Re: Stealth Tanks?
One moment please...
Consider that in a very high-tech, strongly mechanized battlefield (as the GIAT guys apparently did).
Every AFV is tough, very mobile, and can react very quickly when targetted (laser warning, flash detectors, etc.), and most of the anti-vehicle rounds are either "smart" or shot with the assistance of a hi-tech targetting device.
Both use sensors. Both are too complicated/fast/manoeuvrable to be targetted by hand.
Now comes a tank which you can see ten miles away maybe, but which is invisible to your sophisticated TI/GSR sight. How are you going to shower it with genial-brained ATGMs or slug a tank's silver bullet in the gunner's right eye when your targetting system cannot detect the thing?
If it is strong enough to resist dumb ammo like M-77-like clusters and RPGs, it doesn't matter at all if you can spot it with your eyeball Mk1 or not. As long as it is invisible to your tank sight or missile seeker, it might as well not be here. And if it is strong and fast enough you will have a hard time pinning it down using manual/eyesight targetting.
Now all that works in perfect cases only, of course... And admittedly the coating will be too fragile to last on a rugged terrain, under a shower of arty splinters...
Well, just one more of these technologies...
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