The British Royal Navy was the undisputed champion of the seas until World War I when the German naval submarines entered the fray. To evade the deadly submarines, the Brits considered a handful ...

Jonathan: Yeah, so that was inspired by this thing called dazzle camouflage. There was a marine ... sharp geometric pattern broke up where the ship was heading. And it sort of also has this ...

They created hundreds of unique camouflage patterns. One of the camouflaged vessels was the small warship HMS M33, here at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. She has been restored to her dazzle scheme.

A multidisciplinary team published an analysis of the dazzle camouflage patterns deployed on ships during World War 1. And Japanese researchers found a nano-switch mechanism controlled by a single ...

That’s the idea behind motion dazzle, a century-old hypothesis about why some animals sport high-contrast patterns. Unlike camouflage, which allows prey to blend into surroundings, motion dazzle ...

New patrol ship HMS Tamar will head to the Asia-Pacific region with a dazzle camouflage paint scheme An "iconic" paint scheme has been applied to a Royal Navy ship for the first time since World ...

It must be hard to keep an eye on the ball when faced with a riot of animal print." If the flamboyant pattern is indeed a distraction to opponents, it doesn't seem to be a significant one.