Cloak of Silence - Stealth tech not for aircraft, but for submarines this time around
 

Brought to you by the great inventors of the world - America. You know we are in your backyard, but good luck knowing exactly where! :D

http://www.dailytech.com/Cloak+of+Si...ticle15435.htm

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The technology needs another three to five years before a "practical structure" can be developed for wide-scale testing.

If its all what it claims to be and it is seeing the light of day now I suspect it is already in use.

"Silence is golden":woot:

The Klingons have been using this technology for years :DL

On a serious note: Unless overcome, the giveaway will be when opening hatches etc. prior to an offensive weapon/missile launch.

Yeah, but Jim, if you are close enough to open a hatch and let a missile go to do it's damage it is over for the receivers of said missile. At that point, it does not matter if they know you are there. :D

I think I'd be bothered if I was on a Boomer and suspected a Hunter Killer was nearby listening out for me :o

Me too! I believe they still play those cat and mouse games these day.

I rather suspect Asia had a hand in bringing us Mr Fang, Shu Zhang and Leilei
Yin's invention as well. Even if only a genealogical hand. ;)

In the other direction, they might spend 20 years trying to chase this wild goose down. Somewhere at the 5 year mark, someone will decide this wouldn't work. By 10 years those voices will become audible. About 20 the developers give up.

From 2273 I think, let me check my Klingon history book.:03:

I liked this comments from the news site:

"Several submarines have collided in the past but with this new tech it'll be double the fun. "

And this one:

"If a two subs collide in the ocean and no one survives to hear it, does it make a sound?

If both are cloaked in silence, I guess not.

If one of those two subs carries a nuclear warhead, then I'd say, sure, everyone will hear it!" :D

A little off topic but this is what always bothered me about the movie Hunt for Red October.

Here the russians spent millions of dollars and thousands of man hours on a super secret 'stealth' propulsion system "undectectable" yet a seaman figures out how to track it within a few hours using the gear they already had on the boat. :doh:

Get used to this being the fate of Russian equipment in American fiction. They are intrinsically inferior. If they aren't some stupid "American ingenuity" would beat them anyway.

LOL :DL