Hey!!! PINK! was MY idea! LOL! ;D I suggested not too long ago to someone on chat earlier this year- I think Fred was there too- that someone paint the Leopard on the RMC grounds bright pink. > Hehehe...
Hey!!! PINK! was MY idea! LOL! ;D I suggested not too long ago to someone on chat earlier this year- I think Fred was there too- that someone paint the Leopard on the RMC grounds bright pink. > Hehehe...
I've got a question. Regarding the colour of paint on vehicles in Afghanistan, why are they green? There are plenty of photos from Afghanistan before the move to Kabul where armoured vehicles are all tan, and not from the dirt everywheres. Is there a reason the LAVs and Bisons et al over there now aren't coloured like that anymore? Now its all switched around: The CADPAT is arid, but now the vehicles are green.
Hey!!! PINK! was MY idea! LOL! ;D I suggested not too long ago to someone on chat earlier this year- I think Fred was there too- that someone paint the Leopard on the RMC grounds bright pink. > Hehehe...
There are plenty of photos from Afghanistan before the move to Kabul where armoured vehicles are all tan, and not from the dirt everywheres. Is there a reason the LAVs and Bisons et al over there now aren't coloured like that anymore?
Having been there, I can assure you that after a few hours out of the wire the vehicles still look big and green, though now clearly dirty with some large tan areas
Panzertech said:
I think they will stay the colour that they are for two reasons 1. The Canadian government is too cheap to spring for any paint.
I suspect it has little to do with cost and a lot to do with nobody wanting the hassle of dealing with CARC paint.
Tan paint probably would give better camouflage in many parts of the country, though there are many green spots that our troops are fighting in. In addition to visible spectrum, arid CARC provides improved camouflage in non-visible spectrums. Finally, when solar loading & internal heat is a problem for many of our vehicles, Arid paint would provide a means to reduce solar loading (like driving a white car as opposed to a black one in summer).
But, applying an arid CARC paint would likely compete with manpower resources required to uparmour vehicles before we send them over. Additionally, it would add to the work time (so a vehicle becomes unavailable to both operational & training users longer).
Now that you mention it, we came back from Christmas leave in January 2002 to find our Coyotes painted sand. The add-on armour was added in-theatre after we deployed to KAF in Feb 2002 - I don't remember if it came over 'sand' in the crates or was sprayed by our techs.
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