🚢 DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE Makeover For Royal Navy’s HMS TAMAR 

I really like the new/old dazzle camo paint scheme, it's arks back to our naval heritage and make them stand out on the high seas, useful again pirates and illegal fishing trawlers/boats, especially in the Indo-Pacific region where she'll be passing through on a freedom of navigation patrol.

Paint the whole fleet in this please.

Great idea. Not every contact is a radar one, especially against low tech adversaries such as pirates or non-state terrorist groups. In visual encounters this could only help. Plus it looks great.

If anything, the paint job looks cool af, & for that reason alone, we should have all our ships looking this good.

That's a nice paint job

No reason to do it other than it looks awesome...that's all.

That's war paint, very nice! Somehow it brings back music of OMD ...

Looks futuristic yet reminds us of the past

Cutting edge camouflage from WW1

That camouflage is just like on the Visby class ships in the Swedish navy

Looks brilliant.

Would have loved to see what visual effect the dazzle scheme has over distance in slightly overcast weather and high humidity.

Hardly cutting edge when it was used in 1914 - 18 !

Confused as to how this is a worthwhile investment.... given the recent cuts announced via the integrated review

what a great and enduring reassurance this mighty vessel will provide the allies in the region!

Very nice 👌 Jet pack people are finally hear.

Really Cool, the RCN has painted 2 ships in this paint job.

Can we have a WW1 style dazzle camouflage please?

Wow thats a good looking ship

Actually makes it look cool!!! I love it.

If there's no reason not to paint a ship that way, then tax me as much as you want to pay for it. It makes the Royal Navy stand out in this bland world we now live in.👍

Looks incredible and nod to the past, all the ships including carriers should have it

Lovely ship, slightly under-gunned

Very nice, but what the Batch2 River Class ships, HMS Tamar included, need far more is a sensibly effective and significant armament/sensor upgrade programme. Permitting them to realise their innate potential as vessels built from the outset as serious, combat-capable units; NOT as mere OPVs limited to, at most, covert or constabulary operations. Which is why, of course, they've already cost us c£140m per unit as opposed to the c£50m per unit of the baseline commercial design. So time they were enabled to assume the mid-to-high level roles their specifications/build as enhanced survivability combat units and their resulting high cost, all imply (If we need extra OPVs, another 5 units of an updated variant of the Batch1 Rivers will comfortably suffice and can likely be acquired for just c£200m 'the lot') Accordingly, imho the Batch2 ships should be reconfigured NOW as blue/green-water/littoral ops units optimised for protection of merchant traffic and/or service as additional point/local AA/M and ASuW close escorts for amphibious formations (centred around the Albion Class LPDs/2 new LPHs/Bay Class RFAs/projected Littoral Strike Ships etc). I'd suggest the following; 2 x 3cell ExLS for 24 x CAMM Sea Ceptor +T997 Artisan 3D Radar 1 x 57mm Bofors Mk110 2 x 30mm ASCG + LMM 2 x Minigun Telescopic Hangar to permit sustained onboard operation of 1 x AW159 Wildcat HMA2 helicopter (c/w 12.7mm MG + Weapon Wing for either 4 x MBDA Sea Venom / 20 x LMM / 2 x MBDA Sea Venom + 10 x LMM / 2 x Stingray ASW Torpedo) + relevant Soft-kill decoy / jamming installations This would imho convert these excellent but currently very limited (1 x 30mm ASCG) vessels into formidable vessels deployable in a whole range of demanding roles/situations (eg merchant escort through the Strait of Hormuz) against sub-peer but still dangerous opposition or, along with other units, to discharge specific functions within a larger o/a screen, even against peer-level opponents. The RN is one of the ARMED services and its primary role is to protect and extend British interests and influence. Against major opponents if needed and including by resort to deadly force. ALL of its ships should therefore be among the most capable of their respective type and in the case of those designed and built as WARships, be able to kill any enemy that opposes this country in arms in as large a number as can feasibly be enabled. So if anyone wants us to build ships whose principle asset is a great big mission bay for "hoomanitariyun" tasks, capable of stowing 200,000 Teddy-and-Tealight 'solidarity vigil' kits and half a million CDs of 'Kumbaya', then tough titty. Try the Germans, cause most here are not remotely concerned. We do not want to see a vessel armed with one 30mm gun being sent to oppose, say, the mad Iranian theocrats' terrorist guard units' fast attack craft. Or otherwise have to deploy at least a frigate or maybe even send a billion quids-worth of T45, maybe to see her end up playing tag at only a mile range with that or some other 3rd world cesspit's old but still rather heavily armed gunboats. We want something corvette-sized, appropriately affordable, that can free up higher-end units like those frigates and destroyers for more appropriate jobs, but that is still robust enough and with a relevant weapons and sensor fit making it an odds on bet that if challenged/threatened, she and her crew remain overwhelmingly likely to get home in one piece. While having left as MANY terrorists as necessary (or in some circumstances, even as many as possible) floating face down in their wake!

Interesting that it’s relevant today

How long before the civilian population get jetpacks ?

They should have stayed with Sir Peter Scott’s original “Western Approaches” patterns, which were mainly White. White may seem counterintuitive but it worked very well indeed.

Love it. Effective LOS, mean and clean!

It looks sick. Paint them all like that 👍👍👍

it looks menacing!

Is this to confuse French trawlers?..shouldn’t be too hard.

Brexit seems to have unleashed something.

Meanwhile in scandanavia

Cutting edge for 1913.

It appears the Admiralty spends time playing World of Warships. Those paint schemes are quite similar.

Nice job Royal Navy 🇬🇧♥️🇹🇷

yes it looks great

Battle colours ? Looks cool

i think its looks great, wouldn't want our whole fleet done in it thou :) but our OPV yeah make a change from the plan colours.

Amazing how James Bond (007) Sean Connery had already pioneered the jet suit in the 1960's and now the RM Commandos are doing just that. If the dazzle paint is rendered obsolete, why spend money applying it to new ships?

It looks really good but what does it actually do in the 21st century with modern sensors? Presumably at a small additional cost.

lol everyone is talking about the paint but nobody is talking about what a game-changer using these jet packs could be for boarding ships. 😅 Instead of something that could take up to an hour you could board a ship in minutes with a platoon of these things,

Good idea nad timing. But the real punch hides below the surface and the makeup.

SPLINTER CAMO !

Very Cool

Cutting edge.....invented in 1919......slow news day?

Looks like BF4 stuff

Take all the red bit's off and the numbers then the might have camouflage.

somebody's been playing world of warships

So in the absence of stealth profiling , why not use radar absorbent paint /tiles instead ?

you’ll be surprised what camouflage technology is today. look at hyperstealth biotechnology. cutting edge camouflage tech...

This is going to impress the PLA?

One question. How useful is this going to be against weapons that aren’t aimed by the unaided eye, like missiles, or hell, even modern naval guns

Why don't they paint the frigates and destroyers too? At least paint the destroyers as it would make them stand out cool 😎

Roll out to the whole fleet maybe ?

"Cutting edge camouflage from the past", hmmm.

What if it was painted in the paint they do Stealth planes with,,,, and it would reduce is radar signature by I don't know lol but less than it is now, and a few water cannons spraying water over itself maybe with a few microscopic metal fillings to help it go invisible in Radar and Visible spectrum, 👍 just a thought 😉

Future Proves Past.

If the only function is vanity, then there is no function at all. The US Navy introduced camouflage for their sailors and that turned out to be a tremendous waste of time and money. It was an embarrassment.

Why the hell are we painting Spey with the exact same camo... We could have painted it with a diferent scheme.

Should of painted it in the 'Nelson Chequer' to send a message to those uppity French fishermen...

Wanna paint my boat?😉

Did nobody listen to the video? This is a tribute to older ships, it isn't meant to be functional camo, stop moaning about paint on a ship.

Will it fool anti-ship missiles lol

Wait , they called their camouflage paint ' dazzle'?? 🤔 no one seeing the irony here..?

So England has the Lions, Wales has the Dragons, what do Scotland and NI have?

Well, at least they have refrained from painting rainbows and transgender stripes all over the shop, and gender neutral heads!!

jetsuits is plain suicide for sure

Cutting edge?!? 😂😂😂

That is one way to help identify Brits from blipz

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The marines will scare the pants off them pirates with them jet packs i hope they get them b4 the pirates do paint jobs ace dont care how old people think it is camo has always worked ask any serving sniper 😉

Does the Royal Navy know that their job is to protect the UK? It can hardly do that when most of its pathetically sized fleet are sailing thousands of miles from home.

nice paint scheme. Now up gun these ships so they can defend themselves better...

Sorry mates. A mans' Navy covered by a women's crew.

why don't you all just paint them with a giant rainbow flag and a BLM logo on them

That’s a nice paint job