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Re:The story behind China's 'Minecraft' military camouflage by function_seven on Friday March 25, 2016 @04:29PM (#11362462)
You can't be serious with this.

"Hide the ship" means:

    All I see is open ocean, sir!
"Difficult to ascertain its class, speed, and heading" means:

    I don't know what kind of ship that is, sir! Nor do I know
    what direction it's traveling in! Hell, it's hard to see how
    fast it's going as well, sir! But I do know this, sir, there's a
    ship there.
But I think you're smart enough to figure that out.
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Re:The story behind China's 'Minecraft' military camouflage by hackbinary on Friday March 25, 2016 @08:41PM (#11363809)
No, these are all degrees of the same thing, concealment. That is the point of camouflage. There are two main strands to camouflage: 1. prevention of detection (crypsis), 2. look like something else (mimicry).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_camouflage https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/camouflage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

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Re:The story behind China's 'Minecraft' military camouflage by function_seven on Friday March 25, 2016 @09:48PM (#11364067)
Oye. Ok, so the parent comment was this:

> Dazzle wasn't intended to hide the ship but rather make it difficult to ascertain it's class, speed and heading.

Here I am rephrasing it to fit your terms:

> Dazzle wasn't intended to [prevent detection of] the ship but rather make it [look like something else].

But for some reason you chose instead to read that as a contradictory statement?

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