Many of the cruise-friendly Caribbean countries have camouflage as their military uniform and so it’s illegal to wear it in these countries.
Many of the cruise-friendly Caribbean countries have camouflage as their military uniform and so it’s illegal to wear it in these countries.
I mean… if you actually read the article (or even the comment you are replying to…) you’ll see it isn’t ironic in the slightest.
Camouflage from other ships really isn’t a thing. You can paint your ship grey or blue but that still stands out against the horizon at sea probably 20 hours a day. And is worse than useless if you are near a shoreline.
Odds get a lot better against aerial spotters (e.g. planes) but that also has mostly been rendered pointless in an era of radar since you anti-radar paint is VERY expensive and you don’t have many options to add the angles that actually make the biggest difference for stealth purposes.
Which is why Dazzle et al were generally the popular approach. You were going to see the ship no matter what, so the point is to make it as hard to get actionable data out of that visual contact as possible. And… once radar and sonar took over there wasn’t even much point to that.