![]() ![]() “This has created a buzz in the armoured community because it shown that really low level innovation can have a massive impact. “It not only increases survivability, it makes the best of community interest around vehicles and around innovation in a way that we wouldn't normally do. Lt Col Page says the new design is not “bumper-sticker vanity”. “That has an effect on the enemy as well.” “It's just like putting stripes on your car as a kid it goes 10 per cent faster,” he said. “It’s like giving the Armoured Corps a new uniform. Major Brunskill agrees, saying interest in the concept has been “phenomenal”. “Never underestimate the impact of heavy armour: what it looks like and what its presence is,” he said. It means enemy drones could expend valuable weapons unnecessarily, or be unable to fire as they cannot understand what they are looking at.ĭavid Willey, curator of the Tank museum, says painting the tank in a modern design that is not “boring standard Nato green” also has a psychological effect on friend and foe alike. Multi-spectral paint schemes and modern technology can confuse drones into thinking the tank is a different vehicle, or even in a slightly different place. However, enemy weapon systems relying on Artificial Intelligence to recognise the visual, thermal or electronic signature of a tank can also be spoofed. Recent experience from the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan shows how vulnerable tanks can be to airborne assets. The resultant camouflage makes it hard for soldiers and drones to recognise what they are seeing. The new design consists of a mixture of pixellated blocks of five colours, with different thermal and infra-red properties. “Once an anti-tank team shows itself and goes through that cycle, if I can add three more seconds to that I can perhaps get a shot off first.” ![]() “If I can delay that targeting cycle, that's a win, because this thing doesn't operate on its own,” says Major Charlie Brunskill. Introducing confusion in man or machine for even a couple of seconds could make the difference between the enemy creating a smoking hull or receiving the business end of 60-tonnes of British Defence policy. ![]()
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