The United States and China are in a high-speed race to become the first in the world to lay claim to cloaking technology thats powerful enough to hide military equipment and devices from prying eyes.

The South China Morning Post reported the Chinese army has paid for at least 40 different research groups in the past three years to pursue the technology largely behind the scenes, on the sly. They say theyve discovered a method of bending light in a way that an objects presence is concealed, The New York Post reported. And they swear the technology is genuine.

Meanwhile, top military development companies in the United States are charging forward with the same research. Developers at BAE Systems say theyre in process of trying to discover an invisibility material that will actually hide tanks and armored vehicles.

BAEs technology takes sheets of pixels that rapidly change temperature and affixes them on the vehicle. Cameras that are also on board the vehicle then pick up the scenery which can be adapted on a moving tank to match the area its traversing and display it, The New York Post said. BAEs technology can also be used to change the look of say, a tank, to a car.

The South China Morning Post reported that Zhejiang University researchers are close to making a break-through in a device that stops their invisibility technology from being detected.

"Many people have asked me if the technology can be applied on fighter jets so they can get heat-seeing missiles off their tail. Well, we may work on that," one professor at the university said.

Could you just imagine what war would be like? or what N.K. would do if they got this? Lol they would probably turn all there cars into tanks to attempt to intimidate us.

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