HMS Tamar, a Royal Navy Offshore Patrol vessel, has been given a makeover.
The vessel arrived in Falmouth at the start of April for a maintenance period, she’s now back in the water.
The ships Twitter account posted an image of the vessel sporting ‘Dazzle camouflage’.
A new look for @hms_tamar. ‘Dazzle’ was first used by the @RoyalNavy in 1917 to counter the threat from U-Boats. Different schemes were widely implemented throughout the Fleet. We are really proud of this design and its historical links, hope you like it! 🦁⚓️🇬🇧#RoyalNavy #Dazzle pic.twitter.com/35EYCuaQjp
— HMS Tamar (@hms_tamar) April 27, 2021
Dazzle camouflage was a family of ship camouflage used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards.
Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, it consists of complex patterns of geometric shapes in contrasting colours, interrupting and intersecting each other.
bound for Jutland?
Love it
Looks nice, is she off on a Gulf deployment?
Forward deployment to the Far East I believe
Like it, should be used more often!
need a lot of Humbrol for QE or POW!
Looks impressive! Similar to the Visby class.
https://www.naval-technology.com/projects/visby/
It gives her a menacing look.
Good God I Love it.
Looks very cool Daniele, pimp my boat!
Oh Lordy Lord!
Gets tissues out! 😜
Hah!
Cool, must have unlocked the new skin for the vessel after some levelling up, or maybe they got it in a loot box?
Superb!!!!!
Looks good but who are we hiding an OPV from?
is this ever likely to help with any missiles or just with mark 1 eyeball? DO we have any paints that return/absorb different radar signatures to help with missiles?
Might help for future missiles that rely on AI / image recognition to get a lock instead of other more traditional jammable homing missile methods
M@
Looks really smart.
Is that for real or just CG fake news. Modern RN vessels are surely only painted in shades of Admiralty Grey? Changes the complete look of the ship including breaking up its sleek lines.
Beats ‘Pusser’s Grey’ any day of the week!!!😂😂
I hope I’m not being too pedantic, but it’s more akin to modern Swedish camouflage than dazzle. The latter was much more outlandish and dramatic in breaking up the shape as an attempt to confuse U-Boat captains (as in the picture of HMS Argus) and much brighter colours were originally used.
The clue’s in the name.
Very good indeed.
Looks really nice have to say!
Begs the question …. “is there a direct threat to our OPVs from U-boats now then?”. Does this mean an ASW sonar, anti-sub missile and Wildcat upgrade in the offing for our OPV fleet? Sorry, couldn’t resist, most articles about the OPV fleet on here usually end up with some comment about how they’re under-armed etc …. Would be interested in know what prompted this new colour scheme though, purely commemorative or a more purposeful function? Maybe if the Tamar is going up against RADAR-less Iranian fast patrol boats it’ll serve a genuine purpose?
Seems to me that they are intended to dazzle French fishermen.
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Looks great wonder if it catches on to bigger Types one day 👍
I imagine its a test for camo in littoral warfare. Might be applied to LSS and Type 31/32 in future.
Great to see.