Those U-boats will never be able to determine the bearing of that stairwell.
I sure can’t.
This is exactly what they used to do to boats to camouflage them.
Not so much hide the ship as make it extremely difficult to spit direction of travel and range-find. Skills very much required to place feet on stair-treads.
Came into the comment section looking for a dazzle camo reference and was not disappointed.
Wait, how is this camouflage? I can clearly still see the ship.
Dazzle Camo isn’t to hide the ship, per say. It’s to make it much harder to tell which way the ship is facing, and therefore what its heading is.
Not only that, the broken lines can also make it somewhat difficult to get an accurate range using an (optical) coincidence rangefinder (where you have to align two half images to determine the range to an object) as commonly used on many warships for aiming the guns back then.
I see, thanks for the clarification.
It also probably didn’t work. The Allies were assuming that the Germans were using the same rangefinders we were in WWI. The Germans were using a more advanced rangefinder that doesn’t have any problems with “Razzle Dazzle” camo.
The rangefinders on surface warships were different indeed (Germany used stereoscopic instruments, while the Allies preferred the coincidence type), but the other purpose of confusing a submarine, which can’t have such fancy rangefinding equipment due to the limitations of having to look through a periscope, which can’t incorporate coincidence nor stereoscopic rangefinders due to its small size, did work somewhat better. However, at the short distances involved in WW1 submarine warfare, it is debatable whether the inaccuracies induced by the dazzle camouflage were large enough to ensure a miss with anything but exceptionally fast ships.
Safest people here are blind
Are they selling/making medical supplies in that building?
