The man behind this all, one Professor Sir John Pendry, knows this and he has a plan:
"The next stage is to make the tank invisible without [the cameras and projectors] - which is intricate and complicated, but possible."
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A soldier who's seen it first-hand says:
"This technology is incredible. If I hadn't been present I wouldn't have believed it. I looked across the fields and just saw grass and trees - but in reality I was staring down the barrel of a tank gun."