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Could ghost imaging spy satellite be a game changer for Chinese military?
China is developing a new type of spy satellite using ghost imaging technology that could change the game of military cat and mouse within a decade, according to scientists involved in the project.
Existing camouflage techniques – from simple smoke bombs used to hide tanks or soldiers on battlefields to the hi-tech radar absorption materials on a stealth aircraft or warship – would be of no use against ghost imaging, physics experts said.
Quantum ghost imaging can achieve unprecedented sensitivity by detecting not just the extremely small amount of light straying off a dim target, but also its interactions with other light in the surrounding environment to obtain more information than traditional methods.
A satellite equipped with the new quantum sensor would be able to identify and track targets that are currently invisible from space, such as stealth bombers taking off at night, according to researchers.
The U.S. Air Force and NASA have also researched this technology.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday November 29 2017, @12:31AM (4 children)
I didn't read your whole warplife piece, but I searched the page for some relevant keywords ("sub", "periscope", "china", "chinese") and none of them were in the text.
After some googling, I think you might be conflating two or more events. It seems like Chinese subs have snuck up on US carriers in 2006 and 2015, but I didn't read anything about a photo from a periscope being released. There was a Soviet sub that took a photo of a US carrier in 1974. That photo is available. More likely, you're combining memories of the 2006 Chinese sub with memories of a Canadian sub, Corner Brook, which took a photo of a US carrier from a periscope during a training exercise in 2007. That photo was released by the Canadian government, and I'm seeing people claim that this is it. [quotulatiousness.ca]
Sorry to doubt your memory, but it is made out of water.
(Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday November 29 2017, @01:47AM (2 children)
And I'm dead certain it was a Chinese sub. The Communist Party was quite proud to describe its underwater force projection efforts to the press.
I don't have all of Solving the Software Problem online. I lost the original domain because I was in an insane asylum. It's now hosted at warplane.com but I haven't uploaded all the chapters yet.
Most of the chapters that are on the new site retain the original site's web design template. I've been slowly working towards redesigning them so they use warplane.com's - damn Autocorrect! - template. There's also lots of invalid HTML.
I wrote quite a lot more than is presently available online. There's also some chapters that are online but aren't linked from anywhere.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday November 29 2017, @02:36AM (1 child)
From The Washington Free Beacon: [freebeacon.com]
The Free Beacon could be lying, the unnamed defense officials could be lying or mistaken, the ~2009 incident you remember (which four people have now independently failed to google) could have been further away than the 2006 and 2015 incidents, or the 2006 incident could be the one with the periscope photo and the government could have successfully scrubbed it from the interwebz. Or, your memory could be wrong.
The more certain somebody is of a memory, the more certain I am that they aren't very good at recognising how flawed human memories are. The more time that has passed since an event, the less I trust my memories of it. In lieu of other evidence, this explanation should warrant serious consideration. Our gut feelings about the trustworthiness of a given memory should be discarded offhand, as false memories definitionally seem real. Modelling reality is hard. Much love, MDC.
(Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday November 29 2017, @07:16AM
I don't clearly remember when I saw that photo. But I did see it at an online news site.
The wayback machine would have it but then I'd need to know the original URL of one of that articles that included the photo.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:58PM
and watch out for those super stealth fishing boats/freighters too.