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Offline jr2

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Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
www.theblaze.com/stories/claim-secret-camo-can-make-american-solders-truly-invisible-the-photos-will-blow-your-mind/

CNN did a piece on this (link inside)...

Thoughts? It appears to be fully functional cloaking for visible / infrared light.



The Pentagon is betting big on a real life invisibility cloak for American soldiers, according to recent reports.

Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp, a Canadian company known for its innovative camo technology, is attempting to revolutionize the battlefield by providing true invisibility for soldiers. The special material being used is know as Quantum Stealth. The pictures posted on the company’s website of the fabric, which apparently bends light to create the effect, look as though they are straight out of a Harry Potter movie:


http://www.hyperstealth.com
 


http://www.hyperstealth.com
 


http://www.hyperstealth.com
 

There is no video yet of the technology in action since its development is considered highly secretive. However, Guy Cramer, CEO of Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp, told the Daily Mail that top military brass in the U.S. and Canada have seen it in action, and were amazed:

“These groups now know that it works and does so without cameras, batteries, lights or mirrors…It is lightweight and quite inexpensive. Both the U.S. and Canadian military have confirmed that it also works against military IR scopes and Thermal Optics.”
In the same interview, Cramer imagines a group of battle tanks decked out with Quantum Stealth camouflage that could engage an enemy unit with no signs of their location except the sound of their engines and guns.

“As news spreads of an invisible Canadian army which can move without detection, the psychological effect on the enemy is devastating, they never know when or even if this invisible army has them targeted or surrounded. How can you hit a target you cannot see, how do you defend from the invisible?”
In a recent CNN interview, Cramer said you would literally have to “walk right into” a solder wearing the cloak in the same room as you to know he was there.  ”You wouldn’t see him at all” Cramer claims.

The army spent $5 billion in an underwhelming and under-performing camouflage pattern eight years ago and is now shopping for new contracts.

Watch the CNN Report below:


 

Offline redsniper

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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
STEALTH CAMOUFLAGE?!
Otacon, what the hell is going on here?
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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
Metamaterials stealth has been in the cards for so long I'd call it practically inevitable. This is just the next logical step in the last 5/10 years of headlines on the topic.

also

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As news spreads of an invisible Canadian army which can move without detection

As far as I can tell Canada already has this capability

 
Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
God, I hope we don't get a news article in the next few months about working nanomachines or better-than-human cybernetic augmentations.  Between this and that Japanese metal gear prototype the future is looking grim.
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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
Grim?  I think you mean awesome.  I want me some Ghost in the Shell.

 

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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
Such blatant violations of the treaty of Algeron...

 
Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
Grim?  I think you mean awesome.  I want me some Ghost in the Shell.
It is awesome, aside from the stuff that isn't awesome like brain hacking, an American Empire, and the usual slew of cyberpunk plots and conspiracies.  I don't want my memories replaced or altered or my body used as a puppet sock by a rogue hacker.

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17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

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[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
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[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

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[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems

 

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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?

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As news spreads of an invisible Canadian army which can move without detection

As far as I can tell Canada already has this capability

 :lol:

Although this reminds me of Ghost Recon Future Soldier with their armour
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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
Looks fake.

  

Offline Luis Dias

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Looks shopped. I can tell from seein somm of da pixals and seein quite da few shops in my time.

(Seriously, bending light doesn't work that well as far as I am aware of all the metamaterial research I've been seing for the past 5 years)



These are clearly concept pics, not actual devices working. Where are the photons that are shown in the "cape" coming from? Not beneath / behind it, that's for sure.
« Last Edit: December 14, 2012, 05:31:15 am by Luis Dias »

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
Yeah all the metamaterials stuff I've followed is currently limited to really tiny things.

 

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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
<assuming tge story is a fake and not just a victim of sensitive photos being replaced with 'shopped ones>

Quick, someone tell CNN before they cover this hoax as an actual story!... Oh, snap, wait a second... :lol:

 

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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
after reading this/looking at the pics i wondered if the blaze was like the same thing as the onion.
I like to stare at the sun.

 
Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
...The pictures posted on the company’s website of the fabric, which apparently bends light to create the effect, look as though they are straight out of a Harry Potter movie...
Wouldn't a Lord of the Rings reference be more fitting, since Frodo actually had a cloak of invisibility?

 

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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
Harry Potter also had a cloak of invisibility...
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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
...The pictures posted on the company’s website of the fabric, which apparently bends light to create the effect, look as though they are straight out of a Harry Potter movie...
Wouldn't a Lord of the Rings reference be more fitting, since Frodo actually had a cloak of invisibility?

None of them had invisibility cloaks. The elven cloaks were just very, very effective at concealing their users. Derailment aside, carry on...
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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
Psst... you didnt know? The Elves invented digital camouflage.

 
Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
after reading this/looking at the pics i wondered if the blaze was like the same thing as the onion.

The Blaze is Glenn Beck's media company and the name of the company's flagship website.  I trust your ability to determine where the similarities and differences between The Blaze and The Onion lie.

 

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sorry, but i don't ride the 'bash fox news' bandwagon.
I like to stare at the sun.

 

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Re: Functioning visible / infrared cloaking?
Sounds weird, but it looks too good, looking at the photos from the CNN reports, it looks like the stills have been doctored to make the camouflage seem more effective than it currently is.