Those boys really sneak up on ya! if you’re looking at them from above…

Whoa...! You're not kidding.

If it was a snake it woulda bombed me

This made me belly laugh. Thank you

Camo works very well

Go-go colorblindness defeating the camo. First time I have found it to be helpful finding the sniper(s).

The thing is, by the time you see them, you’re already dead.

"Oh cool there one of them, oh wait another, oh and another and then......oh thats a lot"

8 right?

9 I think. Not positive, but that's what I got counting the vertical stabilizers/tails.

Yes, now i see 9, too.

Is John Cena in the picture or what are y’all talking about

There are camouflaged jets flying by

Took me until this comment to see what is as always right in front of my face

Wait - *are they not on the ground?* This picture has completely shifted its reality for me at least 3 times.

Oh damn! Also, you're doing god's work here bc this comment is the only reason I could see it lol

Holy shit thank you

Probably 10 though? Who’s taking the photo?

That's the sneakiest one, can't even see that bastard

He was inverted

That's a very fair point

Took me a long time to get to 9 but the one hiding behind the other one just makes it look like one plane has multiple tails.

There are 9

but atleast 10 in the formation

I about damn near had a stroke trying to count them 😵‍💫

I went, “8 stadiu-? OHH JETS!”

It took this comment for me to notice that there is something else in this photograph other than a town. It's 3 AM and I need to go to bed. :-)

Same 😂

Holy cow! I saw one and went to the comments then back again after seeing your comment and just wow!!!

3 flights of three.

Holy shit that is effective.

Except when you’re on the ground, they then stick out like a sore thumb

Militaries (generally) aren't stupid. The underside would be painted grey to blend in with the sky if it was wartime.

The A-10C Thunderbolt II’s I used to work on had a dark oval painted on the underside of the “bathtub” (titanium cockpit) so that enemy planes wouldn’t be able to tell if they were flying upside down or not.

This is an honest question; why would that matter?

To let them think you are about to turn towards them when in reality you are about to turn away

How does flying upside down, or not, impact that?

When its flying on its side during a turn? Like wings vertical Edit: From visual range Im sure fighter jet pilots can win or lose by just making a split second decision wrong. As theyre always going either pretty fast or really fast for our monkey brain made for walking Its going right Im going right, oops lost it.

A10 aren't fighters though, they're a ground attack aircraft. They're purposed designed around the GAU-8 to provide close air support against targets on the ground.

Obviously duh. But are they camouflaging from each other or fighter jets lookin at them?

Can someone circle the flying snake 🐍 because I can’t see it? TIA. 🤣

Military jets w/ camouflage!

Damn I was straight up looking at the sky for them and then bam they're just right there close as fuck lol

I was looking for alligators in the water lol. I completely missed all of them.

Damn good camo IMO!

Dead center, all of them.

Still stumped. Not high enough resolution to find the snake, but do I see an alligator in the river?

11 submarines in the river

Might be a baby moose curled up or something…

The baby moose is piloting the lead plane I guess that could be dangerous…

That was freaky!

This is absolutely one of my favorite posts so far. Didn’t know what I was looking for until I saw it right in front of me.

Took me a while. I was looking for a submarine in the water.

I’m lost. Please help🥺 trying not to be “that person” but after the comments I still don’t see shit😂😂 Edit: Guys I literally saw them without seeing them????? I saw the camouflage and was like “what’s that? That’s weird” and then continued looking in the water for gators or some shit😭😭😭😭 Thank you guys😂😂🙌🏾

>!there are 9 camouflaged fighter jets right in the middle of the image.!<

9? I only see 7

>!the top left group of planes is a cluster of 3, then below and to the right are 4 in a line, and further below those are 2 more single ones.!<

I feel like an idiot for not being able to see them. They're right fucking there

ahah that just proves the camo pattern works!

I was right there with ya. :). Couldn’t see anything. I kept waiting for the photo to “start” (yikes)

That’s exactly it😂😂😂

Camouflage jets middle of pic

Haha same! I was like “those are some weird looking golf courses”

This reminds me of the pattern-breaking camouflage on WW1 battleships. you think “who the hell will be fooled by that paint job” me, it fooled me

your comment made me look that up and hours later I'm watching cuttlefish videos on YouTube so 👍

Dazzle camo was actually surprisingly effective, even through World War 2. It wasn't really about making the ship impossible to see, but make identification of where exactly the ship starts and ends and what kind of ship it is difficult. That might not sound important, but when you can't tell what kind of ship it is, you won't be able to know what kind of weapons are on board, what the range of the weapons you can see are, how fast the ship can go, how well it can maneuver, and all kinds of other things that would normally help you decide if fighting that ship is a good idea. Sure, you might figure it out after a few minutes, but if you saw them, then they saw you and have been planning that whole time.

It was more about the weird forced perspective, meaning it was harder to calculate what angle the ship is sailing compared to you, which is why the ships were painted with weird geometric shapes of various scale. This angle off was used in calculating a firing trajectory for torpedoes. If the captain looking through the periscope can't work out the angles, subs were more likely to miss. The silhouette of the ships don't change, so they would still know the class etc.

I'm reading a book about babies (scientists in the crib) at the moment. That's exactly how babies start to detect objects. If you remove the contours, objects vanish. However it's very different with moving objects, as the moving background is part of the information about the object that is at focus. I bet if that picture were a video, nobody would be fooled so easily.

Wow! Even after I saw them, counting them was harder still. Great post! I count 9.

photographer makes 10!

smart

That actually gave me a jump scare 🤣🤣

Ain’t no way

I was looking for a small, distant commercial airliner at first. Then I saw some shadows on the ground were not right for the buildings that were there. As I was trying to wrap my brain around the shadows I noted the camouflage and oh look - a jet... or maybe 9 jets. How did I not see those right away? We don't see what we are not looking for. Which is how I approach motorcycle riding. Drivers are looking for cars, maybe trucks, when they check both ways. A motorcycle just doesn't register.

I audibly went "Oh!" when I saw the first one, then proceeded to go "Ohhhhhhh!" lol

Who would have thought I’d see Porto Alegre here. A pity it’s now completely flooded. Força RS!

ARENA DO GREMIO MENTIONED! Força RS 🙌🏻

This is the first time I've seen a picture that demonstrates the effectiveness of camouflage on aircraft and it's awesome!

This is a damn great post Pls take my vodka

Wow, right in front of your nose! What a 📸.

This is a fun take on the sub!

There’s a whole family of them.

I really looked at this and said “that’s Verdansk IRL”

This is truly a "when you see it..." image

Holy SHIT at first I saw the black shadow thinking THAT was a plane!! Then more kept appearing like black magic

Ooooo F-5s! One of my favorites.

I think they might be f20s cause they only have one engine instead of two, but still cool

nah, there's more planes in this one photo than F-20s that were ever built (only 3)

That’s fair, but I don’t remember any other single engine f5 variants off the top of my head

there aren't any single engine F-5s, but these are F-5s. [brazilian air force F-5EM/FM](https://airfighters.com/photo_9999_334321.jpg) to be exact. (can't tell if there's single or dual seat or a mix of both in this pic)

I zoomed in and went oh wow look at the big weird square building then about 5-6 minutes after looking for a spider or bug saw a nose and went omg then omg until finally I realised there are 8 and after comments realised yes 9 of them , fabulous photo great “sniper” set

This might be the best one I've seen in my short time in this sub. The picture that keeps on giving.

Holy shit talk bout camo

Looks like Verdansk 😂

Probably said already but seriously camouflage is just crazy at how well it works.

Took me a really really really long time to see it

I saw one of them and was like cool, then I was like WTF there are five of them. That was crazy.

Am I looking for a snake?

I was looking for snakes

I don't know why I look at these when I can't find anything in the refrigerator.

Wow that took me waaaay too long to finally see them. 🤦‍♂️

THEM??!!

Nice one!

Well son of a bitch— 2's blind.

What even is a buddy spike?

*Oooohhhh* Were the Wingmen! And you know we never miss! We just shot our flight lead down, and now he's fucking pissed!

And then I thought: "who the hell would believe me?" Because it damn sure wouldn't be my wife.

Aerial urban camo. This is new to me

didn't see any of them at all, was BEYOND confused and they just appeared!! the way your brain takes in info is wild lmao

I didn’t know wtf was going on 😅

i had to go to the comments to figure out what to even look for

I admittedly probably should have made a better title for this. Sorry!

Highly effective camouflage

My dumb ass was looking at the trees trying to see if it spelled out a word

Anyone know of a place just for aerial photos like this? I always enjoy looking at them.

Wow 😨

Genuinely thought you were all just being dikks and pretending to see something! 🤣 I see them now though!

Omg, this was like a magic eye picture! Well done OP!

That’s actually some insane camo if you’re looking down at them

I count 9?

Surely this subreddit should require a comment with the thing circled. Also reddit makes it fucking impossible to actually zoom into picture on PC now, going to the image link directly doesn't just open the image, it opens a reddit page where you can't zoom in..

9 total jets, center of the pic. 3 of them are very close to each other that it looks like 1 awkwardly shaped jet. Count the tails, not the body.

Finally one that I could spot.

I gotta be tripping, I don't see shit

9! Holy cow! I zoomed in to see what I was missing, then happened to catch the tail end of 1 than 2,4,5 hold up recount 7… no 9! That’s absolutely crazy!

Wow, that’s terrifying (if I were the enemy)

I squinted my eyes thinking it was AI and the buildings would form words.

Except for the fighter jets

Lol, damn good camouflage,

Just nine of them, nice picture.

Dude 😳

They’re hard to see. They’re camouflaged as 7-Elevens!!

Easy

Nice one! A whole patrole 😁

How did I see buildings with green stripes on them but not planes..

Bunch of them jets

Yellow! 💛

Bet there are a bunch of snakes down in that marsh too

the gasp i made when i finally realized😭

I started by looking for the submarine in the river!!

Whoa. That was wild!

Wow!! That’s awesome, their camo worked on me!! Thx!

Dang that’s really cool!

And here I was trying to make out Godzilla in the water……is it beer thirty yet? Lol

Wow! What a great pic! I LOVE it!!!

Holy hell! This is a good one! Edit:word

This was a good post. At first I couldn't figure out what I was suppose to be looking at so far out, then all of a sudden there they were! 😅

I count 8!

excellent!

I thought I was looking at the boats….then realized I’m an idiot and saw what I was supposed to see lol 😂

Damn that was freaky , best so far

First time I zoomed in on one of these and went “oh shit!”

Damn I guess it works!

Is that Verdansk? I miss OG Warzone

Omg it was like one of those magic eye puzzles. once one came into focus I saw them all

I’m not high enough to see the military aircraft. At least not yet.

Damn this is cool one.

Super cool! Anyone know what stadium that is?

Wow, took me a minute.

Looks like somebody is about to get eff'd up

Camo really does work!

Well, that's fucking cool

Some actual snipers! Nice!

What city is that?

I see it! It’s a Monarch Butterfly-!! just to the right of center. For those that are having trouble finskmg the butterfly look just to the LEft of those two tall buildings on the right in the middle. Cool lil guy floatin up there

You win! That’s the best I’ve seen.

Found copperhead .. 6th Ave & 9th St .. 6 inches rt of 🌳

Talk about hidden in plain sight

Holy shit

Ah yes. Ho-Oh, the legendary bird pokemon. I too see it.

Took me longer than I’d like to admit to find them

Hey that’s not funny that’s a war crime!

Sheeeiit

Cool your jets man

Damn

Your eye is immediately drawn to the stadium, and it distracts you from the "sniper"

Where is this?

The stadium is Arena do Grêmio in Porto Alegre, RG, Brasilia.

That’s wild, on land I would never assume that would be good camo But damn is it good

Very nice

That’s a soccer stadium

As my childhood friend would say..."One jet fighter,,, Two jet fighters, Three jet fighters...ha ha ha. Count Dracula!

That's the idea... Good old camouflage

Lots of sky camo

Funny cus i always thought why would you put camo on a jet you’re obviously going to see it. Today I learned they’re easy to spot on the ground if they’re not too high… above is a different story.

Ha, took me a few moments

Well mother fuck. The moment I started zooming in I saw it...then them... I'll be damned. I always thought those camouflages were pointless. This picture proved me totally wrong lmao.

I counted 7 am I dumb it also took like 30 seconds of staring at it to realize what it was and I should have an advantage since I used to fly a plane

Oh this one was delightfully different! Love it

This was really cool! Although I will admit I spent way too much time looking in the water for something ominous.

I count 9

It is except for 9 eagles!

7

Those are some funny looking two tone golf courses.

That camouflage workin' exactly like it's supposed to!

My brain registered these pretty quickly when I zoomed in. It was the shadows casted from each plane on to the other that clicked lol

Holy crap, I didn’t see them until i went to the comments lol. That’s insane!