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21 February 2008, 07:57
tin can
dazzle paint











21 February 2008, 09:19
DaMan
The camo pattern on this ship would be very effective......... if it weren't belching smoke! Wink


21 February 2008, 18:10
mete
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.
21 February 2008, 20:39
tin can
quote:
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.
22 February 2008, 01:03
enfieldspares
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!
23 February 2008, 04:32
D Humbarger
I have always found the "dazzle" concept very interesting.



Doug Humbarger
NRA Life member
Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73.
Yankee Station

Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo.
23 February 2008, 07:23
RG Rhodes
Reminds me of a zebra's stripes..

RG
23 February 2008, 07:39
ireload2
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.