• PugJesusM
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      132 years ago

      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.

    • @Stelus42@lemmy.ca
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      92 years ago

      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.

    • @ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
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      122 years ago

      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.

      • QuinceDaPence
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        62 years ago

        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.

  • @DrunkenPirate@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    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