Diffused lighting camouflage
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title:
Diffused lighting camouflage
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Diffused lighting camouflage was a form of active camouflage using counter-illumination to enable a ship to match its background, the night sky, that was tested by the Royal Canadian Navy on corvettes during World War II. The principle was discovered by a Canadian professor, Edmund Godfrey Burr, in 1940. It attracted interest because it could help to hide ships from submarines in the Battle of the Atlantic, and the research project began early in 1941. The Royal Navy and the US Navy carried out
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Active camouflage system for Second World War ships
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffused_lighting_camouflage
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2024-02-12T10:07:17Z
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