#warroomba

Mon Jun 2 23:58:43 2025 (*097dfbf6*):: This practical war punk aesthetic has been emerging since the early days of 2014 in donbass. I predict it will replace cyberpunk as the default futurist aesthetic as the world starts looking more like mad max https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1929441122876567676 *** :military_helmet:MilitaryNewsUA:flag-ua: (@front_ukrainian) on X *** :exclamation::ru:Russians have begun installing metal wires on tanks for protection *** X (formerly Twitter) (*4cfb807c*):: What’s the tactic on this? It screws up the drone propellers and prevents a more direct impact explosion? (*097dfbf6*):: yeah the drones have to be like physically touching the armor to be effective. If they’re even a few feet away they can’t penetrate. Also it messes up some of the auto targeting for tank shapes like razzle dazzle 🙂 (*4cfb807c*):: Thats a very creative and low-fi, cheap tactic to thwart drones (*4cfb807c*):: Very interesting (*b387b012*):: smart (*097dfbf6*):: Kind of reminds me of this strategy from 100 years ago given evolving war tech. This aesthetic is so weird but cool. Almost anachronistic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage *** Dazzle camouflage *** Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a type of ship camouflage that was 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, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it consisted of complex patterns of geometric shapes in contrasting colours interrupting and intersecting each other. Unlike other forms of camouflage, the intention of dazzle is not to conceal but to make it difficult to estimate a target’s range, speed, and heading. Norman Wilkinson explained in 1919 that he had intended dazzle primarily to mislead the enemy about a ship’s course and so cause them to take up a poor firing position. Dazzle was adopted by the Admiralty in the UK, and then by the United States Navy. Each ship’s dazzle pattern was unique to avoid making classes of ships instantly recognisable to the enemy. The result was that a profusion of dazzle schemes was tried, and the evidence for their success was, at best, mixed. So many factors were involved that it was impossible to determine which were important, and whether any of the colour schemes were effective. Experiments were carried out on aircraft in both World Wars with little success. Dazzle attracted the notice of artists such as Picasso, who claimed that Cubists like himself had invented it. Edward Wadsworth, who supervised the camouflaging of over 2,000 ships during the First World War, painted a series of canvases of dazzle ships after the war, based on his wartime work. Arthur Lismer similarly painted a series of dazzle ship canvases. (*b387b012*):: +public!