Beijing. Chani’s team at Zhejiang University is saying that they have achieved what the world has not been able to do yet… Total radar vanishing. A ‘cloaked’ machine that can fly through the sky and not even the radar can understand that the bird of death has passed over its head. Scientists from China’s Zhejiang University have claimed to turn this scary Wi-Fi future into reality. He has developed an ‘aero-amphibious invisibility cloak’. Simply put, a stealth shield that makes the aircraft completely disappear from radar. And now China wants this ‘invisible technology’ to be installed on its drone army. That is, the war of the future: silent drones. Invisible drone.
As is being told in a report by Popular Mechanics. If this is true, then this technology has the potential to change the rules of war. But the question is equally big, is this reality or another hype-driven military showmanship of China? The Chinese Army has taken the invisibility cloaks out of the laboratory and into the clouds. As of 2018, Guangqi Advanced Institute of Technology was reportedly producing over 100,000 square feet of electromagnetic material each year. Defense analysts Jeffrey Lynn and P.W. According to Singer, the material was made for China’s fifth-generation fighter aircraft, the Chengdu J-20 “Mighty Dragon.”
The research team at Zhejiang University designed their invisibility cloak for a high-speed drone, so they had to ensure that it could hide any large, moving object in any weather and any environment, whether it be air, water or land. Zhejiang University’s new cloaking technology has not been applied to Chinese warplanes because it is intended (at least initially) for use on China’s vast, growing drone fleet. Providing virtual invisibility to a drone or group of drones would be a decisive advantage for China in any potential conflict with the United States or its allies in the Indo-Pacific region.
Conventional aircraft send back radar waves and are detected. But China claims that this cloak bends those waves as if they are passing through an invisible tunnel… no reflection, no signal and no alert. Not just radar, this technology claims to manage a large part of the electromagnetic spectrum, meaning whether the aircraft is visible to the eyes or not… even radar will not be able to touch it. The world has been building stealth platforms for decades: to camouflage giants like the F-22, F-35, B-2 Spirit. Absorbent materials like graphene and carbon fibre, flat-angled design, making the radar signature look like a ‘bird’… but despite all this, radar of the right frequency picks them up. That means stealth has never completely disappeared until now.