Digital Camo on warships?

Hi,

I’m looking for photos of the Visby Stealth Class Corvette of the Sweeden Navy, with the markings on the flight deck.

In the following link 4x Visby Stealth Class Corvette can be seen, but the markings on the flight deck are not cleary visible:

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/44515/view/?service=1

You hit the Jackpot on this one old friend, a quick scan around also showed a Sub (A-17 type) in dock. The reason you can’t see the deck markings on the other three Visby class is because they are yet to enter service in this pic- you can clearly see one still being fitted out. As for Visby herself, she seems to be undergoing refit which ties in with what I heard about her- apparently she isn’t doing so well and the RSwN have requested the builders to fix various problems before they take on any more of the class.

Hi,

I’m looking for photos of the Visby Stealth Class Corvette of the Sweeden Navy, with the markings on the flight deck.

In the following link 4x Visby Stealth Class Corvette can be seen, but the markings on the flight deck are not cleary visible:

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/44515/view/?service=1

I’m building a Visby Stealth Class Corvette from L’Arsenal at 1/700 and I need this information in order to complete my model…

Can anybody help me?

thanks in advance
Ayala Botto
Lisbon, Portugal

Well, sorry to bump up this topic, but reading this got me thinking. The “digital camo” on warships which can be seen on a lot of littoral combat craft nowadays seems to be descending directly from WWI & WWII “Dazzle Painting”

i must admit i was thinking of the belfast and the dazzle camo scheme while looking at/reading this thread.

Well, sorry to bump up this topic, but reading this got me thinking. The “digital camo” on warships which can be seen on a lot of littoral combat craft nowadays seems to be descending directly from WWI & WWII “Dazzle Painting”, meaning it has no other use that to ‘break’ the overall lines of the ship, making it hard to spot with the naked eye, so that accurate distance, type and size are not easy to determine (especially for submarines). Combined with a reduced Radar Cross Section and heat signature (i.e. stealth features), this will make the ship very deadly for any adversary. You don’t know what’s coming until it’s to late (in case of an attack destroyer) or you’re pretty safe (in case of a small patrol or special forces boat).

Anyway, I too like the Type-060 Destroyer. Very advanced design, although the number of missiles were confusing. I assumed the 72x anti-aircraft and 24x cruise missiles would have been in seperate launchers, but now I see that you used 12 (rotating?) 8-missile VLS systems for all. That makes me wonder what the big abgled surfaces near the aft deck and helo-pad are. Just structure I guess. But they could also (converted to) be launch systems for large anti-shipping missiles (like used on the Russian Slava class cruisers). If you have any more views of this ship, and possibly more specs let me know!!

BTW, first post on this forum, been a long time ‘lurker’. 😎

Hi,

more photos of Indonesian Parchim Class Corvettes:

http://aryadhieva.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/35/61?xurl=http%3A%2F%2Faryadhieva.multiply.com%2Fphotos%2Falbum%2F35%2FMilitary_Naval_Power_of_Indonesian_Navy%2361

http://aryadhieva.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/35/1?xurl=http%3A%2F%2Faryadhieva.multiply.com%2Fphotos%2Falbum%2F35%2FMilitary_Naval_Power_of_Indonesian_Navy%231

http://aryadhieva.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/35/56?xurl=http%3A%2F%2Faryadhieva.multiply.com%2Fphotos%2Falbum%2F35%2FMilitary_Naval_Power_of_Indonesian_Navy%2356

regards
Ayala Botto
Lisbon, Portugal

Hi,

do you know the colour deck of the Parchims class Corvette?
Indonesia operates Parchim-I Project 133.1 or Parchim-II Project 133.1M class corvettes?
Do you have any idea of the colour references used on Indonesia Parchims?

BTW Parchim-I and Parchim-II are produced by Kombrig at 1/700 scale.
http://kombrig.homestead.com/Distribution.html

thanks in advance
Ayala Botto
Lisbon, Portugal

the deck is very very very dark grey– almost black…
If I could find the old mag about it ill put a photo here….

Hey, just found this on the BGV website, interesting designn for lightweight LCS type role:

Very interesting design and when you read about, that is one fast ship! France should have gone with this instead of the FREMM 🙂

—–JT—–

Indonesia operates Parchim-I Project 133.1 or Parchim-II Project 133.1M class corvettes?

All Parchim’s were orginally DDR orgins. It was a DDRs awnser to produce MPK type of ship similar in size as Soviet Grisha class. In DDR it replaced in production the previous Hai-I/II/III class design which was more of SO1 gathecory. In effect Parchims were stripped down Grishas, they lacked the complex OSA-M SAM system which IMO was bit overkill for Grishas anyway. The orginal patch of 16 Parchim-I were mented for the volskmarine but in order to boost the DDR shipbuilding Soviets ordered addtional set of Parchim-II for their own fleet.

Parchim-II differences for the orginal design by having AK-176 in place of AK-725 and AK-630 in place of Ak-230. Also the radar set is uprgated. Soviet Baltic fleet was the sole user of Parchim-II and the DDR Parchim-Is were all sold to Indonesia.

more on my nation parchim 😀

Hi,

do you know the colour deck of the Parchims class Corvette?
Indonesia operates Parchim-I Project 133.1 or Parchim-II Project 133.1M class corvettes?
Do you have any idea of the colour references used on Indonesia Parchims?

BTW Parchim-I and Parchim-II are produced by Kombrig at 1/700 scale.
http://kombrig.homestead.com/Distribution.html

thanks in advance
Ayala Botto
Lisbon, Portugal

more on my nation parchim 😀

Digital Camo makes sense on fast attack craft and (very) small corvettes that operate close into the coast. The whole concept is to move quickly out of the radar clutter of the coast lob off some anti ship missiles and quickly fade away, this kind of mission profile means they will operate within visual range of their prey so anything to make them harder to see will help.

Anything larger that operates in open seas then frankly it isn’t worth the effort. The main issue is to reduce their radar and IR footprint and digital camo isn’t going to help that. Also its far cheaper to slap on and maintain some plain grey paint on a large vessel.

Indonesia’s Parchims sport an interesting Camo but can’t find any pics on Google 🙁

Here you go, mate..

Nice trimaran design. Would this be your proposal for a future Chinese destroyer?

—–JT—–

sort of, proposal would be the wrong word. It’s designed around Chinese systems just because it stems from a discussion on SinoDefence forum. The design itself is heavily influenced by various European thinking (VosperT’s designs, FREEM/HORIZON etc). The hull is actually after a proposed French idea (BGV), but with a Chinese Type-022 “look” to the outrigger.

Hey, just found this on the BGV website, interesting designn for lightweight LCS type role:

Another example of splinter camo 🙂

Nice trimaran design. Would this be your proposal for a future Chinese destroyer?

—–JT—–

But would pixelised camo be effective against EO devises?

The camo have to be in such a way that it has to break the outline of the ship. That means the darker portions must reach all the way to the border outline of the ship, and the camo has be drawn in broad swaths.

The second requirement is that no two ships have identical camo designs. Each ship must have a unique camo design.

The Type 060 destroyer is very intresting did you come up with it yourself?:eek:

I don’t think the splinter pattern is “digital”. Or is it?

Fins

Like the Swedes and the Norwegians, the Fins use a digital camo on their Hamina Class Attack Craft.