What are the seven "invisibility cloaks" of a stealth tank?

The first is the "super plant blanket". As we all know, natural plant camouflage has extremely strong capabilities in dealing with visible light and near-infrared reconnaissance. However, felled vegetation used for tank camouflage has a very different image on an infrared imager than growing natural vegetation and is easily distinguishable.

As a result, people envision using biotechnology to create a "super plant blanket": a special "plant blanket" is added with a nutrient for plant growth, which gradually decomposes during use and is absorbed by the plants. The seeds of the plant are woven into the blanket. As long as there are certain external conditions, the seeds will grow rapidly in a short time and remain unchanged for a long time after they grow.

At the same time, there are many types of plant leaf shapes, colors, and spots formed on the blanket after they grow, which can be selected for use in different regions.

The second is color-changing biological paint. Through genetic engineering, color-changing genes can be transplanted into super plants, so that these plants can change color and automatically adapt to changes in the surrounding background.

In addition, through cell engineering, simple algae organisms that can reproduce in large quantities and quickly can be cultivated, colonized in a viscous nutrient solution, and mixed with ultrafine metal powder and other electromagnetic wave absorbing materials to create new organisms. Paint, sprayed on the tank.

The third is smart camouflage clothing. Intelligent camouflage is an automatic camouflage camouflage system based on small-spot camouflage, with computer automatically designing patterns, color matching and drawing.

The small-spot camouflage is compared to the current large-spot camouflage of tanks. The large-spot camouflage is only suitable for specific targets or environments, and cannot be used for multiple purposes. But for tanks, the combat environment may be snowfields, deserts, or mountain jungles.

Therefore, camouflage camouflage can best meet the various needs of tanks. Small-spot camouflage is designed according to this idea. It is a multi-color camouflage with small spots of various colors interpenetrating each other, but The combination of uneven distribution uses the principle of spatial color mixing to form a large spot pattern.

This large spot composed of small spots of different colors can produce different camouflage effects when observed at different distances.

The fourth is the deformation umbrella. This deformable protective umbrella uses camouflage net technology that combines three functions: anti-optical, anti-infrared and anti-radar. Each umbrella is only a few square meters or smaller. It is firmly installed on the tank and can be automatically unfolded and folded by the crew through the control mechanism, making the operation very convenient.

It can enable the tank to always maintain the best camouflage effect, which can meet the needs of the tank's moving camouflage and the stationary camouflage requirements of the tank.

The fifth is nano-coating. Nanomaterials have a range of amazing properties. For camouflage, it mainly uses its ability to absorb electromagnetic waves in a wide frequency band to make camouflage paint or coatings to absorb light waves, thermal infrared rays and microwaves.

Tanks made or sprayed with this material will have good stealth effects due to their strong light-absorbing and wave-absorbing properties.

Sixth is plasma technology. The principle of plasma technology stealth is to use the broadband wave-absorbing characteristics of plasma to emit plasma through a plasma generator to avoid detection systems and achieve stealth purposes. This technology can also achieve deceptive camouflage by changing the frequency of the reflected signal so that enemy radar can obtain false data.

Tanks using this kind of plasma camouflage can achieve true "stealth" without changing their appearance or spraying absorbing materials and coatings.

Seventh is the infrared camouflage projector. The most easily exposed feature of a tank, besides its shape, is infrared radiation. At present, the armies of various countries are equipped with a large number of infrared guided missiles used to deal with tanks. Therefore, with the infrared camouflage projector, the tank can avoid enemy missile attacks and improve its survivability on the battlefield.