Dazzle wartime camouflage

[likesfish]

http://militarygear.com/asp/2006/12/14/why-we-changed-our-uniform/
the us military at its finiest

 

[Pingu]

http://militarygear.com/asp/2006/12/14/why-we-changed-our-uniform/
the us military at its finiest

link is camouflaged so you cant see the page when you click on it (works without the extra http though)

 

[WouldBe]

Instead of painting patterns on the ships they should just have painted lots of ships and made the fleet look bigger.

 

[DownwardDog]

In a similar vein, an utterly mental "digital" camo Super Hornet...

 

[gsv]

The point of Dazzle was to bugger up split-ring range-finders on submarine periscopes.
Is there a similar purpose to camo on that Super Hornet, or is it just meant to look

GS(v)

 

[DownwardDog]

The point of Dazzle was to bugger up split-ring range-finders on submarine periscopes.
Is there a similar purpose to camo on that Super Hornet, or is it just meant to look

GS(v)

It's just for the awesomeness.

The USN also do kewl WW2 "throwback" schemes...

 

[gsv]

Fairy-dos! Sorry I sounded arsey - had just bashed out a necessarily arsey email to our "Diversity Business Partner".

GS(v)

 

[Pingu]

the american military doesnt do much well but it does have the coolest callsigns and paint schemes.

e.g.

british army: charlie ten alpha

us army: Killzone actual

 

[likesfish]

mind you no brit could use the a call sign like "steel rain" and keep a straight face.

 

[Pingu]

mind you no brit could use the a call sign like "steel rain" and keep a straight face.

and yet at the same time have a hiden desire to have a callsign like "mofo deathbringer"

 

[DownwardDog]

the american military doesnt do much well but it does have the coolest callsigns and paint schemes.

The Germans and Japanese are good at special schemes too.

Tornado IDS from Aufklärungsgeschwader 51 „Immelmann“

Mt. Fuji/Cherry Blossom F-15 from 305 Squadron/JASDF

 

[sim667]

digital camo is

topper harley over and out

 

[Pingu]

This GR2... well.. words fail me... what were they thinking with this extravegansa of colour and design...

 

[DownwardDog]

This GR2... well.. words fail me... what were they thinking with this extravegansa of colour and design...

Tally that bogey, Pingu, that's a GR.4.

Two more cool ones...

Slovakian digital Fulcrum

Splinter desert camo Bombcat - "The Thief of Baghdad"

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Bump as there's one on The Thames now as part of the 14-18 Now Art Installations

 

[Roadkill]

Bump as there's one on The Thames now as part of the 14-18 Now Art Installations

That's brilliant.

 

[likesfish]

Shippys new job as a plane painter for the jsdf didnt last very long

 

[StoneRoad]

Dazzle was also used on some factories and their shadows, but some patterns were more like field boundaries.
(can't find the pics I remember about this, will post if/when I do find them)

Another distraction / camo' scheme was something called "starfish" - which pretended to a be a bombed area on fire, which also worked quite well at attracting attacks.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

That's brilliant.

Was going to see it last night after the Spectra column of light, but too knackered to go looking for it. May go today instead

 

[T & P]

I'd like to see Murakami-themed camouflage on the Japanaese Air Force and Navy

 

[Dovydaitis]

No one mentioned the Berlin brigade camouflage pattern yet?




http://www.emlra.org/articles/berlin_brigade.htm

I decked my landy out in this design. So far the only one I've seen on the British mv circuit

 

[kebabking]

we had a couple of landies painted in the Berlin scheme, it was remarkably effective in urban areas. they were also ranted to fuck having been used by the cav who apparently still don't know what a gearbox is for - horses not having them....

 

[likesfish]

Genuine japanese recruiting ideas

 

[DownwardDog]

GAF Eurofighter from Taktische Luftwaffengeschwader 74.

 

[dylanredefined]

We painted it camouflage so no one could see it. Then one crashed and we couldn't find it so we decided to paint bits of it orange so people could see it. No one seems to see anything wrong with this.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Went past it today on the boat, so not enough time to catch many pics

 

[friedaweed]

I was in Liverpool today with my boys and had to snap this for you weirdos on this thread...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I was going to ask if anyone had seen the Liverpool one and then you appear

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Info on the Liverpool one

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/exhibitions/dazzle-ship/

 

[dylanredefined]

Canadian hornets have a canopy painted underneath so in a dogfight you might not know which way it is up the most modern version of dazzle camo I guess. No idea if it works or not. Guess no sky god will admit to being fooled by it.