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PHOTO - 1917: Soldier in Black and White Camouflage
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Posted on 06/10/2013 7:42:34 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Soldier in black and white uniform to conceal him while climbing trees. He stands in front of a house camouflaged to represent a fence and trees. Company F, 24th Engineers. American University, D.C. Army Engineer Corps..
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KEYWORDS: army; armycorpsofengineers; camouflage; invisibleman; modernhistory; soldier; usace; usarmy; warfare; zebra
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To: UCANSEE2
You know, there’s just nothing on today that is remotely as good as Monty Python was.
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posted on
06/10/2013 8:26:15 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: Theoria
Thats Awesome!
Cut some Eye slits and its your basic Muslim, Capitalist wedding dress.
To: KarlInOhio
That type of camouflage isn't trying to keep the ship from being seen. It is trying to screw with the optical range finding and speed prediction. It doesn't help you to see the ship if you can't tell whether it is at 8000 yards or 6000 yards and whether it is headed towards or away from you. Once radar was common the ships went back to haze gray again. Thanks for that explanation, I knew there was some intelligence to it as there usually is with things like this that puzzle us, but I didn't know what it was.
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posted on
06/10/2013 8:41:16 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
To: DogByte6RER
The Scots were a head of their time: Ghillie suit
The name was derived from gille, the Scottish Gaelic for "servant" or a "lad". In English, this term was especially used to refer to those assisting in deer hunting, deer stalking or fly fishing expeditions in the Scottish Highlands.
The ghillie suit was developed by Scottish gamekeepers as a portable hunting blind. Lovat Scouts, a Scottish Highland regiment formed by the British Army during the Second Boer War, is the first known military unit to use ghillie suits.
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posted on
06/10/2013 8:43:18 PM PDT
by
ConservativeInPA
(Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
To: DogByte6RER
PHOTO - 1917: Soldier in Black and White Camouflage Logical, the world was black and white then. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color at first.
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posted on
06/10/2013 8:46:04 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
("New Yorks Finest" are now "The Untouchables")
To: Chode
Did they christen that ship migraine Fortification?
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posted on
06/10/2013 8:48:00 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: DogByte6RER
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To: DanielRedfoot
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posted on
06/10/2013 9:00:01 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
To: PA Engineer
I sometimes get what my Dr. calls “ocular migraines” and they do sort of look like that except with purple and yellow and somewhat semi-circular.
Fortunately I do not get headaches with them.
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posted on
06/10/2013 9:00:04 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(There Are Three Things That Remain--Faith, Hope, and Love--and,the Greatest of These is Love..)
To: Oztrich Boy
Logical, the world was black and white then. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color at first. But why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
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posted on
06/10/2013 9:12:18 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
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To: KarlInOhio
“optical range finding”
Cool - thanks! I had an old optical range finder where you would look at something (a tree) and see two of them (stereo) and turn the dials until you saw just one, and then look at the distance on the dial.
Was the optical range finding in WWI a similar thing?
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posted on
06/10/2013 9:13:15 PM PDT
by
21twelve
("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
To: KarlInOhio
But why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way? Not necessarily, a lot of great artists were insane.
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posted on
06/10/2013 9:16:56 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
("New Yorks Finest" are now "The Untouchables")
To: 21twelve
Yes they work just like the rangefinders on old cameras except their base is far wider giving them greater accuracy.
I saw one at a gun show not too long ago. It was maybe 4 feet between lenses and had a nice clear image. I have no idea how much they are worth but this guy wanted about $500 for his.
I didn’t have $500 so I tried trading him all kind of things, giving him better than $500 value but I guess he wanted cash.
I have read that they can be very accurate.
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posted on
06/10/2013 9:24:43 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(There Are Three Things That Remain--Faith, Hope, and Love--and,the Greatest of These is Love..)
To: yarddog
Fortunately I do not get headaches with them.
I found if I take 800mg of ibuprofen during the fortification phase I can preempt most of the headache.
I had a Pavlovian reaction to that picture.
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posted on
06/10/2013 9:24:52 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: DogByte6RER
They used to camouflage ships that way, too. It’s called “razzle painting” and it confuses the eye of the person targeting them, because it makes it harder to tell their direction and speed when they’re moving.
The effect works for clothing, too. In cover, it’s also much tougher to pick up the outline of a target.
Breaking up the outline of the target and confusing the eye of the predator is how it helps zebras survive out in the open.
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posted on
06/10/2013 9:33:23 PM PDT
by
Stingray
(Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
To: Oztrich Boy; KarlInOhio
you guys are good, that was one of the greatest bits ever.
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posted on
06/10/2013 9:43:55 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: DogByte6RER
He's doing it all wrong!
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posted on
06/10/2013 10:33:17 PM PDT
by
444Flyer
To: DogByte6RER
LOL
I was thinking “Here Kitty, Kitty”.
Like a Bengal Tiger.
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posted on
06/10/2013 10:33:21 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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