This could start a trend.

Why don't they paint Jaws on the bow like you'd do with Aircraft? Open mouth full of sharp teeth, maybe the eyes...

How long untill we see a yellow one?

And a pink one?

Warning: Punks aboard!

Xabbarus,if you saw Tragalgar at the fleet review last summer,she had the same mod.The crew covered it up once the sky news helicopter had flown past and televised it to millions!

Looks to me it's only on the port side of the fin. But, what about the two 'speed bumps' on the hull supersructure, both sides?

well, time will tell... but if you look up at that snorkeling 688 in the pic above, there's no way that painting it blue or red or pink or brown is gonna hide that in those water conditions... to me this seems like somone in the blue paint industry is related to the MOD... at least dazzle paint was shown to be effective... but even that didn't last...

yeah, now you're talkin... that lil addition to the side of the sail is indeed noteworthy... and definitely of more interest than the new fashions the subs'll be wearing... i've got no idea of what it might be... an addition to the super sonar suite... something to do with littoral ops and detection of the new generation of quiet diesels ?

i dunno...

--Mike

I was pondering that myself...maybe an upgrade to the lateral sonar?

I wonder how the mod will affect performance?More drag and disrupted flow around the sail=less speed,more of a pitching moment in turns?

All have already been done :up: (and i dont mean for films or songs either)

Plus other colours tooo.....

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/769/camsubs3sm.jpg

Like this?

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0863202.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0842311.jpg
(Grrrr... just copy and paste that link. I'm too lazy to upload it someplace else...)

Do you mean these?

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/lesrae/sub3(sun).jpg

If so then they're not new - all of the boats have them, they're related to the cooling system as I remember it.

Another example:

http://www.baesystems.com/programmes...es/15hires.jpg

*Stares at the pic* Are those Obies? :huh:

:up: :up:

Both along side in HMS Dolphin (or what was :nope: :nope: )

i think its a good idea, even when moderatly deep during daylight the traditional black sub is visible, so if blue is better at disguising the sub then so be it.and unless the paint is luminescent it still wont be visible at night.

they are built to be unnoticed and deadly not to win design contests.

trying something new :up:

Wait there are two there! I didn't notice the one to the right, damn that S*hit works! :rotfl:

Wasn't those repaints done for the 1st Gulf War in 91? :hmm: