Can’t see the ship. Where is it? LOL!
Heh, that did make me laugh, your pointing out the irony of putting camo on it...:)
I wouldn’t discount the ‘stealth’ aspect so quickly, though.
I have read a bit about it in aviation (”Skunk Works” by Ben Rich, who discussed the design of the F-117...he was in charge of the program at Lockheed) and interestingly, the size of the object makes very little difference if the principles are applied, which dumbfounded me. IIRC, they could spot a BB at an insane range with the radars available (I forget what it was, something like ten or fifteen miles) and the guy who was doing the calibration for the scale models they were testing basically showed up with a small case he pulled out of his briefcase that had small spheres of various sizes they would affix to the design models they were working on, so they could have a reference point when doing measurements. They eventually realized the wooden pole they were mounting the models on was inadequate, and had to design special mounting poles that they couldn’t pick up. Very interesting stuff.
Bottom line, from a naval perspective, if there is a radar-guided missle incoming, and you can reduce the RCS 50x less than what it otherwise would be (which is a number I have heard for the Zumwalt class) that makes it far harder for a missile to track, and easier to deploy countermeasures to that radar guided missile that will be effective.
But in an age of satellite technology, one has to wonder how useful it is.