Thermal shielding technology for military unveiled

Carrington Textiles has revealed a new technology for the defense market called “Stealth,” which is designed to advance thermal signature management via a highly conductive textile technology for superior thermal shielding on the battlefield.

Stealth is engineered with a patented fabric technology that manages dynamic energy waves for mission-critical security and protection, mitigating the thermal signature of a soldier from sensors used in the modern battlefield. Created in collaboration with advanced materials company Noble Biomaterials, the product delivers broad-spectrum SWIR/MWIR/LWIR (shortwave, medium and long infrared) thermal signature management in a lightweight, durable fabric.

Stealth utilizes Noble’s CIRCUITEX® SIGMA technology, which is designed to mitigate thermal detection in military environments. According to Paul Farrell, Carrington Textiles sales director, “Initial feedback from wearer trials of this pioneering concept in military field training exercises and in camp observation, concluded that with Stealth the thermal signature of a soldier was mitigated completely at different distances, with the material being near indistinguishable from the surrounding terrain, regardless of viewing angles.”