Why Military Ships are Gray and Icebreakers Red?

2021 ж. 25 Қар.
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There is much more to the color of military ships than meets the eye. Yes, it has to do with visibility, but it's #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs
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  • Also, when was the last time you heard of a zebra being hit by a German torpedo? Exactly.

    @jimsvideos7201@jimsvideos72012 жыл бұрын
    • We should have totally used that line 😅

      @NotWhatYouThink@NotWhatYouThink2 жыл бұрын
    • @@NotWhatYouThink For the 20th anniversary director's cut Blu-Ray be my guest 😄

      @jimsvideos7201@jimsvideos72012 жыл бұрын
    • Well, besides the Type XXI, there was also a secret Wunderwaffe project that would have created land-submarines with land-torpedoes. Once those would have been finished, we would have hit Zebras with torpedoes and sunk them.

      @Schnittertm1@Schnittertm12 жыл бұрын
    • 🤣🤣🤣

      @gryph01@gryph012 жыл бұрын
    • @Cekia Selmi ♋️ no

      @Luthium-hh4ok@Luthium-hh4ok2 жыл бұрын
  • Just a friendly tip/warning: The procedure of submerging a ship to hide it, is in many cases considered single-use technology.

    @pr0xZen@pr0xZen2 жыл бұрын
    • *S I N K*

      @exa0710@exa07102 жыл бұрын
    • That's just scuttlebutt.

      @ryanmartin4602@ryanmartin46022 жыл бұрын
    • Someone used it recently to extinguish a fire on a black sea flagg ship

      @MrCosinuus@MrCosinuus2 жыл бұрын
    • actually, most ships that do this survive, I think most of them got renamed as “submarines” though. Not sure what that means

      @olileoli2788@olileoli27882 жыл бұрын
    • XD

      @MW_Green@MW_Green Жыл бұрын
  • Incebreakers bought the premium pass so they got sick red skin.

    @KRawatXP2003@KRawatXP20032 жыл бұрын
    • ok noob

      @toastedpickles7419@toastedpickles74192 жыл бұрын
    • Lol 1 hour 55 likes

      @mr.randomvideos7033@mr.randomvideos70332 жыл бұрын
    • Well duh

      @MG101@MG1012 жыл бұрын
    • Ah yes War Thunder moment

      @kajmak64bit76@kajmak64bit762 жыл бұрын
    • @@toastedpickles7419 (ಠ_ಠ)

      @officiallyrandom2614@officiallyrandom26142 жыл бұрын
  • After leaving Pearl Harbor, the crew of the USS Seadragon discovered that the black paint was pealing away to reveal the red lead primer underneath in scale like patches. The submarine tender she was docked next to had been hit with a bomb and the heat of the fire had burned off Seadragon's paint. The crew rechristened her "The red dragon" and went on to have a successful patrol, earning enough of a reputation to be mentioned by the Tokyo Rose who complained of "Red pirate submarines". Records don't directly mention the red paint causing any problems with being spotted, but I think I remember reading that they ran deeper than normal just in case. The red dragon's legacy lived on in the cold war era nuclear sub USS Seadragon, whose crew patch at one time displayed a red scaled dragon grasping a torpedo.

    @judahboyd2107@judahboyd21072 жыл бұрын
    • aw they shouldve kept that patch that was so fitting and also had a historical value

      @juntingiee2602@juntingiee26022 жыл бұрын
    • Dragon?

      @fatra1705@fatra17052 жыл бұрын
    • kzhead.info/sun/pZRuYKxvi5iGa58/bejne.html

      @Citieskylines@Citieskylines2 жыл бұрын
    • 69 upvotes . . . Nice!

      @MasterMalrubius@MasterMalrubius2 жыл бұрын
    • @cherry bomb imperial japanese pilot: heuhuehue geneva checklist red cross = target

      @amistrophy@amistrophy2 жыл бұрын
  • These zig-zag patterns were mainly to fool optical ranging systems which relied on a human operator overlaying two images to range a target. These patterns also helped disguise a ship from identification; making it much harder to identify the length of the ship, the depth in the water, number of towers, etc. In modern times with laser range finding and advanced radar there is no longer a need for this pattern on ships.

    @The_Professor_@The_Professor_2 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah,coincidence rangefinders would be rendered less effective because the ship's movement caused the point of coincidence to shift or "shimmer" like here: 5:00

      @thelogician3845@thelogician38452 жыл бұрын
    • Exactly. Optical range-finding would be rendered less effective. + identification of a vessel in an age of electro-mechanical TDCs(Target Data Computer) was often a Critical-failure. even a meter of mast-height difference at combat range would create like 100-meter misses, Easy. Due to Range mis-calcs. Dazzle worked and *Also Increased submarine attack-times*(ie. 'lining up the shot') - Even in good Sub-Simulator Video games: that Dazzle-Camo really DOES mess with my shot calcs half the time!

      @glytchd@glytchd Жыл бұрын
    • Didn't they ID based largely on superstructure, though? Easy to tell class and orientation from masts and smoke stacks....

      @eldonstrackeii7892@eldonstrackeii7892 Жыл бұрын
    • @@eldonstrackeii7892 So yes, identifying what ship you’re looking at is mainly from observing super structure. However the “Dazzle” camouflage style was mainly to address targeting, not necessarily identification of a vessel or class of vessels, with a coincidence optical range finder. I’m sure the dazzle pattern could stump some observers especially at distance.

      @The_Professor_@The_Professor_ Жыл бұрын
    • @@eldonstrackeii7892 Some ships used patterns that made them look like 20% shorter, which is enough to misidentify the ship. Sry can't find pic right off the bat. But imagine a color that blends more into the background and paint the bow with that color and then re-create the bow angle with the edge of that color and the color of the ship's mid section.

      @ecpgieicg@ecpgieicg9 ай бұрын
  • the red paint under the hull has some agent to it that prevents aquatic life from latching onto it, its red typically for tradition since its not the old tin-based paint it used to be.

    @AsbestosMuffins@AsbestosMuffins2 жыл бұрын
    • IIRC, it’s usually copper based now. 🤔

      @darkwinter6028@darkwinter60282 жыл бұрын
    • Yep, anti fouling paint.

      @fooo2241@fooo22412 жыл бұрын
    • Anti-foul can be had in just about any color, and can be specifically blended for different climates, but that would be prohibitively expensive for a blue-water navy.

      @petesheppard1709@petesheppard17092 жыл бұрын
    • So Red makes it go fasta then. Good to know

      @connormclernon26@connormclernon262 жыл бұрын
    • I do not believe there were any tin-based antifouling paints used by the US Navy.

      @somaday2595@somaday25952 жыл бұрын
  • Me, trying to get a range estimate on a zebra through my periscope: Scheiße

    @kylosalvesen@kylosalvesen2 жыл бұрын
    • You must use period correct German. Scheisse

      @jonanderson5137@jonanderson51372 жыл бұрын
  • Ok, if I ever go to war in a navy, I want my ship to be freaking pink to surprise, confuse and scare the crap out of the enemy. By the time they stop wondering why they see a pink ship, my antiship SSMs will be already on their way

    @tamaslapsanszki8744@tamaslapsanszki87442 жыл бұрын
    • That could be risky. There would be some captains that would want to have such and abomination as a pink warship sunk as fast and as quickly as possible and fire all their missiles and torpedoes at you, with the deck gun joining in, too, for good measure. ;)

      @Schnittertm1@Schnittertm12 жыл бұрын
    • antiship ship to ship missiles?

      @user-1281@user-12812 жыл бұрын
    • @@user-1281 war..... war is hell

      @theirishempire4952@theirishempire49522 жыл бұрын
    • @@Schnittertm1 New tatic, we send pink ships with heavy armaments, every enemy fires on the ship and runs out of ammo, plot twist Pink ship is empty and remote controlled and the actual navy pulls up and lets rounds fly

      @theirishempire4952@theirishempire49522 жыл бұрын
    • @@theirishempire4952 But those ships are also just cardboard cutouts. Then, from below the enemy fleet, come the pink submarines.

      @judahboyd2107@judahboyd21072 жыл бұрын
  • This is one of the most consistently entertaining and informative channels on KZhead. You should be very proud.

    @BigStrap@BigStrap2 жыл бұрын
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      @NotWhatYouThink@NotWhatYouThink2 жыл бұрын
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      @Dr.Kay_R@Dr.Kay_R2 жыл бұрын
  • If the best available color to reduce radar signatures we can come up with turns out to only be feasible/effective in neon green or bright shock pink we WILL start painting ships in that as radar is a much bigger threat than merely optical recognition. And with increasing "over the horizon" capabilities to fight anything that might detect you with other means like cameras, sonar and so on, Radar still is the widest forward way to discover an approaching fleet.

    @Ugly_German_Truths@Ugly_German_Truths2 жыл бұрын
    • ... pink ships they've done this give it a google

      @DCfreerunner@DCfreerunner2 жыл бұрын
    • Naval paint does not reduce radar cross section.

      @TT-hd3zi@TT-hd3zi2 жыл бұрын
    • @@TT-hd3zi do you understand what the word "if" means?

      @Ugly_German_Truths@Ugly_German_Truths2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Ugly_German_Truths it wouldn’t happen. Radar Absorbent Material wears far too fast for a naval paint.

      @TT-hd3zi@TT-hd3zi2 жыл бұрын
    • @@TT-hd3zi Which is ABSOLUTELY IRRELEVANT for giving an example in WHAT case we would use CRAZY colors to paint ships.

      @Ugly_German_Truths@Ugly_German_Truths2 жыл бұрын
  • Did you know that Norwegian warships have QR code’s on the bows? It’s so when they return from patrol they can…Scandinavian

    @busch6062@busch60622 жыл бұрын
    • Underrated

      @brendoneliason3622@brendoneliason36222 жыл бұрын
    • Nice... I'm stealing this BTW.

      @ryanmartin4602@ryanmartin46022 жыл бұрын
    • @@ryanmartin4602 wow awesome you are going no likes

      @dabbingraccoons6416@dabbingraccoons64162 жыл бұрын
    • Sounds like a dad joke

      @ppazpppaz8618@ppazpppaz8618 Жыл бұрын
    • Get out of here

      @bruno13532@bruno13532 Жыл бұрын
  • Having almost sailed right by two Swedish military ships that were tied up alongside an island in the Stockholm archipelago (not a harbor or even a dock, just tied up to the rock), I can attest to the effectiveness of their camouflage. These ships were covered with additional camouflage nets but it was absolutely stunning how well it worked-we gasped when we noticed them straight off our starboard side probably less than 200 feet away. We could easily have missed them altogether.

    @neversinkmakes@neversinkmakes2 жыл бұрын
    • and we have blue icebreakers))) look kzhead.info/sun/hKWIct5_iaiChYU/bejne.html

      @russiannorth2440@russiannorth24402 жыл бұрын
    • @@russiannorth2440 don’t you have orange ones too? kzhead.info/sun/aatycpWesKOMZ58/bejne.html

      @neversinkmakes@neversinkmakes2 жыл бұрын
    • @Neversink Makes The visual camouflage is relevant in this situation because the island will also reflect radar so it is possible to blend in among them. It is quite meaningless out at sea where you can radar to spot ships. So for Sweden and other navies that are intended to operate close to the shore camouflage is still useful.

      @target844@target8442 жыл бұрын
    • That's really close to military ships I'd be surprised if they didn't attempt to hail you to avert an closer proximity

      @zitkanaduza.89@zitkanaduza.892 жыл бұрын
    • @@zitkanaduza.89 no, we were passing between islands that are only about 600 feet apart, so it’s not like we were intentionally going close to them. They just happened to be tied up to one of the islands as we were passing in between.

      @neversinkmakes@neversinkmakes2 жыл бұрын
  • The lone patrol got jumped by a whole bunch of dude with ghillies was the funniest thing I saw all day yet 1:18. LOL

    @benton706@benton7062 жыл бұрын
  • So glad to see the RCN getting some love. Didn't know that we were early testers of that light based camo. Really cool

    @Devon7839@Devon78392 жыл бұрын
    • kzhead.info/sun/pZRuYKxvi5iGa58/bejne.html

      @Citieskylines@Citieskylines2 жыл бұрын
    • U.S.S. New Jersey was painted dark blue all through WW2.

      @johnbockelie3899@johnbockelie38992 жыл бұрын
    • Canadians have a bit of a history of being cutting edge. Our CADPAT was revolutionary as well

      @FlightRecorder1@FlightRecorder12 жыл бұрын
    • @@FlightRecorder1 don't have to tell me, I wore it for 12 years and even got to look at the new cadpat recently.

      @Devon7839@Devon78392 жыл бұрын
    • @@Devon7839 The new stuff looks promising. I just hope it comes in a cut that isn't garbage. Or multiple cuts that I can choose from

      @FlightRecorder1@FlightRecorder12 жыл бұрын
  • Idk, I don't think any camo/paint will outdo that destroyer in ww2 that looked like an island to escape japanese waters

    @BluBird12@BluBird122 жыл бұрын
    • "Hey, Shouto, is that island... moving?" "How would an island be able to move?" "I guess you're right..."

      @anonymousapproximation8549@anonymousapproximation85492 жыл бұрын
    • Just saw a video about an island that looked like a ship

      @joeljr570@joeljr5702 жыл бұрын
    • That’s no island!

      @tanmayvijayrajxd7707@tanmayvijayrajxd77072 жыл бұрын
    • @@joeljr570 the camp worked huh

      @javierurena224@javierurena2242 жыл бұрын
    • And germans painting their Battleship Tirpitz as a city

      @okularnik125@okularnik1252 жыл бұрын
  • 15:46 I've never seen anything as Canadian as that painting on the back of the gun.

    @westrim@westrim2 жыл бұрын
    • XD, im not canadia but im glad someone point it out for me !

      @muhazreen@muhazreen2 жыл бұрын
  • As an American, I will shamefully admit we love Canadian maple syrup. Also, I was totally expecting you to do like on the submarine black/cruise ship white video and spend only five seconds on the red icebreakers.

    @rprince418@rprince4182 жыл бұрын
    • I know, we spent so much time on the red icebreakers. Will keep it shorter next time 😅

      @NotWhatYouThink@NotWhatYouThink2 жыл бұрын
    • They have a strategic maple syrup reserve... I think we should liberate them.

      @jed-henrywitkowski6470@jed-henrywitkowski64702 жыл бұрын
    • you should try poutine, way better than maple syrup.

      @cHydrae@cHydrae2 жыл бұрын
    • @@NotWhatYouThink You didn't spend too much time on the ice breakers, but I do wonder why cruise ships are painted white.

      @bristoled93@bristoled932 жыл бұрын
    • @@bristoled93 Probably because white looks "clean"? Also, visibility and reflectivity of most wavelengths of light making climate control in hotter climes easier may be factors

      @MonkeyJedi99@MonkeyJedi992 жыл бұрын
  • Warships are painted grey for a number of reasons that the video covers well, but he did leave one out that was touched on slightly in regards to soviet ships having red decks (sending a political message). Warships are painted grey because everyone knows warships are grey. The governments of the world are telling you, by painting their warships grey, that this ship is something to avoid because we all know warships are battleship grey and are you not to go near them unless you want to be detained or threatened. A ship sailing well away from merchant traffic with a grey paint scheme and a gun on it's bow, everyone knows to stay the hell away from it. That's a warship, there is no mistaking it's a warship and the first indicator you got was it was painted grey. Bugs, amphibians and reptiles tell you they are dangerous with bright colors; warships warn you by being grey. It's a weird bit of circular logic.

    @Battlemage15@Battlemage152 жыл бұрын
    • Probably mostly the big guns more than the paint colour though.

      @brisbaneinsider7139@brisbaneinsider71392 жыл бұрын
    • @@brisbaneinsider7139 The carriers need some emotional support. Same for ships that use missiles as their main armament

      @JonatasAdoM@JonatasAdoM Жыл бұрын
    • Seeing a grey warship sailing in the distance is completely awesome though.

      @JonatasAdoM@JonatasAdoM Жыл бұрын
    • @@brisbaneinsider7139 Modern warships don't have guns/turrets that are particularly noticeable.

      @walterscientist@walterscientist Жыл бұрын
    • .... That's not what circular logic means

      @SporeVenom@SporeVenom Жыл бұрын
  • Bravo! Great story, and even greater humor. You're writers need a high five✋ for this script.

    @John_Be@John_Be2 жыл бұрын
    • Hhh

      @thisandthat5969@thisandthat59692 жыл бұрын
  • Red paint give extra fire damage, gray paint give bonus Evasion stat.

    @anhduc0913@anhduc09132 жыл бұрын
    • Pink give 69% Enemy Morale DMG bonus too XD

      @muhazreen@muhazreen2 жыл бұрын
    • And purple ships are the sneakiest? Ever seen a purple ship before? That's what I thought

      @hazloner117@hazloner1172 жыл бұрын
  • What about the yellow submarine though?

    @eustache_dauger@eustache_dauger2 жыл бұрын
    • She a bloomin research sub at this point-

      @ewelinanajgebauer8862@ewelinanajgebauer88622 жыл бұрын
    • "Hello there, my Beatles!"

      @greateraviationgl91@greateraviationgl912 жыл бұрын
    • @@ewelinanajgebauer8862 which one though? RCN ( Royal Canadian Navy ) has a designated target submarine locally that is usually painted bright yellow.

      @jaquigreenlees@jaquigreenlees2 жыл бұрын
    • @@greateraviationgl91 I've got a hole in me pocket.

      @MonkeyJedi99@MonkeyJedi992 жыл бұрын
    • @@MonkeyJedi99 "Do you really think that im feeling like a Rap God (Rap God)?"

      @greateraviationgl91@greateraviationgl912 жыл бұрын
  • 1:22 they just got done trolling someone and hit em with a fortnight dance lmao

    @core3481@core3481 Жыл бұрын
  • So… They paints the ships in fifty shades of grey?

    @vfr492@vfr4922 жыл бұрын
    • @cherry bomb In the movie, or are you talking about the book? :P

      @vfr492@vfr4922 жыл бұрын
    • @cherry bomb There is alot of things I don't read or watch, but I know about it nevertheless. Also, I rather have humor than being ignorant like others... 😋

      @vfr492@vfr4922 жыл бұрын
  • Yes, Our ships are panted red to symbolize maple leaves because we love maple syrup

    @jcramb6918@jcramb69182 жыл бұрын
    • 😅

      @NotWhatYouThink@NotWhatYouThink2 жыл бұрын
  • You sir are truly a man of culture .

    @manumano3887@manumano38872 жыл бұрын
    • In 19, ahem, 69😂

      @yasharmodaber2183@yasharmodaber21832 жыл бұрын
  • Black is actually a terrible color for camouflage for night, and this had actually been known for centuries. One of the most prominent examples of this was the ninja. While most of their camouflage focused on disguising as the most innocuous of people (religious monks and farmers were two of the most common used), the garb that is most commonly associated with the ninja was actually dark blue instead of black, and it was for the same reasons that the US Navy found during their own testing. Black would not become an effective color for camouflage until the second half of the 20th century, and it would be dependent on one very key criteria: the prevalence of artificial light, specifically electric light. Shadows cast by electric light are significantly darker than that of natural light, thus allowing for black to actually work as camouflage. This is why black is predominantly found in urban camouflage patterns, particularly night ones, as urban areas tend to be filled with electric light, especially at night. Out on the ocean, where there is hardly any electric light (even the lights on ships hardly mattered), black is a rather bad choice - the exact same reasons why the ninja garb was dark blue (shadows from flame sources were still more-or-less natural and therefore not as dark as with electric sources).

    @DavidRichardson153@DavidRichardson1532 жыл бұрын
    • then what is the best color for camouflage at sea? Gray? For example, yesterday I swam through the ice on a blue icebreaker. Look. kzhead.info/sun/hKWIct5_iaiChYU/bejne.html

      @russiannorth2440@russiannorth24402 жыл бұрын
    • @@russiannorth2440 Submarine is the best camouflage color at sea. Barring that, distance that puts you over the horizon, then a compromise color like grey.

      @MonkeyJedi99@MonkeyJedi992 жыл бұрын
  • My favourite camouflage story is that of HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, which was disguised as a tropical island to escape the Japanese occupation of Surabaya in 1941. It survived the war, and is now a museum ship located in Den Helder. It's well worth a visit... if you can find it...!!!

    @kevinhaynes9091@kevinhaynes90912 жыл бұрын
    • and where to find this ship-island? and yesterday I sailed on a ship through the ice. Look kzhead.info/sun/hKWIct5_iaiChYU/bejne.html

      @russiannorth2440@russiannorth24402 жыл бұрын
    • @@russiannorth2440 Fantastic video. It looks beautiful, but vey cold. I've subscribed. Dutch Navy Museum 52°57′50″N 04°46′15″E

      @kevinhaynes9091@kevinhaynes90912 жыл бұрын
  • Up until around 15 years ago, haze gray was the standard paint for superstructure coating over primed steel. One of the specs was MIL-PRF-2463B Type II Class 2 Enamel, color standard Fed std 595B #26270. This is an anti-static silicone alkyd marine paint whose reflective properties were promoted for lowering HVAC cooling requirements more that for reducing the ship's IR signature. The silicone increased the paint's surface hardness and uV resistance and thus overall life. Application was similar to standard alkyd enamel paint. This has been replaced by haze gray epoxy siloxane block copolymer coating/ paint for its effectiveness against salt corrosion. Off the radar of Not What You Think's camouflage motif topic, but still on naval coatings, is bilge tanks coatings. One coating system uses an 18 mil dry thickness epoxy primer with a fluorescent additive. This is topped with another coat of epoxy paint, and followed by inspection using a uV lamp to reveal pinholes. Any pinholes are covered by additional paint. This has extended the protective coating by years.

    @somaday2595@somaday25952 жыл бұрын
    • Thanks for the amazing information!

      @MonkeyJedi99@MonkeyJedi992 жыл бұрын
  • Minor point: The US really has only one heavy polar ice breaker, USCGC Polar Star. Her sister, USCGC Polar Sea, is not in service. There is a second active USCG ice breaker, USCGC Healy, but it is classified as a medium ice breaker. Thanks for your in-depth analysis of naval paint schemes - I learned a lot from it. MM2

    @kurtpena5462@kurtpena54622 жыл бұрын
    • That said, Healy is a larger - and cooler - ship.

      @jasonalbert6251@jasonalbert62512 жыл бұрын
  • Omg I didn't realise the Greeks recorded the trojan horse!

    @TheLordHiggs@TheLordHiggs2 жыл бұрын
    • 😅

      @NotWhatYouThink@NotWhatYouThink2 жыл бұрын
  • Today on "Not what you think": why are ice breakers red? exactly for the obvious reason (contrast to snow) why are battleships gray? exactly for the obvious reason (minimal contrast to most conditions) why is dazzle camo not used anymore? exactly for the obvious reason (radar) Still very entertaining.

    @LordMardur@LordMardur2 жыл бұрын
  • Military: no visibilty please ;) Icebreakers: LOOK GUYS I'M HERE RESCUE ME!!

    @just_violet@just_violet2 жыл бұрын
  • Dazzle was also used to prevent sighting from enemy warships. Gun sights needed to create a consistent image and dazzle could confuse the sighters of the guns

    @LegendaryCollektor@LegendaryCollektor2 жыл бұрын
    • Hence why is used in woman fashion

      @diviningrod2671@diviningrod26712 жыл бұрын
  • One day, someone will paint their battleship red and become the first battleship ace

    @balloon3503@balloon35032 жыл бұрын
    • I take it you have never heard about Booster Terrik and his ship, The Errant Venture?

      @Grubnar@Grubnar2 жыл бұрын
  • HMS Tamar recently got painted in ‘dazzle’ along with HMS Severn painted in ‘Wester Approaches’ in tribute to the WW1 and WW2 Royal navy campaigns. As well, HMS Dragon got the Welsh dragon repainted on its bow. However useless they may be they look absolutely amazing

    @jude_the_apostle@jude_the_apostle2 жыл бұрын
    • yeah, I thought he'd at least give them a mention.

      @TheGreg6466@TheGreg64662 жыл бұрын
  • 19- ahem… 69. Keeping it sophisticated. 🧐

    @--INDIGO--@--INDIGO--2 жыл бұрын
    • Donno what you're talking about! Just had to clear my throat after all that talking 😜

      @NotWhatYouThink@NotWhatYouThink2 жыл бұрын
    • @@NotWhatYouThink it's just not what we think

      @ipant1056@ipant10562 жыл бұрын
  • Even during surface gunnery (from big guns at the horizon to closer in visual sighting) and aerial bombing and gunnery, dazzle, false bow wakes and false silhouette works to throw them off. Of course in good conditions it doesn't make a difference, but but any marginal visibility conditions, it helps by making it harder to focus accurately. Just like camouflage on uniforms, you try to deceive the connection between the eye and judgement regarding your shape, facing, speed, distance, etc. See also false canopies on plane undersides. I saw a light plane that was painted like a firefighter or target drone or trainer in bright red, white and black, but seen from the right side, all the red was switched for a bright green, to help others judge your facing and course. Like navigation lights on ships and planes: From their right you should see green, and red only from their left. Bright white light only from the front. It makes sense for icebreakers to settle on a high visibility standard.

    @JFrazer4303@JFrazer43032 жыл бұрын
  • 13:13 silence

    @theeguy458@theeguy4582 жыл бұрын
  • My great grandfather served on the ship at 12:17. She is docked at a port in Hamilton Ontario.

    @AceOfDeath69@AceOfDeath692 жыл бұрын
  • I think they should combine water blue and haze gray for optimal protection Water blue - the top of ships Haze gray - everywhere else

    @Boypogikami132@Boypogikami1322 жыл бұрын
    • Light blue or white - part that are expected to be submerged.

      @zidniafifamani2378@zidniafifamani23782 жыл бұрын
    • @Zidni Afif Amani Submerged part will stay red because it cheapper for antifouling paint and it's not visible, even submarines will spot above the water not beneath.

      @bremc666@bremc666 Жыл бұрын
  • I've always been amazed by the dazzle camouflage. I painted one of my Glock slides like that and it looks crazy cool

    @mrPauljacob@mrPauljacob2 жыл бұрын
  • Pretty simple answer really, visibility. You can hardly see a white or grey ship in the attic but if it’s a brighter color it easy to see from a distance

    @skeletonsmokingacigar3829@skeletonsmokingacigar38292 жыл бұрын
  • "The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."

    @hamentaschen@hamentaschen2 жыл бұрын
  • Can we all take a minute to appreciate this channel, it's so interesting tbh

    @reapertidetm2226@reapertidetm22262 жыл бұрын
  • Man, I've been around boats most of my life. I drive across the lake at night all the time and am used to having to rely on nothing but running lights to avoid other craft on the water. So that's why my jaw dropped at 2:05 when I realised i didn't see "reverse your runing light colors" coming. That's so simple yet so damn devious.

    @maxk4324@maxk43242 жыл бұрын
    • and also probably very dangerous

      @jimskywaker4345@jimskywaker4345 Жыл бұрын
  • Loving these longer videos. Always interesting and make me want more faster

    @ipant1056@ipant10562 жыл бұрын
  • i dont need to watch a 20 minute video to understand something that can be explained with a single sentence

    @localdrugseller6431@localdrugseller64312 жыл бұрын
  • Really enjoying the long format videos! Though I really enjoy the shorts as well.

    @joep8520@joep85202 жыл бұрын
  • Ah yes the lengthy video, thanks NWYT

    @cybersentient4758@cybersentient47582 жыл бұрын
    • Every Friday 😉

      @NotWhatYouThink@NotWhatYouThink2 жыл бұрын
    • @@NotWhatYouThink yea but where I live it's Saturday lol

      @cybersentient4758@cybersentient47582 жыл бұрын
    • @@cybersentient4758 Ha ha noob

      @monsieurmig8969@monsieurmig89692 жыл бұрын
  • Had an old school chief on my sub who used to say "all ships are submarines, it's just the real badass combat ships can come back up." 😅 then again, he used to call all the skimmers "targets".

    @scubasteve2169@scubasteve21692 жыл бұрын
  • With the Icebreakers,it makes sense why being painted white made it harder to see. Water alone has a good score on reflectivity index, ice has an even higher score. Added with the fact that shades of white tends to reflect radiation/light better, and you can see why it was hard to spot. Red generally tends to stand out in a white/bright backdrop, and happens to be the most visible color on the spectrum over long distances.

    @WT.....@WT.....2 жыл бұрын
  • For anyone who is interested the boat at 9:36 is the Mersey Ferry in Liverpool (as in the song). It was painted in dazzle colours in 2015.

    @TheMightyKinkle@TheMightyKinkle2 жыл бұрын
    • Thank you

      @user-cd4bx6uq1y@user-cd4bx6uq1y9 ай бұрын
  • This channel after a year is already over a million. And its quickly becoming a favorite.

    @orneryokinawan4529@orneryokinawan45292 жыл бұрын
  • A genuinely interesting and informative video. I’d use this for teaching material, if I were a teacher. Great work!

    @smoketinytom@smoketinytom2 жыл бұрын
  • "Its not what you think." It's exactly what I thought.

    @raylop80731@raylop807312 жыл бұрын
  • 3.00 "all warfare is based on deception" -sun tzu, the art of war

    @tristanlassche3560@tristanlassche35602 жыл бұрын
  • Poor Hans got his shit beaten by four bush wookies

    @Celominho@Celominho2 жыл бұрын
  • By the way, the movie about the pink submarine is called 'Operation Petticoat' (I think, it's been a few years). It's a great movie.

    @sleepyancient6655@sleepyancient66552 жыл бұрын
  • best channel out their to learn about random military info, Love the videos and this channel, keep it up!!

    @stin428@stin4282 жыл бұрын
  • i was working in the shipyards in victoria BC canada when they painted the regina... when they unveiled it to the public there was alot of positive response

    @Krasher247@Krasher2472 жыл бұрын
  • Soon ships would be able to "Cloak" . They would have technology which would allow them to take colors ( mid - battle) with respect to their surroundings.

    @arshaam@arshaam2 жыл бұрын
    • what is this technology? watch me float through the ice at -24 kzhead.info/sun/hKWIct5_iaiChYU/bejne.html

      @russiannorth2440@russiannorth24402 жыл бұрын
  • So they should cover the entire ship with huge LED panel to change the color on demand LOL

    @live8dog@live8dog2 жыл бұрын
  • There are many ship camofladge because there are 50 shades of gray

    @Orenju11@Orenju112 жыл бұрын
  • The whimsical music is perfect for this topic.

    @dannypipewrench533@dannypipewrench5332 жыл бұрын
  • NWYT's content is more educational and interesting than my school semester

    @Duvstep910@Duvstep9102 жыл бұрын
    • It’s more interesting and educational than you think. ..

      @Frank_White-KoNY@Frank_White-KoNY2 жыл бұрын
    • So I guess it's not what you think?

      @ipant1056@ipant10562 жыл бұрын
  • Still waiting for the day I can say that it was why I thought

    @Root3264@Root32642 жыл бұрын
  • Before i start watchin a video: Battleships: its camo to hide from enemy (black n white stripers and all of that kind are not to hide the ship but the size of a ship (if u dont understand just look for video about ship camo or something idk its too long to write) Icebreakers: need to be seen cuz even icebreaker can be stuck in ice so it can be found easier to help

    @Snicshavo@Snicshavo2 жыл бұрын
  • Remember my Dad's friend telling me when he was in the army that they were coming up for a paint job for one of the stealth fighters they were trying to try to put that paint on one of the ships to see if it'll actually match the horizon so they can't see it it'll change with the horizon whether it's day or night time

    @yourefriendlyneighborhoodbuddy@yourefriendlyneighborhoodbuddy2 жыл бұрын
  • They should make a glass ship because it's invisible to the enemy ships

    @TheYassersData@TheYassersData2 жыл бұрын
    • Talk about a glass cannon

      @fatra1705@fatra17052 жыл бұрын
    • The last thing an enemy wants to see is Jack wiping his arse in the f'w'd heads...

      @flym0@flym02 жыл бұрын
    • @@flym0 that's not realistic, there wouldn't be enough paper to wipe and enough room in the toilet to shit. Jack would be shitting in the shower and waffle stomping it down the drain.

      @daveforeel7976@daveforeel79762 жыл бұрын
    • @@daveforeel7976 we are discussing Jack and not Royal. Horrible, crayon munching things...

      @flym0@flym02 жыл бұрын
  • Great video! A lot of information I didn't know.

    @jaspersjoint7433@jaspersjoint74332 жыл бұрын
  • Most ships are painted red below the waterline. This used to be because of the "red lead" paint used to keep marine life off the hull. After lead was phased out (waaaay later than you think) they kept the red color as it was a good indicator of when the ship was running a shallow draft. They will occasionally paint a different color at the waterline to indicate operable limits for deep and shallow draft.

    @absolutechaos13@absolutechaos132 жыл бұрын
  • Schooling fish usually have vertical stripes on their sides which helps them to stay together. Zebra stripes are probably for a similar reason.

    @MartianLivesMatter@MartianLivesMatter2 жыл бұрын
  • 12:20 ah, yes. I know exactly what we need. RGB LED lit WARSHIPS. RGB improves the performance of everything.

    @vincentzhi9555@vincentzhi95552 жыл бұрын
    • Red paint do make things go faster

      @Groza_Dallocort@Groza_Dallocort2 жыл бұрын
  • you see, theyre looking for the grey ships, not the bright orange ships

    @zerotwoizmywaifu5312@zerotwoizmywaifu53122 жыл бұрын
  • "after much soul searching, we've all been there." You got me off guard with that one😂

    @saymyname3611@saymyname36112 жыл бұрын
  • The L02 HMAS Canberra is a beautiful Australian ship, glad to see her in the video. I saw her in the port of Townsville a few years ago, many times before that aswell.

    @lamdog1490@lamdog14902 жыл бұрын
  • Quite a few aerial reconnaissance planes in WW2 - mostly Spitfires I think - were painted pink for the same reasons.

    @simonabunker@simonabunker2 жыл бұрын
    • Dawn missions.

      @JFrazer4303@JFrazer43032 жыл бұрын
  • Interesting video with a lot of cool ships! I have a question from connected topic. While watching different videos about military I noticed frames from inside of different transports: from helicopters and planes to APC and MARVs. Or even landing ships, as it was shown in this video. Al of them has specific colored light inside, from red (you can see it in this video in part about pink ships) to strange green-blue. It's obvious that is not just for fun but for specific purpose. What purpose? I know that for example red light doesn't defect eye-adaptation to darkness and you can easily act under cover of the night after leaving red-lighted space. Fans of astronomy use it. Does it connect with usage such lights inside transport ships?

    @alexandermenschmaschine5361@alexandermenschmaschine53612 жыл бұрын
    • Those colors are night vision equipment or scotopic vision compatible. There are very specific wavelengths to operate with a few types of night vision equipment.

      @1boobtube@1boobtube2 жыл бұрын
  • My late father served on the USS Lloyd apd 63 and that ship was painted in cool looking jungle colors, because they would be camouflaged against the neighboring islands in the Philippines. His ship would put Army personnel onto the beaches in the first waves.

    @richtomlinson7090@richtomlinson7090 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm glad this channel blew up some cool stuff you make videos about

    @TwinbornMist@TwinbornMist2 жыл бұрын
  • While we're on the subject of uniforms.. why do our sailors wear bell bottoms? Because that extra material acts in the same manner as flippers.. and they're really tight fitting to reduce drag and extra weight when water logged.. it's not because they're stuck in the 70s lol.

    @FINNIUSORION@FINNIUSORION2 жыл бұрын
    • Tradition...originally so sailors could roll their trousers up while swabbing or holystoning decks.

      @petesheppard1709@petesheppard17092 жыл бұрын
    • Yes, but why are they white? For practical purposes that seems to me to be an incredibly stupid choice of color.

      @MelbaOzzie@MelbaOzzie2 жыл бұрын
    • Usn stopped using bell bottoms years ago.

      @josephpadula2283@josephpadula2283 Жыл бұрын
  • Very cool. It wasn’t what I thought

    @contentcreationlabs2803@contentcreationlabs28032 жыл бұрын
  • Love seeing a new video from yall in my notifications

    @The_Masked_Frenchman@The_Masked_Frenchman2 жыл бұрын
  • Those dazzle designs are like how car manufacturers hide their new models

    @kisumiri@kisumiri2 жыл бұрын
  • 3:14 I play world of warships and I can confirm the answer is yes

    @dogwithhat947@dogwithhat9472 жыл бұрын
  • Its poeticly ironic that France coined the term during a war they entered into wareing red trousers and blue jackets in the early years. They quickly learnt from that mistake.

    @flatcapfiddle@flatcapfiddle2 жыл бұрын
  • More new info to store in my brain thanks

    @ethanhein5489@ethanhein54892 жыл бұрын
  • This is the best channel on KZhead by far the stories are interesting and knowledgeable keep up the great work

    @alltransjay7438@alltransjay74382 жыл бұрын
  • Military vehicles mist be hidden according to air,land and sea conditions and icebreakers must also be easily visible in snow and ice.☺

    @ceyhununnotas279@ceyhununnotas2792 жыл бұрын
  • Whoever designs these ships totally lacks any imagination at all. Why not just paint them clear?

    @colorado841@colorado8412 жыл бұрын
    • CIA : You are too dangerous to be let alive **Bang!**

      @muhazreen@muhazreen2 жыл бұрын
  • 4 am videos recomendations hits diferent, this one is amazing

    @mongecabeludo1018@mongecabeludo10182 жыл бұрын
  • I wish you explained why hulls are always red even on grey ships. I think people would find that fascinating

    @thegooniverse495@thegooniverse495 Жыл бұрын
  • Regina rhyme with retina :D

    @artamrein9276@artamrein92762 жыл бұрын
  • *Side Note:-* Lord Mountbatten's Pink ships were so effective in controlling British Colonies that he became the _last_ Viceroy of India.

    @Dr.Kay_R@Dr.Kay_R2 жыл бұрын
    • Another side note: Mountbatten was said to engage in some rather "unusual" sex*ual activities. So painting his ships pink would be him having an ironic joke.

      @MelbaOzzie@MelbaOzzie2 жыл бұрын
  • love your channel i just love the "funny" jokes you keep cracking

    @juntingiee2602@juntingiee26022 жыл бұрын
  • Love the humor along the info❤️

    @Sawer@Sawer2 жыл бұрын
  • Dazzle confuses me the most

    @emka2129@emka21292 жыл бұрын
  • The answer is simple Navies do not want people to sue their ships They want people to see icebreakers

    @jamesricker3997@jamesricker39972 жыл бұрын
  • I love how he said the pink submarine as a reference to the yellow submarine song

    @Niklas0318@Niklas03182 жыл бұрын
  • you can also use shape changing tv screens that change shape when seeing radar waves and it would only cost as much as the warship but it cant be destroyed

    @randomthings7898@randomthings789810 ай бұрын
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