Talk:AIF/@comment-10905876-20140909144530

AIF tropic islands, northern shore-

Returning from their arctic drills are the battleships IKN Intrepid, and IKN Majestic. Both are a little ice damaged, and both carry odd paint jobs, but they are fully combat ready, being unharmed by the Prometheus invasion. With them is the data collected by their tests.

The reported findings are these: visual identification with arctic dazzle was reduced in effectiveness by 20%, thermal signatures from ships covered in ice was difficult to observe, and was sufficiently masked by the ice coating. Ships were able to hide themselves in fjords created by gaps in the ice sheet, allowing them to hide from radar as well. It is estimated that an entire fleet could be hidden in these arctic conditions, and a test of the effectiveness of flying ships is planned.

Due to the poor state of the rest of the IKN, Admiral Hodston has chosen Intrepid as his temporary flagship.