Chinese infantry fighting vehicles

TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Its radio antenna and the fact that the Germans numbered there tanks in sequence with the command tank always having 01.
Fact is the sophistication of modern come and systems mean that any and every command post vehicle is easy to identify. whether US, German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Israeli, or whoever. But thanks to that sophistication they can stand back from the known line of action and command.
 
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TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Look to both be woodland based. My guess is year of introduction. The older version with the Bloch style the newer version with the paint by numbers Pixilated.
Looking at the pixilated I guess that the Chinese Military is using a wrap rather then a true paint on the camo. I say that based on the fact that the tan and green clusters of blocks look to be in the same specific locations on the front of the two pictured. What this means is that when the vehicle was built it likely went through a primer and paint machine giving it a selected flat base then they layered on it a thin layer of preprinted camouflage screen on a polymer or vinyl adhesive. This is how many corporations mark there fleet vehicles and its also offered for some military applications. It results in a much more professional looking graphic in a much faster time then hand painted.
That all said I don't like it, ateast not how the PLA seems to have done it. First the pattern seems strongly like a simple cut and paste from the uniform print to the vehicle but with larger pixels, this seems kinda foolish. A human is one shape and size where a APC or Tank is generally larger the Aim of camouflage is to break up the outline of the object being camouflaged. This doesn't really seem to do that.
Also unique prints between vehicle would help break patterns the human eye is designed to look for repeated patterns having everything be identical like that helps point them out.
I like that they tried but it just seems more like a vanity choice rather then a practical matter to them.
 
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Colonel
TerraN_EmpirE said:
Looking at the pixilated I guess that the Chinese Military is using a wrap rather then a true paint on the camo. I say that based on the fact that the tan and green clusters of blocks look to be in the same specific locations on the front of the two pictured. What this means is that when the vehicle was built it likely went through a primer and paint machine giving it a selected flat base then they layered on it a thin layer of preprinted camouflage screen on a polymer or vinyl adhesive. This is how many corporations mark there fleet vehicles and its also offered for some military applications. It results in a much more professional looking graphic in a much faster time then hand painted.
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It's also what they do with the patterns on vehicles like police cars and fire trucks. It would simply be too annoying and inconsistent to apply the pattern by hand. How they do it reminds me of those tattoo stickers kids put on their hands.

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Tyrant King
Well mostly, most American Fire Trucks have a very very traditional livery of Red and white with only a small amount of graphics consisting of the fire department name, ladder company and truck number when that happens the graphics are stenciled on with gold leaf. But otherwise you are exactly right. Using a preprinted precut graphics wrap.
These wraps are common commercially and can come in just about any size. Bus lines and Camper makers often use them as well to give you a idea of his how large it can get.
 
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Colonel
TerraN_EmpirE said:
Also unique prints between vehicle would help break patterns the human eye is designed to look for repeated patterns having everything be identical like that helps point them out.
I like that they tried but it just seems more like a vanity choice rather then a practical matter to them.
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If you look at the type 96A thread all their tanks sent to Russia also have exactly the same paint patterns in all the places :p
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/chinese-96-a.t6977/page-17#post-354748
 
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