/ma "Invisible" <battleship>

[CmdrFly]

http://www.dailytech.com/Scientists...e+Working+on+Invisible+Ships/article10955.htm

Battleship would be invisible to the eye, radar, produce no heat signature and make no sound

Metamaterials refract light at a negative angle, rather than refracting light like normal materials that can be seen. The properties of metamaterials allow scientists to bend light around objects making them invisible to the naked eye. DailyTech reported on similar technology before when researchers at the University of Maryland were able to cloak a small 10 micrometer circle making it invisible to the eye.

While 10 micrometers is incredibly small, the scientists hope to one day scale the size of the cloak to hide people and objects. This is exactly what researchers at the Britannia Royal Navy College hope to do, but on a much grander scale. The scientist are developing a method to render full battleships invisible to not only the naked eye, but to radar as well. The researchers also hope to mask the sound produced by the ships as well as its heat signature.

 

[Excim]

Hmm... someone's been playing waaaaay too much MGS lately methinks.



That would really be some scary technology though.

 

[Uzor]

Yeah, they can currently fully cloak small objects, and rather well cloak larger objects, but only to one type of waves, such as infra-red, but not all types. The project itself started as a way to produce materials that could cloak important buildings or military camps, making them invisible, but also as an attempt to see if you could put it inside wearable armor too to make soldiers invisible. Although that could create a slight problem for allied soldiers as well, and will likely not happen. However, aircraft, buildings and ships is possible.

edit: one of the plans were to build the armor to make it possible to, for example, allow green and brown light to pass through it in forests, making soldiers harder to spot, like a more advanced camouflage.

 

[Keket]

That's well... it's just plain cool. Yet at the same time, kind of scary

 

[Tyrath]

Thats really cool and scary at the same time.

 

[Xalioniaf]

Pretty much sharing the same sentiments as everyone here. Pretty soon we'll be having invisible wars, but falling into the wrong hands this could be a bad end.

 

[RaidrX]

Hmm... someone's been playing waaaaay too much MGS lately methinks.

Aww, so basically they are just gonna put a REALLY BIG box over the ship, and then no one will know where it is.

 

[NandabaNaota]

Metamaterials refract light at a negative angle, rather than refracting light like normal materials that can be seen....

The description sounds slightly like prism powder...

That's kinda neat

 

[Uzor]

Yeah, due to the way its built with small glass tubes etc, it kind of works like a prism. A prism bends the light, so that its split up in the colors due to the different wavelengths of it. Due to the way this is built, it bends the light so that it basses around the object, and exits at the opposite side of the object. Thus, what you see is the light behind the object, and not the object itself.

 

[Sanoske]

Hmmm... Patrick Stewart approves.

 

[Spalko]

well with this kind of "Invisible" technology, another group gonna make something that can see that "Invisible" thing.

 

[Sapster]

10 micrometers is a very small battleship

 

[Arctyrael]

/ma "Invisible" CmdrFly

What do they propose to do with the high displacement of waves from a battle cruiser?

 

[Uzor]

/ma "Invisible" CmdrFly

What do they propose to do with the high displacement of waves from a battle cruiser?

Build a robotic head and call it Lochness

 

[Dayner]

i bet my camel still can small them out a miles away ;p

camel radar ftw