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WW1 experimental camouflage sniper's suit using the concept of "dazzle." Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, was a family of ship camouflage used extensively in World War I.
See, you guys are stupid. They're going to be looking for army guys.
they're just lucky the world was black and white back then so it's easier for him to blend in
What am I looking at here? It's just a wall
A moment later:
is there more info about this as troop camo? Admittedly I didn't look very hard, but the only things I could find were references to naval ships and planes.
None I could find. I'd have posted if I had. I presume it didn't work as well on people for obvious reasons.
Weird finding, thanks for sharing regardless.
The flies will never find him.
I get that reference.
I don't...
A zebra's stripes keep flies away. It messes with the fly's brain and they can't navigate properly to land on the zebra.
Did not know that thanks!
SNIPERS! Give em the dazzle dazzle!
Give 'em the ol' razzle dazzle
So how well did it work? I can't imagine it working well when it's on land, distances are less, you know the size of humans, speed and heading are not factors, anything else?
"The concept is so be so bright and flashy, it literally blinds the sniper."
I thought the idea of dazzle was to obscure your direction and shape for targeting torpedos and large guns with a long flight time. It seems like it'd be less than useless where you don't need to account for the motion of the target like on a person.
It works well for zebras, who travel in herds. Their stripe pattern, similar to dazzle, makes it difficult to differentiate individuals from the group and isolate a single one. For an army in marching formation, or otherwise on the move in a group, it could serve to make it difficult to tell exactly how many soldiers are in your group. But it isn't going to work as classic "camo", of course, nobody is going to not see you.