The Iron Brigade’s 400 tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and self-propelled Paladin howitzers are getting the green paint scheme. The 4th Infantry Division’s 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team will be in Europe until September 2017, part of the United States’ regular troop rotations training with NATO allies across the continent. James England of the 1st Battalion’s B Company told the paper. “We basically had intense training event to intense training event, which led to little room for opportunities,” the Capt. From washing a tank or armored fighting vehicle, letting it dry, then painting it and waiting for it dry a second time takes three days, according to the Army Times. It’s a simple enough job to repaint tanks, but it’s simple job that is also very hard. An M-1 Abrams tank with the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment.
This means Russian tank crews, in the event of a clash, will now have to squint a little harder through their scopes.
Army’s Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany that the tanks began receiving a fresh paint job. But it wasn’t until they had settled into the U.S. The 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment added temporary green netting to their tanks. The tanks stuck out, which in the event of a conflict, is the last thing a military should want its machines-and by extension its soldiers-to do. Their appearance was a jarring contrast, since for most of the year, Eastern Europe … is green. But the speed of the deployments, coupled with the crews’ busy schedules, left little time to repaint hundreds of M-1 Abrams still colored in desert tan. American tanks returned to Europe to deter Russian military adventurism in 2014, and the war machines are there to stay.
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