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Article: Camouflage gel developed for tanks and soldiers. (News).
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- The Engineer
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- September 13, 2002
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A CAMOUFLAGE SYSTEM that allows tanks to disappear into their surroundings can also prevent vehicles being detected by infrared scanners, its developer revealed this week. The adaptive camouflage gel, which can change colour according to its environment, could also eventually be used to camouflage soldiers.
The system is being developed by biomimetics researchers at Bath University, as part of a MoD and EPSRC-funded project, due for completion in October 2003. Based on the actions of the cuttlefish, which evades its predators by 'disappearing' into the background, the system can control colour in both natural light and in the infrared and ultraviolet range, ...