To: Chode
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.
20 posted on
06/10/2013 8:23:28 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
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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.
23 posted on
06/10/2013 8:41:16 PM PDT by
ansel12
(Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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?
31 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
yup...
44 posted on
06/11/2013 4:47:09 AM PDT by
Chode
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