Saturday, November 25, 2017

Is that dazzled enough?


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  1. Beautiful example of a dazzle pattern! The French light cruiser Gloire was similarly painted
    http://assets2.thecreatorsproject.com/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/a19b461d8ec0b6b633ed4e5e505f5da9.jpg
    Different patterns serve different purposes. This is one that is meant to break up the silhouette for gunnery or torpedo targeting, as well as making it difficult to determine her heading.
    Where you see dark blues or grays like Pennsylvania, South Dakota or New Jersey wore in World War 2, the idea is make the ship harder to spot and identify from the air. Where there are graded systems, like Massachusetts wore off Casablanca, where the hull is dark blue, the superstructure a lighter blue and the tops of the superstructure a light gray, the purpose is make the ship blend into the horizon, making it more difficult to spot from the surface

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  2. Many years ago, somebody asked me why we don't do that today if it worked well 'then'. I said, "radar."

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