Talk:Dazzle camouflage

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[edit] Mixed messages

"American naval leadership expressed the dissenting opinion that dazzle camouflage was effective. Dazzle camouflage continued to be used until the end of World War II."

"However effective the scheme was in WWI, it eventually became completely obsolete as rangefinders became more advanced, and, by the time it would have been put to use again in WWII, the advance of widespread naval aviation and radar made it useless. The airplanes could observe the ships from the sky, and the radar could aim guns much farther than the eye could see."

The last paragraph, particularly the 'would have been' implies it never was. Which is true? --195.195.166.41 16:49, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Modern" use

I remember seeing a few months ago on Boing Boing, who did several postings on dazzle camo, something about the West German army painting their tanks in a maroon, white, pink and brown blocky camo scheme at one point in the '60s and was fairly effective in urban and suburban situations. I also recall that, in playing to the stealth characteristics of the ship, the Swedish Visby class corvette is painted in a similar jagged and contrasting to the dazzle camouflage ships of WWI and WWII, although in contrasting grays instead of pastels. There's even promo pieces with the Visby in this blocky puzzle piece pattern, very similar to the examples shown here. And the Visby isn't going to be alone: some artist concepts of the DD-21 Zumwalt and the Litoral Assault Craft feature similar schemes, along with stealth construction techniques. --YoungFreud 03:44, 11 July 2006 (UTC)