The photoelectric stealth technology, also called photoelectric low detectability technology, is the photoelectric signal characteristics of what weapons and equipment are used.

Photoelectric stealth technology is a technology that makes it difficult to be found, identified, tracked and attacked by enemy photoelectric reconnaissance and guidance systems through the photoelectric signal characteristics of weapons and equipment. Photoelectric stealth technology includes visible light stealth technology, infrared stealth technology, laser stealth technology and comprehensive stealth technology.

Visible light stealth technology in photoelectric stealth technology is to reduce the target characteristics of military equipment itself, reduce the brightness, chromaticity and contrast characteristics of the target and the background, and realize the control of the target visual signal, thus reducing the probability that the visible light detection system finds the target, making it difficult for the enemy's optical detection, tracking and aiming systems such as visible light cameras and television cameras to find the target's visible light signal.

In photoelectric stealth technology, visible light stealth usually adopts the following technical means: coating camouflage. Experiments show that the coating camouflage has quite good stealth effect. For example, when the tank is at 1000 meters, the detection probability is 77% without camouflage, and only 33% with camouflage. Modern camouflage has the function of absorbing waves, which can not only reduce the detection probability of visible light of tanks, but also weaken the infrared radiation of tanks.