By With all the excitement going round about how China finally flew their Stealth Jet Fighter, the Allies decided to show off their e-Camouflage idea.
e-what? e-Camouflage, it’s a great new idea (and I do mean, idea, you’ll find out later why) about how to make tanks into more difficult targets than they are.
Let’s face it, on a modern battlefield, the tank is pretty obsolete as a machine. While heavily armored and equipped with great weapons they have a series of flaws.
For starters, they are immense vehicles that are pretty easy to spot, unless they get e-Camouflage. Even if they aren’t easy to spot, tanks in simple camouflage are still pretty easy to hit as they are very hot and relatively slow.
British Challenger Tank
So what’s the whole point of e-Camouflage then? In short, it’s a way of covering your tank in e-Ink so that it gets better camouflage. The e-Ink would be programmed to show an image taken of the tank’s background.
The concept belongs to the British at BAE and it all sounds very neat until you get to the Internet geeks and trolls.
It’s these chaps that pointed out how this theoretical concept wouldn’t actually work.
Some of the major problems of e-Camouflage are related to the e-Ink’s very poor refresh rate, to the inability to cover the entire vehicle and to the fragility and cost of the system.
e-Camouflage tank
Gotta love them Internet trolls, they always find something good and interesting and rip away the fun in it. e-Camouflage went exactly through this problem.
While it’s easy to disprove as a viable solution, I thinks the guy at BAE does need some appreciation for his innovation with e-Camouflage.