Russia is Painting Dark Stripes on its Warships to Confuse Ukrainian Drones
If there’s any evidence that time is cyclical, one needs only look to military tactics that are old, and new again.
In World War I (and stretching into World War II), the UK started painting its surface warships in a camouflage pattern called “dazzle.” Not to be confused with what I tell myself in the mirror every morning before work: “Alright Wes, time to give ’em the ole razzle dazzle!”
Actually, dazzle camouflage was known as ‘razzle dazzle’ in the U.S.
Unlike traditional camouflage, where the purpose is to conceal, dazzle was designed to make it difficult for German subs to estimate a target’s range, speed, and heading.
Presumably, the answer was to make the warships look as obnoxious as possible.
It’s an interesting concept. Knowing that it’s impossible to make a warship invisible on the high seas, dazzle’s inventor, maritime artist Norman Wilkinson, decided to go in the complete opposite direction, making the warship paint loud and ostentatious.
