Most modern Navy ships are painted a dull-but-practical “haze gray.” Sailors sometimes quip that they are “haze gray and under way” while on deployment. But the newest ship class in the U.S. fleet is ...

Today's military forces have some of the most sophisticated hardware and crafts the world has seen. From military aircraft ...

During the first and second World Wars it was common for the Navy to paint ships in camouflage patterns. The Navy is reviving that tradition with the first Littoral Combat Ship, the USS Freedom, with ...

USS Freedom (LCS-1) leaves Naval Station San Diego, Calif. on Friday for a new deployment with a new camo paint job, courtesy of Cmdr. Pat Thien and his crew. Thien, commander of the Freedom’s Blue ...

Madisonville resident Carol Olsen has spent her life studying various aspects of marine life, including earning a master’s degree in marine archaeology and pursuing a passion for ship decoration. Yet, ...

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March 9 (UPI) --The shore crab is the most common crab on the coasts of the British Isles. Its color changing abilities help the crab blend in to its surroundings, but new research suggests ship noise ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Experiments in ship camouflage during World War I were necessitated by the inordinate success of German submarines (called "U-boats") in ...

Colour-changing crabs struggle to camouflage themselves when exposed to noise from ships, new research shows. Shore crabs - the most common on UK shores - can change colour to match their surroundings ...

The U.S. Navy could soon receive a new amphibious ship, thanks to the United States Marine Corps. They claimed that this new war vessel could blend in with normal fishing boats. In this handout ...