I'll Take the Stealth Spray Paint Please

German Invents Radar Camouflaging Paint

A German inventor has created a radar-evading camouflage paint in the deserts of the United Arab Emirates. An institute back in Germany tested the paint and discovered -- to everyone's surprise -- that it actually works. The German defense industry is starting to take an interest.

Werner Nickel came to the desert because he had bred a worm whose excrement made it possible to grow radishes in the dry desert sand. The sheikhs were impressed with the inventor -- a German no less -- who could reclaim their land. So Nickel, 67, a wheelchair-bound amateur inventor from Berlin, moved to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to run his new project.

spiegel.de/international