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  "textContent": "Thermal imaging is making traditional camouflage useless (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)\n\nInvisibility cloaks used to be the stuff of science fiction.\n\nNow they are a piece of tech that could be crucial to modern warfare – and the US wants their hands on them.\n\nThe Marine Corps is looking for a new outer garment to stop their troops from being spotted by thermal-imaging technology.\n\nThe problem is that traditional camouflage is no longer cutting it.\n\nThe modern battlefield is filled with thermal sensors that can detect humans and vehicles based on their heat alone.\n\nThe Marines Corps issued a call out for manufacturers of the technology (Picture: Bloomberg via Getty Images)\n\nThis technology has even been embedded in Ukrainian drones, allowing them to take out Russian targets.\n\nThe US appears to have cottoned on to these developments and is trying to get ahead.\n\nThe country’s Marines published a new ‘sources sought’ notification on Wednesday, which confirmed they were searching for vendors who could produce a cloak that would reduce the chance of infrared detection.\n\nCalling it a ‘Multispectral Camouflage Overgarment’, the force said it will work by ‘mitigating detection across the visual, near infrared, and short-wave infrared spectrums as well as suppress thermal signatures in the mid-wave infrared and long wave infrared to reduce the likelihood of detection by thermal sensors.’\n\nThe announcement also painted a picture of how the new technology might operate.\n\nThe Marine Corps said they were seeking ‘a single-piece, generously-sized draped design constructed to provide full-body coverage, including individual gear and equipment’.\n\nInfrared technology can spot targets from long distances\n\nThe cloak must be capable of being donned within 15 seconds and function in extreme temperatures.\n\nThe military unit wants to buy more than 61,000 of the cloaks by 2030.\n\nUS Generals have long had their eye on invisibility technology.\n\nGen. Mark Milley, then the Army’s chief of staff, told lawmakers in 2019: ‘We know that adversary [target] acquisition systems are very, very capable in that, if you can see a target, with precision munitions … you can hit a target.\n\n‘So camouflage systems that break up electronic signatures and break up heat signatures are critical.’\n\nThe need to evade thermal sensors has become more urgent as the infrared systems become commonplace on the battlefield in Ukraine.\n\nSecretary of the Army Dan Driscoll admitted last year soldiers ‘cannot move without being seen’ while on the ground.\n\nThe US are following in the footsteps of the Ukrainian army, who have been trying to develop invisibility tech to outsmart Russia.\n\nThe US wants more tha. 61,000 invsibility cloaks by 2030 (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images)\n\nThe country’s 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Mariupol Brigade posted video footage last year of their new anti-thermal suits.\n\nThe group said: ‘This is not fantasy. It is the reality of modern warfare.\n\n‘Thermal imaging suits are changing the rules of the battlefield, making soldiers invisible to enemy thermal-imaging cameras and drones. Such technologies are critical for assault teams, reconnaissance, snipers, and even evacuation missions. And this is just the beginning.’\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,****check our news page**.\n\nComment now Comments  Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google Add as preferred source ",
  "title": "US Marines are on the hunt for an invisibility cloak"
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