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Cruiser Measure 6 made a Brooklyn or St. Louis-class cruisers resemble a New Orleans-class cruiser, [6] by painting a New Orleans silhouette on both sides: Light Gray on a Measure 1 ship, or Dark Gray on a Measure 2 or 3 ship. [a] Measure 7: Similar to Measure 6, Cruiser Measure 7 made an Omaha-class cruiser resemble a Clemson-class destroyer ...
Each ship's dazzle pattern was unique to make it more difficult for the enemy to recognize different classes of ships. The result was that a profusion of dazzle schemes were tried, and the evidence for their success was at best mixed. Dazzle camouflage patterns used on cruisers are presented here. Patterns designed for cruisers were suffixed ...
Dazzle consists in painting obtrusive patterns on vertical surfaces. Unlike some other forms of camouflage, dazzle works not by offering concealment but by making it difficult to estimate a target's identity, range, speed and heading. Each ship's dazzle pattern was unique to make it more difficult for the enemy to recognize different classes of ...
USS Iowa in World War II configuration and wearing Measure 32 Design 1B camouflage pattern, c. 1944. The Iowa -class battleships are 860 ft 0 in (262.13 m) long at the waterline and 887 ft 3 in (270.43 m) long overall with a beam of 108 ft 2 in (32.97 m).
HMT Aquitania wearing dazzle camouflage. Patterned ship camouflage was pioneered in Britain. Early in the First World War, the zoologist John Graham Kerr advised Winston Churchill to use disruptive camouflage to break up ships' outlines, and countershading to make them appear less solid, [14] following the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer's beliefs.
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a type of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards.
Also sometimes called "Duckhunter." Used by the US, (primarily the USMC) in World War II. Remained in use by the USMC into the 1960s. Also used by Turkey until 1980s in different colorways. [28] Hungarian camouflage pattern 2015M: Woodland: 2015: Used by the Hungarian Defence Force introduced in 2015. [41] HyperStealth Spec4ce Afghan Forest ...
Louisville was in overhaul at Mare Island from 8 October until 24 December 1943. Like her sister ships her forward mast was cut down and her aft mainmast was removed to be replaced with a lighter tripod just aft of the second funnel. Louisville had the camouflage measure 32-6D paint scheme added and two new mark 34 main battery directors ...