It seems the movie Firefox is becoming a reality
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I haven’t seen the movie…but don’t you think now, that most movies give us hints about how the future might look? Its incredible, the technology advancements, but…scary too.
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The stealth technology has been around for 40 years.
The military have all sorts of weird scary stuff they don’t tell us about.
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True Swimmy…I believe most UFO sightings are advanced military things, not aliens as some would think! 
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A fly thru take-away.
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Too funny! 
Should we be worried, nah. 
We hear strange sounding things in the night.
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The appearance of the Tempest aircraft has matured since early images were first released of it in 2018. Among other things Its weight has been reduced and its outline slimmed down.
When it eventually takes to the skies, the Tempest will likely be routinely flanked by un-crewed combat drones, described as ‘adjuncts’ by the Tempest consortium.
The whole project is being devised in parallel with weapons manufacturer MBDA. Missiles may be launched from a Tempest but handed over to one of its robot adjuncts for redirection to a more urgent target.
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Yep…we really don’t know whats going on up in those skies really 
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Or even on the ground.
Think Philadelphia Experiment.
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I read up a little on that, because I hadn’t heard of it before. Do you believe it?
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Time travel no, not at all.
Bending light to make things disappear, no.
Being able to make things seem to disappear to the human eye and certain optical sensors by the use of very advanced electronic stuff, most definitely yes.
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Oh but this has been done already…
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Well you have the advantage of me on this one.
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…"Researchers at the University of Birmingham and at MIT have successfully used naturally forming calcite crystals to render objects invisible. In the Birmingham experiment, a paper clip was rendered invisible when a composite crystal was placed over it. By gluing together two calcite crystals with opposite crystal orientations, the latter reflected and refracted the light coming through in such a way as to conceal the paper clip on the other side, making it appear as though it wasn’t there.
Since the calcite crystals can grow well over a dozen feet long, it is theoretically possible to conceal a person or even an average New York City apartment!..."
See, it only take a couple of crystals and some glue. A bit Blue Peter-ish don’t you think?
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Making a 70 tonne stationary tank disappear when you are walking past it I can believe.
Making it disappear when it is moving flat out is something completely different.
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Well, I think this is being worked on as we speak - especially in the military & cloaking devices, but it is way beyond our ken. It isn’t something they are likely to publicise much of, especially given recent events. I found bits and bobs online, but nothing I could make sense of 
My thoughts exactly. Who was it that said fact is stranger than fiction? I can remember my dear departed dad saying that’s the future when we were watching an early episode of Startrek and Cpt Kirk was using his transponder to talk to Scotty. Little did we know at the time but, to all intents and purposes, we were looking at a clam-shell mobile phone about 25 years before mobile telephones even became a “real thing”.