The UN has just, once again, given the world a large serving of Red Herring. For anyone who might not be familiar with the term, a Red Herring is not a fish. A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question. In this case. it’s talking about the Arab-Israel … More Red Herring at the UN
The ship on the right in the picture can easily be identified as the Russian cruiser ASKOLD. She was unique in having 5 funnels. But the picture seems to show her with contrasting stripes of color amidships. There is no record that I now of showing ASKOLD ever received any such camouflage. So what is … More A Confusing Photograph of a Ship in Camouflage
The Russian Fleet in the Black Sea apparently used camouflage on some of their ships. Other Russian warships of that era, with one exception, did not try to use camouflage.
Many people know that the major naval powers camouflaged their warships in the Second World War. The Russian fleet, however, has received little attention. Possibly because of the nature of the then Communist regime. In any case, here are some examples of camouflage on Soviet ships of that era.
Here are pictures of ships From The Russian Second Pacific Squadron that sailed halfway around the world, only to be destroyed at the battle of Tsushima. Once again, I have omitted sister ships where the models are identical
I once had almost all the warships that fought in the Russo-Japanese War’ The Russians can be divided into sub-groups. The following groups comprised the Russian First Pacific Squadron at the start of the war. Group i are the 2 ships that were at Chemulpo when the war started Group 2 are the cruisers and … More My Models – Russian fleet from Russo-Japanese War
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