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Clearly one of the advantages of warfare is the ability to escape the detection by your enemies. So, imagine a new technology that disguises tanks from detection by infrared sensors. It actually exists. USGIF member company BAE Systems has developed its ADAPTIV camouflage system, which is essentially a sheet of hexagonal “pixels” that covers the side of a tank. This sheet blocks out any heat, allowing tanks to go undetected by an enemy wearing night vision goggles, anti-tank missile launchers or strike planes. Check out this video from BAE Systems that shows you how a tank can disappear, literally, from infrared detection.

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