The British Army has unveiled a new pixelated Minecraft-style digital camouflage that makes tanks 80 per cent harder to spot on the battlefield.
Trained soldiers find it far more difficult to see the machines when they are covered with the MCDC 5 design, rather than the usual bog standard green .
The new pattern is made up of squares that look like scrambled pixels on a digital screen and has slashed the detection rate to 20 per cent.
Officers at the Armoured Trials and Development Unit in Bovington, Dorset, launched the project, dubbed Hide, Deceive, Survive .
Lieutenant Colonel Rob Page labelled the tests a big win after working with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and the Tank Museum on the design.
New Army tank camouflage can trick human eye and drone technology with multi-pattern
Testing suggests the new camo design, which has moved away from bog standard green , can cut the detection rates by 80% and Generals hailed the results as a big win
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