IIT Mandi's new research might become a new shelter on battleground

India’s tanks, warships, military aircraft, and establishments may soon be able to camouflage from enemy's radars, with a new radar-absorbing material developed by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi in Himachal Pradesh.

The indigenously developed material absorbs a wide range of radar frequencies (signals), irrespective of the direction from which the radar signal hits the target. The radar absorbing cover works on Frequency selective surfaces (FSS), which involves modifying the electromagnetic wave to provide signals with dispersive transmitted or reflected characteristics.

Once this material is placed on an object it absorbs any incoming signal and restricts or