Infrared Cloaking System Makes Tanks Completely Disappear

Nice...

I'd like to see the personnel jacket in this design.

Anti-tank missiles can also make tanks disappear.

Cool. But does it work from just one viewpoint?

Don't know the answer to your Q, within the context in which you are asking it, but...

On a recent episode of Through the Wormhole (Morgan Freeman), it was stated that some very prominent scientists have found evidence that "truly", when you shut your eyes, everything around you ceases to exist. {Yes, I am certain that I heard it correctly} The hypothesis is that NOTHING exists unless a sentient being senses it.

Personally, I agree with my uncle's take on that. Walk up to one of these "prominent scientists" and say "close your eyes"... then slug 'im on his nose, and say "See! I still exist!"

How long before someone here creates a new industry ("U-Lose-em-We-Find-em") for locating LOST 'cloaked entities'...?

The old tree in the forest argument. Somehow, I think the earth was here before anybody was looking at it.

Now we can go back to the good old days when wars were only fought during daylight.

... reminds me of the fantasy/legend of PX.

Did Infrared Cloaking make all the money in the global economy disappear too? It can't have been an anti-tank missile; someone would have said....

In WWII North Africa, Jasper Maskalin built canvas covers to make tanks look like trucks, trucks to look like tanks, and rows of Jerry cans to look like pipelines. He also created an entire battle group in England (better than just a tank!) using bogus radio chatter and a bunch of trucks driving all over the island. In the battle of the Angle, whole artillery batteries were created which consisted of fence posts and wagon wheels, with the occasional real field piece in there just to provide vermilisitude. I think the biggest thing that Jasper ever did, come to think of it, was to move the port of Tobruk down the beach every night (with fake street lights), then back in the morning with all sorts of "new" bomb damage, in actual fact the bomb damage was painted canvas. The French and Belgian resistance placed dinner plates upside down in the road south to D-Day, and placed an anti tank mine under every 50th one. And an anti-personnel mine under every 20th one. Slowed up the advance on D-Day by two days! IED's set off with cell phones (or even trip wires!) seem to be winning the war, even in the face of overwhelming technological superiority.

So there is nothing new here...except perhaps for the naive idea that a technological solution will "provide the answer". The reality is that all warfare is a battle of hearts and minds first, technology second. The simplest form of the battle of hearts and minds is to convince the "enemy" to lose hope of victory. Can this be done by making him think a tank is a cow?

And people will pay big bucks for this! Money provided by frightened tax payers will be spent on this! How childish! Spend the money on espionage, boots on the ground, schools, hospitals, bridges and clinics. Get a ROI.

Wierd; big minds think alike I' had thought of the same thing but for daytime, using optic fibers with both ends at opposed sides of the vehicle.

I suppose they can make a hybrid of both?