The 4th submarine division of the US Atlantic Fleet was chosen to see if there was any merit to the idea.
He postulated that a ship painted with blocks of various colors would appear to blend into background when seen from a distance. One of the theories of perception that was examined in those experiments was that of American artist William Mackay. The United States also took an interest and conducted experiments in order to better protect her submarines from visual detection. Both German and British submarines received some form of deceptive or disruptive camouflage during that war. Faster speeds meant that a submarine might have to return to the surface sooner and lose the cloak of invisibility that was so important for it to carry out operational missions.īy the time submarines had proved themselves a formidable weapon in the First World War the problem of concealment while on the surface was already a major concern.
In the era when underwater power was derived from electric storage batteries submarines had to conserve energy. Most of the time they operated on the surface. But the submerged endurance of early submarines was quite limited. After all, the very fact that submarines go beneath the water gives them an important measure of invisibility. It seems a bit strange to discuss camouflage for submarines. Portside view of the K-2 (SS-33) off Pensacola, Florida on 12 April, 1916, underway with "zebra" camoflouge.
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