Talk:AIF/@comment-10905876-20141123212511

-AIF research center-

An Antares class frigate fitted with an experimental cloaking device positions itself on a radar test range. It is scanned to get a base reading on its radar, infrared, thermal and optical signature, and is then told to activate its cloak. It then vanishes from sight and radar, and exhibits a diminished infrared signature, but a slightly elevated thermal signature. It holds this state for about 45 seconds, when the cloak overloads and the ship re-appears with smoke coming from roughly the location of the cloak. Despite the somewhat damaging results for the frigate, the test is a success as a radar proof cloak has been demonstrated as possible. Simulations in AIF supercomputers indicate that weapons fire will disrupt the radar cloak such that it will reveal its position, but this is an acceptable limitation.