The British Royal Navy's submarines were being painted navy blue as part of a camouflage experiment aimed at finding out which will be the best colour for the vessels in future, the UK Ministry of Defence announced Tuesday. During their 105 years as part of the Royal Navy's fleet, most submarines have been painted black. Now nuclear submarine "HMS Torbay," based at Devonport, in south-west England, has become the first of the underwater fleet to sport the new blue colour scheme.A Ministry of Defence spokesman said "This is an ongoing process of improvement, and if that means submarines will be less visible to the eye as a result, then all the better." Black paintwork created a "harder outline" and was more easily spotted, he added. Submarines have been painted other colours in the past. Two of the fleet were painted sandy-brown and green-black at the time of the Gulf War to liberate Kuwait in 1991.
| Where do we text our votes? Navy blue is so somber! Surely a nice cerulean blue would be a little more calming, more...peaceful even. |