The best part is that they went through all of this effort, and no one knows if the camo did anything
It was effective in distorting range measurements. Which is useful if you don’t like being shot at.
Modern naval vessels are likely to use sonar/radar/laser rather than optical for range estimates.
Which is useful if you don’t like being shot at.
If, however, you do like being shot at, this can be facilitated by placing easily identifiable markers at the bow and stern and writing the distance between those markers in large leters on the sides of the ship.
Removed by mod
There’s some evidence it did work, to a limited degree, but visual target acquisition became less important as stuff like radar and sonar took off.
From my understanding, it wasn’t supposed to make the ship invisible or even hard to see. It was supposed to make it impossible to gauge the size or class from a distance.
Reminds me of the new test cars pf German carmakers that you see sometimes on the German highway. It’s about obfuscating the design
Edit: Btw German highway IS war
Oh yeah I’ve seen those and they look really cool. I wish the cars kept them
