QinetiQ provides a UK sovereign capability in stealth materials across the three major signature control domains:
With equipment and capabilities unique in the UK, we offer modelling, design, characterisation, prototyping and trials for a wide range of stealth treatments. We have been providing practical solutions, advice and assessment services to government and the global defence industry for decades, and our stealth materials are used to optimise the signatures of major military platforms. Our products are tested in service and perform at the extremes of temperature and pressure.
However, military customers are not our sole focus. Our background in stealth enables us to control the propagation of light, heat, sound, vibration and radio signals via the use of bespoke materials to solve problems in the commercial world. This unique expertise, together with our industry and academic contacts, equips us to provide a wide range of bespoke military and commercial solutions, including:
Noise and vibration control – machinery and vehicles
Novel sports equipment, such as vibration-damped structures Stealthy wind turbines design and radar impact assessment
Blast and impact mitigation treatments
Combat ID systems – remote ‘friend-or-foe’ discrimination for people and vehicles
RFID solutions – tagging for inventory and security
Visible and thermal waveband camouflage pattern design and assessment – for clothing, vehicles and buildings
Electronic camouflage – active, adaptive systems
Thermal control coatings – insulators, reflectors and redirectors
Electromagnetic control in buildings – screens, filters and absorbers
Document security features