Yes!citygirl said:not very good camouflage though...ya could spot them things a mile off![]()
citygirl said:not very good camouflage though...ya could spot them things a mile off![]()
mrs quoad said:Yes!
The whole point is to break up the outline, so's people don't know where things are headed from e.g. a submarine![]()
Stick mirrors to the hull of the ship then.firky said:Very effective at the time as rangefinders onboard were optically rather than radar powered. I think they tried the idea on tanks too.
That's absolute rubbish. They may as well have made it Burberry.mrs quoad said:
citygirl said:not very good camouflage though...ya could spot them things a mile off![]()
You can't though, that's the point. At any distance at sea it gets very dificult to see. I even saw a film of an experiment where scientists put a frame work of lamps on the side of a tank and then varied the intensity of them to match that of the sky, against the skyline you simply couldn't see the bugger, up close it looked like an expensive christmas tree!citygirl said:not very good camouflage though...ya could spot them things a mile off![]()
That's not a war penguin.gsv said:SS War Penguin is fab!
Forget about not being seen, that only solves their first problem. Focus on confusing them so they don’t know where you’re going. Then their torpedoes will be shot in vain because they thought you zigged when you really zagged.
British Artist and naval officer Norman Wilkinson had this very insight and pioneered the Dazzle Camouflage movement (known as Razzle Dazzle in the United States). Norman used bright, loud colours and contrasting diagonal stripes to make it incredibly difficult to gauge a ship’s size and direction.
It was cheap, effective, and widely-adopted during the War...
http://twistedsifter.com/2010/02/razzle-dazzle-camouflage/
Or someone new.....Brilliant designs on those ships. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when the suggestion was put to the Admiralty.
Maybe the modern navy could commission Banksy...
The book on this stuff, Churchill's Wizards, is pretty interesting. There's a lovely recounting of a chap in charge of a fake airfield phoning up his superiors at the real airbase, complaining that his decoys are being blown up. "Splendid, carry on" they say. "But they're blowing up my best decoys, sir!"
The book on this stuff, Churchill's Wizards, is pretty interesting. There's a lovely recounting of a chap in charge of a fake airfield phoning up his superiors at the real airbase, complaining that his decoys are being blown up. "Splendid, carry on" they say. "But they're blowing up my best decoys, sir!"
The Royal Navy painted up two ships like that and carried out sea trials. They collided.