The camo pattern on this ship would be very effective......... if it weren't belching smoke!

It's properly called disruptive camouflage.It's meant not to hide a ship but to confuse you so you can't tell the size or type ship.

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It's properly called disruptive camouflage.It's meant not to hide a ship but to confuse you so you can't tell the size or type ship.

or the direction and speed it's traveling.

Yes. So that the AOB or "Angle on the Bow" cannot be correctly calculated by a submarine about to launch a torpedo attack.

There is another bizarre British wartime camouflage applied to vehicles in 1940 called "Mickey Mouse Ear"!

And some British fighters were, underneath, painted one side from totally black the other side totally white!

I have always found the "dazzle" concept very interesting.

Reminds me of a zebra's stripes..

RG

When there is a fake horizon, turrets and two or 3 fake bow waves painted on the side of the hull it must have been pretty confusing for a submariner.
Put that ship in a convoy with several others behind it and it would be worse.