Now You See It, Now You BOOM!
After reading this, it seems like a shitty time for President Obama to be pissy off the Israelis.
Imagine for a moment what the battlefield will look like in the future. Unmanned planes flying through the air; robots fighting on the ground; smart missiles hunting down targets. Now imagine that none of this can be detected on radar screens.
It may sound fictional, but it’s happening. An Israeli company called Nanoflight is currently developing a special paint that makes drones, missiles, or war craft simply disappear. Or, to be more precise, they become very difficult to detect.
Israel’s secret new weapon? – Israel News, Ynetnews
The nanocoating achieves its radar trickery by absorbing the radio waves emitted by the radar and scattering them as heat energy enough so that when the radar gets the bounced back signal it is not regular enough to indicate an object.
IEEE Spectrum: Nano-enabled Coating Makes Aircraft Invisible
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