30 Times Things Blended With Their Surroundings Too Good

Units need to move, fire their weapons and perform other tasks to keep functional, some of which run counter to camouflage.Camouflage may be dropped altogether. Late in the Second World War, the USAAF abandoned camouflage paint for some aircraft to lure enemy fighters to attack, while in the Cold War, some aircraft similarly flew with polished metal skins, to reduce drag and weight, or to reduce vulnerability to radiation from nuclear weapons.