The result was that a profusion of dazzle schemes was tried, and the evidence for their success was at best mixed. Each ship's dazzle pattern was unique to avoid making classes of ships instantly recognisable to the enemy. Norman Wilkinson explained in 1919 that dazzle was intended more to mislead the enemy as to the correct position to take up than actually to miss his shot when firing.ĭazzle was adopted by the British Admiralty and the U.S. Unlike some other forms of camouflage, dazzle works not by offering concealment but by making it difficult to estimate a target's range, speed and heading. Credited to artist Norman Wilkinson, it consisted of complex patterns of geometric shapes in contrasting colours, interrupting and intersecting each other.
USS West Mahomet in dazzle camouflage, 1918ĭazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle or dazzle painting, was a family of ship camouflage used extensively in World War I and to a lesser extent in World War II.
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