“Predator” meets “Wonder Woman”

Sort of:

Invisible tanks — and maybe invisible soldiers — may soon be charging onto battlefields.

A British weapons manufacturer is making good on the promise of Wonder Woman’s invisible jet, describing an “eCamouflage” system that uses electronic ink to disguise combat vehicles by projecting videos of the countryside onto them — electronic squid ink of a sort.

Using highly sophisticated electronic sensors attached to a vehicle’s hull, BAE Systems plans to project images of the surrounding environment back onto the outside of the vehicle — enabling it to merge into the landscape and evade attack, explained London paper The Telegraph.

Unlike conventional forms of camouflage, the images on the hull would change in concert with the changing environment, always insuring that the vehicle remains disguised.

No schematics or even pictures of this new “invisible tank” were made available, but The TrogloPundit’s crack investigative team was able to uncover these artists’ renderings:

The invisible tank in the forest:

In the desert:

In the arctic:

On an alien planet:

So far, it looks like a real success.

Whether military uniforms will also begin to emulate those of the Predator alien – or, I suppose, of Wonder Woman – is still up in the air.