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Title: Name This...(877)
Post by: brady on September 18, 2004, 10:23:56 AM

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(http://www.myphotodrive.com//uploads/686_175.jpg)

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Post by: Scherf on September 18, 2004, 10:57:14 AM

The starboard wing of a pre-war training aircraft.

Cheers,

Scherf

Title: Name This...(877)
Post by: Charon on September 18, 2004, 11:33:30 AM

USS Drayton, Mahan Class

Trying out "Blue Beetle" camoflage.

Charon

Title: Name This...(877)
Post by: storch on September 18, 2004, 11:41:05 AM

Yup USS Drayton DD366 during the "Pearl Harbor Experiments" trying out the Sapphire Blue horizontal surface paint 13 Feb 1942.

Title: Name This...(877)
Post by: Nilsen on September 18, 2004, 04:22:58 PM

its a type 88 UFO over the second turret on the USS Destroyer

Title: Name This...(877)
Post by: brady on September 19, 2004, 02:12:42 PM

USS Drayton, it is:)

Title: Name This...(877)
Post by: Halo on September 19, 2004, 09:10:22 PM

Only problem with all that pretty ship blue on blue is the stark white wake.  Might not matter so much nowadays with all the fancy detection equipment, but first person to invent wakeless warship still might do well patentwise.  

Then again, surely contemporary stealth ship development includes some sort of wake suppression?

Title: Name This...(877)
Post by: Charon on September 19, 2004, 09:29:49 PM

Good point Halo. A lot of camo on warships was desighend to make it harder to estimate size, distance and speed (not reduce detection) but the blue would seem to be a detection approach. It does blend in from the air, but the wake gives it away (at least from the air). Maybe it worked somewhat better from another ship at a greater distance, or maybe not. Ships stayed gray.

Charon