn't been present I wouldn't have believed it. I looked across the fields and just saw grass and trees - but in reality I was staring down the barrel of a tank gun."
Breakthrough: The MoD's 'Q', Professor Sir John Pendry
How the technology works in a combat situation is very sensitive, but the MoD is believed to be testing a military jacket that works on the same principles.
It is the type of innovation normally associated with James Bond, and the brains behind the latest technology is the MoD's very own "Q" - Professor Sir John Pendry, of Imperial College London.
He said the only drawback was the reliability of the cameras and projectors.
But he added: "The next stage is to make the tank invisible without them - which is intricate and complicated, but possible.
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and wars have gotten another degree scarier!!
This tank does does not exist.
The headline contains the words "James Bond". I assume because it seen as manly to blow up small villages etc. This is in fact a lie sponsored by the arms industry, and I take issue with the words "James Bond" in any headline what-so-ever.
OH wow, next thing you'll see is invisible soldiers lol.
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where do they put the cameras and projectors?
Do they need cameras and projectors to project the background onto the cameras and projectors?
What if the enemy projects tanks onto the projections of the background?
project... nice word.
I seem to have a Freudian problem with feminine men
"They think I come to bring them a panacea, instead I bring them the plague." Sigmund Freud
Bullshit, also i have a diesel motor modified to run with water on my backyard.
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Was this the same story that was reported on Have I Got News for You a couple of months ago?
Its all true! but they lost it just after the test they came back and couldnt find it again! mermaid man and barnacle boy all over again
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