Just a strange, maybe odd question, but what happens to the markings on vehicles such as tanks and other armoured vehicles after the parade??? All too often parades in nations such as Russia, China, India etc. show some lovely camo’ jobs on their armoured vehicles (such as the digital patterns on the Chinese tanks and APC’s paraded in Beijing (???) recently. Then, when photos emerge of these vehicles in use in local conflicts or on excercise it is back to the drab olive green or similar colours.
Do they not have any use on the battlefield and are just for show?
By: TonyT - 12th May 2011 at 12:11
Well in the RAF it was used as good houskeeping, a VC10 would be polished up and all the interior redone for a royal flight, afterwards it could be doing freight, so you are keeping the fleet at a standard by doing it… I would imagine the army is the same, they would be painted etc then go back to normal service, but it keeps the fleet at a standard…. either that or they ae using the war reserve, we used to have buildings full of new Landies in Germany that would do a run out every month or so, then go back into storage in case we ever went to war
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April 14, 2011 at 2:59 pm