VISIBLE & INFRARED EVASION

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New means have been developed to conceal machines from infrared detection. An example would be the a new technology named Adaptic, developed partly for the Swedish government. This technology involves giant pixels, which when pasted onto tanks, can now sense the general pattern of infrared energy, or heat, distributed around a dense forest or stone desert and camouflage the vehicle accordingly, making the tanks undetectable from infrared.

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Furthermore, the potential of such stealth cloaking has often been limited due to costs and technical problem. However, tests have shown that this technology not only adapts quickly, but uses relatively little energy, and can serve as armour as well. It can make a tank go invisible or at least, look like a normal 4x4 vehicle, from an infrared scanner’s perspective. The company’s engineers are looking at going a step further, by adapting the technology to cloaking vehicles from visibility as well.



​WHAT REALLY CONSTITUTES AS MODERN DAY STEALTH​

The concept of stealth by this definition and age of time, has developed to include a level of sophistication, that evasion tactics can now spawn electronic counter-measures. Gone were the days when the idea of stealth was merely to break the contours of a military asset, so that electromagnetic waves can be distorted to deceive hostile radar systems. Stealth today can pertain to:

Shape change to break the contours, or to use specific contours to deter reflection of electromagnetic waves;
Surface composition of the materials used for the military asset, that can absorb or distort electromagnetic waves, e.g., special chemical treatment on an aircraft’s hull can permit the absorption of such waves, or chemically treatment the uniform of soldiers to reduce infrared signature;
The design of stealth machines no longer emanate from a traditional linear progression of product design, i.e., design of product that delivers the greatest military power, and then think of ways to make it stealth.