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I heard that it is supposed to work by confusing the enemy's rangefinder, but how does that work? I also heard of a "bow wave" painted on which is supposed to make estimating it's speed harder. What does a bow wave look like? Couldn't painting water and sky on the ship make it confusing to enemys?
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It didn't really work all that well, it was supposed to break up the outline of the ship on the horizon, Radar made it obsolete !How do I rent a houseboat to live on in LA area?
It was wartime and they were trying everything but it only worked marginaly because the overall shape was still there and it didn't work in low light at all.What is the approx value of a 16 ft. 2000 Tracker Bass Fishing Boat?
It worked about as well as the zig-zagging worked... and any U-Boat skipper can tell you that all that turning and twisting didn't work either.
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i think it was primarily in W.W.1 no radar was in use at that time. was also used for a while in W.W.2 not any type of expert here but i don't think they had electronic rangefinders in W.W.1 or any way of bouncing a signal off the object to measure the distance.radar...ra-radio.. was also used on the land, i think it was a painter or fashion person that came up with the idea..no it was not very good,but worth a try.. and of course the bow wave idea was to try to make the ship appear to be going fast than it was. the idea was to make it harder to get a relative course and speed when torpedoing. i'm sure someone will check the "net" and correct me..The other lines about rangefinders were pretty much correct--dazzle camouflage predated radar.
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The idea was that it's hard for the eye to follow a shape if the colors keep changing light-and-dark. So it's harder to make out what you're looking at. It doesn't hide the ship, but it makes it harder to tell a cruiser from an ocean liner. If you're lucky, the other guy thinks you're a battleship twenty miles away instead of a destroyer ten miles away.
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Like the other said, it didn't work all that well. Better than nothing more or less covers it.
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The idea is sound enough, in the right place. I've heard of camouflage clothing that works on the principle, and works fairly well (ASAT pattern). But there you're in front of an irregular background. With nothing but sky behind you it isn't nearly as good.
As someone else mentioned, the bow wave was supposed to make the enemy think you were going faster than you were--or at least to make it harder to see the real bow wave. Estimating speed at cannon-and-torpedo range wasn't all that easy--they hoped to confuse the issue. Again, not much good--any sensible gunner took time and a stopwatch and got a good estimate anyhow.
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Both ideas were workable, after a fashion, but they required a lot more effort than was put into them. In North Africa the British had some high-speed rescue boats that were disguised as beat-up fishing boats or small freighters for undercover work. Most of it was done with paint tricks like these--but the paint jobs were planned by one of the best stage magicians in England. He KNEW how to fool the eye...
It made it harder to track a target through an optical rangefinder or a periscope. Tracking the target and setting up a shooting solution is largely contingent on the range and speed of the target, and the harder it is to estimate those two factors, the harder it is to calculate an accurate shooting solution.
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