British Army Steals Romulan Cloaking Device

Indeed, it is not "pure" invisibility.

this is primitive technology it is still visible by ic rendgen and radar so it is not good for military if you want to see it you will

I don't understand what trhe big deal is?? I became wheelchair bound in 2001 and everyone who is in a wheelchair knows that as soon as you sit down in a wheelchair you are cloaked, invisible.

Invisibility is in the eye of the beholder, or is that visibility? If I don't want to be seen I just "think" myself invisible and it works. Stood next to friends on railway stations and such and despite me standing right next to them they don't see me if i don't want them too. Its called; The Glamour.

It would be cheaper to just paint the tank to resemble something that men are demonstrably unable to see, such as a sinkful of dirty dishes, an unmade bed, or a basket of laundry waiting to be folded. ;-)

Someone has fitted a cloaking device with an intermittent switch on my car. I'm quite convinced, by the behaviour of other drivers, that I must go invisible at random.

It seems a quickly printed or painted drape would be more effective and lower cost even against infrared, night vision, and areal vision....

This technology has been used successfully since 2001...in the telecom industry. The market for AdvancedTCA systems is so well cloaked, it doesn't even exist. Go ask Loring Wirbel....

The inspiration for this military cloaking technology may be much earlier than "Star Trek." In the 1980s, while researching something else at the Cleveland Public Library, I stumbled across a 1940 London Times article describing a project to build a bomber out of transparent plastic materials, so it would be invisible to enemy fighters and antiaircraft gunners. Apparently nothing ever came of this early concept for a stealth bomber. In a way, the British have now resurrected the idea and applied it to tanks.