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In the modern world, spy satellites can receive information about almost any objects. In order to keep the details of the equipment and the very fact of moving any objects secret, Chinese scientists suggest using the "invisibility cloak" developed by them.
It was developed by a team of the Air Force Engineering University in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. According to leading researcher Xu Hexiu, the use of this technology will create the effect of "empty land" for enemy equipment.
After covering the equipment with raincoats, the spy satellites will not be visible. Radars will display it as a flat earth. One can only imagine what opportunities this gives for the covert movement of troops and their deployment in close proximity to the objectives of the operation.
The new material from which the invisibility cloak is made is lightweight and flexible. It has a special coating that changes the nature of the radar signal. The invisibility cloak consists of several layers. On top there is a thin fabric that can manipulate electromagnetic waves - scatter them.
According to Chinese scientists, such cloaks can be used to cover tanks, artillery, armored vehicles and other military equipment. According to Xu Hexiu, a large number of metamaterials were developed earlier in the world to deceive satellites, but the invisibility cloak created by his team differs from all by much higher stealth qualities.
Given that satellites are one of the important tools for the United States and NATO countries to obtain information about the movements of troops of potential opponents, these capabilities, if implemented in practice, significantly complicate the work of Western intelligence. Chinese scientists claim that more than 80% of military equipment will be able to be protected from enemy missile strikes in case of mass application of the new technology.
However, the world press wrote about the invention of the "invisibility cloak" back in 2017. Thus, a special membrane fabric was developed at Saratov State University, with the help of which it is possible to make both military equipment and military personnel invisible to enemy radars.
The invisibility effect in the invention of Saratov scientists is provided by applying a thin fluoroplastic coating with special properties to the fabric. This is how the membrane tissue turns out to be "invisible" to the enemy's special equipment. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of such materials in the conditions of modern armed conflicts, in which radar surveillance and spy satellites are playing an increasingly important role.
