Posted by Guy (Ut) on Sunday, February 04, 2001 at 2:59AM :
In Reply to: Re: Cammo pattern for M880 posted by Barefoot Jaime on Sunday, February 04, 2001 at 1:08AM :
Jaime,
I looked at the new pics of your M880 on your web site. Are you sure you have the three color NATO pattern? Check it against the pattern on the web site I mentioned previously. I've seen M880's that had the NATO pattern and they matched up pretty closely to the spec. When I looked at your truck pics, it looked to me like a blend of the two. You have the two shades of green(light and dark tree green,) black, and a mud brown. That's four colors, not three like the NATO pattern. It looks like the mud brown maybe there on yours in place of the sand brown. I think that what happened to a lot of these trucks was that if they were kept in service after the NATO pattern was adopted that when they were repainted the change was made to the NATO pattern. If the truck was never repainted during its service life, then it would retain the old faded four color scheme. Such was the case with my M880. I'm thinking of repainting the NATO pattern, besides I can't find anything on the old four color scheme. Believe it or not, I think the three color pattern works better than the original four color pattern. This is probably why the Army switched. That, and also an effort to standardize with other NATO Allies. (ex. ammo: NATO 7.62X51, NATO 5.56X?, etc.) I think that the four color pattern didn't use enough contrast between light and dark, very little black paint realtive to green. Compare this with the NATO pattern that includes a LOT of black. This contrast helps to break up the vehicle silouette and hinders identification of vehicles and equipment by aircraft flying overhead.
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