I'm not scrolling back through 500 pages of shitposts to find it, but there was a good article about it linked. It's not about invisible tanks, it's about buying a few seconds confusion: Within 500 meters it doesn't matter if it's painted with teletubbies waving pride flags, you know it's a tank. Beyond 1,300m it's a big vehicle that isn't yours. The "golden hour" - for the British - is when a Challenger is running you down from 1.3 km and they don't want you to realise until it's too late.
The paints used have different radar/thermal/optical qualities to baffle your onboard AI. That it has that 'digital' look is just a further bamboozlment for the 21st century - Am I looking at a flaw in my HUD, a QR code for free shipping, or has the graphic not loaded in yet? Oh shit it's a--
--BOOM--
It's
Dazzle for the 21st century.