Above is a picture of an “invisible bike” “invisible tank”.  You can read more details about it in this article, but the highlight is:

In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.

Now I’m not an expert in warfare, despite countless hours of COD2 with Team Bug, but the more I’ve read about the past few wars that America’s participated in, the fewer tanks we seem to use.  In fact, the last time tanks were really all that effective in a war was World War 2.  I’m sure a few of them see action in Afghanistan and Iraq, but I think it’s pretty safe to say that the era of the tank as dominant battleground player is over.

In a somewhat cynical closing thought:  I wonder how many American soldiers’ lives Army could have saved by spending the Invisitank research budget on equipping the troops with armor…