KNM Skjold
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KNM Skjold
Originally uploaded by Jan Egil Kristiansen.
KNM Skjold “somewhere in the North Atlantic”, en route back from trials with the US Navy.
After they got around to mount the gun, this is probably the fastest warship in the world. (But did we really want to disturb the huge sun bathing platform with a gun turret?) Rumoured to be clocked at 70 knots on some radar. It is supposed to be stealthy, but I hope they use a reflector in peaceful waters. They remove even the door handles to reduce the radar signature.
I have a problem distinguishing computer generated images of this ship from photographs. It does not even seem real when I touch it – it looks and feels like a fibreglass prop in a cheap sci-fi movie.
Significantly, the Royal Norwegian Navy is redecorating its patrol boats from the Norwegian coastal dark olive camo, to this desert pattern. We know where we'll need them.
Notice the square jack versjon of the Norwegian flag, the gjøs, flying at the bow of naval vessels.
Their jamming of my camera was not very successful, but it did leave some vertical striping in the image. I almost got rid of it by applying horizontal blur to the sky.
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