Has anyone heard this? The French have been working on stealth tanks! It uses radar absorbing material and looks pretty strange. It is interesting.
Below are the 'facts'
I have also added an attachment (I'm obviously not much of a techie)
AMX-30 Stealth MBT
"Giat Industries of France has revealed that several years ago, under contract to the French Delegation Generale pour l'Armement (DGA), the company developed and produced the prototype of a Stealth vehicle, based on the Giat Industries AMX-30 Main Battle Tank (MBT).
Although full details have yet been released, according to Giat Industries this Stealth AMX-30 MBT underwent an extensive series of trials which were very successful.
This Stealth kit was designed to reduce the infra-red and radar signature of the platform and proved difficult to detect using thermal devices operating in the 8-12 micron band, radars and mmw (millimetre wave) devices.
The complete AMX-30 was fitted with a specially designed Radar Absorbing Material (RAM) with the turret and chassis being carefully shaped to reduce the radar signature to a minimum.
The sides of the hull, for example, were angled inwards, while an additional covering was fitted to the lower part of the special skirts to cover the road wheels of the MBT. The 105 mm gun was also fitted with a special covering.
To reduce the thermal signature of the vehicle, cold air was pumped between the outer RAM and the inner layer. Unlike virtually all MBTs, there was no external stowage on the turret and hull. The turret was also specially sloped outwards over the frontal arc and a new mantlet cover designed and fitted for the 105 mm gun.
More recently, the DGA has awarded Giat Industries another contract to develop a Stealth version of the Leclerc MBT, which will undergo an extensive series of trials."
Wierd huh?
Stealth Tanks?
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