US armored vehicles "dress" in European camouflage

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American troops stationed in Germany are adapting their armored vehicles to combat operations in Europe. The beginning of the transition to the camouflage system Barracuda MCS (mobile camouflage system) from the Swedish company Saab, put the 2 th cavalry regiment of the US Army, reports "Warspot" with reference to the portal defensenews.com


Stryker armored personnel carriers in MCS camouflage


The first to receive a new camouflage system were the Stryker armored personnel carriers from the 2 Cavalry Regiment of the US Army stationed in Filsaccus (Bavaria). Barracuda MCS camouflage for “Striker" is a relief camouflage fabric with elements of green and brown colors of various shades.

New camouflage masks technology in the optical and infrared spectra. In addition, Barracuda partially hides cars from radar, and can also be equipped with a system that reduces visibility for thermal imagers. According to the US military command, the troops have already received four sets of new camouflage, and in the next two months it will be tested. If the camouflage system meets the requirements of the military, then a significant number of Barracuda MCS kits will be purchased for American armored vehicles.

Barracuda MCS camouflage is a multi-layer modular system that can be easily mounted on armored vehicles. If necessary, it can be dismantled or changed to a similar masking with a different color. According to Scott Caldwell, head of the Barracuda division at Saab, the first sets were provided to the Americans for free. If the experience of using Swedish camouflage is successful, then Saab will be able to produce Barracuda MCS for other models of American military equipment.

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  1. +13
    13 May 2017 13: 38
    American troops stationed in Germany are adapting their armored vehicles to combat operations in Europe.


    And why would it? against who? , not hard to guess.
    1. +20
      13 May 2017 13: 41
      US armored vehicles "dress" in European camouflage

      Well, what other camouflage should the equipment in Europe wear? Not in the desert.
      1. +9
        13 May 2017 13: 46
        Both Victor - my respect! hi drinks It’s a pity, I didn’t have time to wedge between you - I would make a wish. lol
        Quote: cniza
        And why would it? against who? , not hard to guess.

        Well, definitely not with the Antarctic penguins. Yes
        Quote: Monos
        Well, what other camouflage should the equipment in Europe wear? Not in the desert.

        How in what? LGBT camouflage - that’s it! wassat
        1. +3
          13 May 2017 13: 51
          Quote: bouncyhunter
          It’s a pity, I didn’t have time to wedge between you - I would make a wish.

          Hello Pasha hi laughing Make a guess!
          Quote: bouncyhunter
          How in what? LGBT camouflage - that’s it!

          Fu Fu Fu....
          1. +5
            13 May 2017 13: 54
            Quote: Monos
            Fu Fu Fu....

            For tolerant mattresses - just right! good
            1. +13
              13 May 2017 15: 02
              Ha, and we repaint the woods in blue and the grass in white .. laughing Joke of course smile
              1. +7
                13 May 2017 15: 08
                Ha, and we will repaint the forests in blue

                then in yellow ... wink
                1. +2
                  13 May 2017 15: 48
                  no in yellow only for easter smile
                  1. +6
                    13 May 2017 15: 54
                    Quote: Rich
                    no in yellow only for easter smile

                    what are you talking about, Dmitry? for Easter red and only red !!!! but I think they will not agree to this in life .... wink
        2. +2
          13 May 2017 15: 45
          How in what? LGBT camouflage - that’s it! wassat

          No, here’s the Belarusian camouflage from newspapers, that's it! I advise you to try the “cover” of toilet paper, you will be pioneers in the art of camouflage laughing
          1. +6
            13 May 2017 15: 48
            Oh, here comes the Polish well-wisher! hi
            Quote: Explorer
            I also advise you to try a "cloak" of toilet paper, you will be pioneers in the art of camouflage

            Well, where can we keep up with you? It’s you - Europe, and we, outback.
            1. 0
              13 May 2017 15: 52
              Yes, for free I give this idea away. Environmentally friendly in all respects ...
        3. Waf
          +1
          14 May 2017 08: 22
          Quote: bouncyhunter
          LGBT camouflage - that’s it!

          A very wise remark ...
      2. +8
        13 May 2017 13: 54
        Hello, Victor! Can they try the arctic? Ours will be better seen "partners"!
        1. +12
          13 May 2017 14: 33
          Good Zen, Alexander smile “Arctic” “partners” usually fail. He is not happy for them.
          1. +7
            13 May 2017 14: 48
            Ha ha ha But it’s warmer in it, agree!
      3. +8
        13 May 2017 14: 06
        it happened in our area

        autumn 1941 - Rommel was supposed to send the 5th Panzer Division to help! But the 5th Panzer Division was on the Eastern Front in October 1941. It was attached to the XXXXVI tank corps (4th Panzer Group, Army Group Center), and was involved in fierce battles on the approaches to Moscow (where its tanks were first painted in desert camouflage).
        met them sincerely!
      4. +6
        13 May 2017 14: 21
        Not well, if in Geyropeisky - then why not rainbow coloring love
      5. +3
        13 May 2017 14: 30
        Quote: Monos
        Well, what other camouflage should the equipment in Europe wear? Not in the desert.

        Actors and sets must match laughing Otherwise, as Stanislavsky would say ... Trump, in addition to being a burnt-up comedian, is also a showman and actor. Merkel-like olands themselves sang about the Russian threat, here you get protection for your money, you are Frau 350 ... Also, the Japanese are not happy with Una missiles, but there are holey complexes, but here's the score ... So it became much more fun. The director of the world reality show is very creative smile
      6. +2
        13 May 2017 14: 31
        And the Americans scare all Euro-suckers ... then they will repaint the equipment, then they will find a Russian boat in some lake smile .... well, why not? evrolohi pay everything out of your pocket laughing
        1. 0
          13 May 2017 14: 36
          the tolerant can see such a life as Okudzhava sang "everyone chooses for himself ..."
        2. +5
          13 May 2017 14: 38
          then in some lake a Russian boat will be found
          found dill in the steppes of Ukraine, but here in the lake - she lives there laughing
      7. +3
        13 May 2017 14: 49
        Quote: Monos
        US armored vehicles "dress" in European camouflage

        Well, what other camouflage should the equipment in Europe wear? Not in the desert.

        Of course not. Only if necessary, nothing can prevent the tailwind, carry the fire of a forest fall into the depths of the enemy’s defense, when their green "shirt" will no longer match the surrounding color scheme. We’re sleeping on a hair dryer, and then we will carry out reforestation. The benefit of seedlings in our taiga is enough for three Europe without bald spots.
        It seemed interesting to me to use the experience of hunters of fishermen with a bird trap (from 1m 56 s. Roller) to camouflage a fighter with ATGM. Swedes, those are still hunters. I wonder who Saab unfastened the fee for using the idea of ​​an automatic trap?
        1. +4
          13 May 2017 15: 20
          Quote: Nyrobsky
          It seemed interesting to me to use the experience of hunters of fishers with a bird trap (with 1m 56 s.rolika), for camouflage a fighter with ATGM.

          There are MANPADS. And what, nafik, MANPADS in the forest? Although, of course, it is possible to use for ATGMs.
          But as I understand it, each set is individual for technology. There is no universality. It turns out that for each new modification you need to make your own kit. Camouflage will also be written off along with the equipment. Dolce Gabana somehow turns out.
          1. +2
            13 May 2017 16: 51
            Quote: Monos
            There are MANPADS. And what, nafik, MANPADS in the forest? Although, of course, it is possible to use for ATGMs.

            This is clear. I wonder how they plan to use this hat. Oversized + mechanical construction. It is problematic to haul it assembly over forests and coppices. Need assembly in place. The place must be defined accordingly as the "place of the likely attack of the enemy", and it may become so that the direction of the attack changes. After the babah, one must change the position. It is clear that a destroyed tank costs millions, and such a “hat” is at best thousands, but nonetheless, its use as a shelter in a wooded area is unpromising. In short, a one-time "hat". But to get such a crap for goose hunting - yes! It’s worth confusing that you would do something like this and reach the swamp, and then use it stationary on a goose flight every year. Now I’ll break my head, how to implement these things from 8mm wire, springs and masks. what After all, such a system (but small) has long been known, and they did not dare to increase it to the size of an arrow.
            1. +5
              13 May 2017 17: 09
              Quote: Nyrobsky
              Now I’m going to break my head how to implement these things from 8mm wire, springs and masks.

              But is it necessary to move apart? You can’t shoot a hole? I myself am not a hunter. Once they just took me to woodcock. There - yes, the sector is important! It hurts too fast they fly!
      8. 0
        13 May 2017 14: 57
        Before dressing - study the experience of the winter campaigns of Napoleon 1812 and the Third Reich from winter 1941 to May 9, 1945
    2. +11
      13 May 2017 13: 43
      Of course it’s not hard to guess, they’ll go to fight with igil. Not with us, we are partners.
      1. +6
        13 May 2017 13: 45
        US armored vehicles "dress" in European camouflage

        Everything is very simple: in Russia they meet on clothes ... smile
        1. +12
          13 May 2017 13: 48
          Hello Sasha ! hi drinks
          Quote: СРЦ П-15
          Everything is very simple: in Russia they meet on clothes ...

          And they are escorting their feet forward. Yes
          1. +4
            13 May 2017 13: 51
            Hello Pasha! hi drinks
            Quote: bouncyhunter
            And they are escorting their feet forward.

            And sometimes without legs. am
            1. +7
              13 May 2017 13: 53
              Quote: SRC P-15
              And sometimes without legs. am

              Well, Sanya, there’s going to be a volley from Tornado-G ... wassat
            2. +2
              13 May 2017 14: 53
              Quote: SRC P-15
              Hello Pasha! hi drinks
              Quote: bouncyhunter
              And they are escorting their feet forward.

              And sometimes without legs. am

              Well, then the shell from the shells, with berets stretched over them, we put it anyway. Maybe in the next world, the color will change to flesh.
              Some kind of black humor has gone. It's time to throw positive on the site recourse
              1. +4
                13 May 2017 15: 11
                Quote: Nyrobsky
                Some kind of black humor has gone. It's time to throw positive on the site

                No, Dima - nothing to do with black humor. We simply remind all lovers to pry on a visit without an old proverb: "Whoever comes to us with a sword will shout and get it!" . lol
          2. +11
            13 May 2017 13: 59
            Quote: bouncyhunter
            And escort your feet forward

            And this is someone like "lucky"
            1. +5
              13 May 2017 15: 24
              Konstantin, howdy there! love great picture !!!!
          3. +4
            13 May 2017 15: 53
            SRC P-15: Everything is very simple: in Russia they meet on clothes ...
            bouncyhunter: And escort your feet forward.

    3. +5
      13 May 2017 13: 47
      Well, in principle, it’s stupid to drive around in forests and fields in desert camouflage.
      1. +8
        13 May 2017 14: 02
        Judging by the fact that the cloak is not just camouflage, but also reduces visibility in for radars and thermal imagers - the thing is not bad and very useful. In which case, after analyzing the signals, you can immediately say specifically - ETA American tank - the watering has not yet dissolved.
    4. 0
      13 May 2017 14: 57
      Great fixture! And to any theater of war!
      1. +2
        13 May 2017 16: 58
        xetai9977: Great device! And to any theater of war!




    5. Waf
      0
      14 May 2017 08: 20
      Quote: cniza
      And why would it? against who? , not hard to guess.

      It would be surprising if they, being in Germany, painted their equipment in desert camouflage! laughing
  2. +8
    13 May 2017 14: 02
    A very interesting system of camouflage, as I read for it on the Internet ... it's a pity that ours in this sense are behind, we only learn about the developments of our scientists .... and then everything is silence ..... and constant shabby paint our technology is already annoying
  3. +1
    13 May 2017 14: 07
    It will help ........... ?????????? ........... If yes, then only in the hunt for wild boar in our Latvian forests .... .....
    1. +1
      13 May 2017 15: 14
      Quote: KIBL
      It will help ........... ?????????? ........... If yes, then only in the hunt for wild boar in our Latvian forests .... .....

      So there you have, it seems like an African distemper went through the boars. Like the stock of wild hryunov completely collapsed and it is necessary to fence the fence, so that the bacilli carriers from neighboring regions, having violated the rules of crossing the border, did not infect the remains?
      1. +5
        13 May 2017 16: 03
        so for mattress friends all the best - even a boar, even a plague laughing
  4. +7
    13 May 2017 14: 24
    Will help?
    I would not say that the Americans had bad camouflage in Iraq ..........
    1. +5
      13 May 2017 14: 40
      So who didn’t hide - they are not to blame for the children wassat
    2. Waf
      +3
      14 May 2017 13: 44
      Quote: APASUS
      I would not say that the Americans had bad camouflage in Iraq .....

      And the Iraqis have a good one! wink
  5. +2
    13 May 2017 14: 26
    The idea is not bad. Reducing visibility for thermal imagers is especially useful. The only inconvenience is that for each type of equipment the kit is individual. I hope ours are doing something similar.
    1. +1
      13 May 2017 15: 17
      I hope that if there is a need for perforated colored paper, Russian industry will produce in sufficient quantities. soldier
      1. +5
        13 May 2017 16: 04
        and we won’t be able to fight without toilet paper like NATO recourse
        1. +1
          14 May 2017 14: 41
          The essence of the masking technique is that the object is covered with perforated masking elements located at angles to each other. Radiations from a masked object repeatedly reflecting and refracting blur the image, and heat dissipates over a large surface area and mixes with the flows of ambient air.
    2. +1
      14 May 2017 08: 19
      Quote: barclay
      I hope ours are doing something similar

      It seems that they are only engaged in something about special successes that are not heard. A couple of years ago, somewhere in Europe, they bought camouflage nets. What for? In general, the idea of ​​camouflage by the Swedes is very robust. It is camouflage for a specific technique that makes it the most inconspicuous. In the video, everything is beautiful. It’s interesting to know how we are doing with camouflage.
  6. +4
    13 May 2017 15: 13
    one, two and repainted ... why not? candy wrappers is unmeasured ...
  7. +1
    13 May 2017 15: 15
    With the technique clear. And what about the personnel? Pretending to be condoms or walruses? Who does not hide, we will not be to blame.
  8. +1
    13 May 2017 15: 49
    Well, of course, for what - in order that the North Korean partisans would not recognize enemies in them. What did you think?
  9. +2
    13 May 2017 16: 21
    Let them repaint laughing our weather is unpredictable and in summer snow can fall.
  10. +1
    13 May 2017 17: 06
    And I liked how China came to the need for pixel camouflage:
    http://fishki.net/1902833-tajna-kitajskogo-kamufl
    jazha.html

  11. 0
    13 May 2017 17: 41
    And how good or bad this one will burn
    Camo Barracuda MCS
    if one of the evil people throws a Molotov cocktail into a vehicle?
    1. +1
      14 May 2017 14: 59
      There and so there is something to burn, and without camouflage.
  12. +2
    13 May 2017 22: 16
    American troops stationed in Germany are adapting their armored vehicles to combat operations in Europe. The beginning of the transition to the Barracuda MCS camouflage system (mobile camouflage system) from the Swedish company Saab was laid by the 2nd Cavalry Regiment of the US Army.

    It can be a ride in a geyrop, but in our country the seasons have a wider color gamut .. Oh, and if something happens, an armored-hoisted regiment or fires.
  13. 0
    13 May 2017 22: 28
    It will burn better ... or smolder.
  14. 0
    13 May 2017 22: 59
    While all the tanks are dressed in green, winter will come and white will be needed ....
  15. +2
    14 May 2017 05: 42
    Quote: NIKNN
    Ha, and we repaint the woods in blue and the grass in white .. laughing Joke of course smile

    Why a joke? Easy!
    ...... change the landscape, and manually.
    The enemy is lost in unfamiliar terrain and comes to full sky readiness! (DMB)
    This is our strategy!
    1. +1
      14 May 2017 15: 01
      There is a great experience in the Second World War on painting large areas of the terrain.
      1. 0
        14 May 2017 21: 57
        There is a great experience in the Second World War on painting large areas of the terrain.


        Fact.....

        Unfortunately, we appreciated ours only after the war, having carried out a system analysis.
  16. +2
    14 May 2017 05: 46
    Quote: Music
    While all the tanks are dressed in green, winter will come and white will be needed ....

    And then our T-90 "unprofessionally dangerous" gets closer and they turn brown ...
  17. +2
    14 May 2017 05: 50
    Quote: DOCTOR ZLO
    And how good or bad this one will burn
    Camo Barracuda MCS
    if one of the evil people throws a Molotov cocktail into a vehicle?

    Why evil? Judging by the Maidan, the mattress workers even have vocational schools, they teach those who will later work as a scammer of Molotov cocktails ...
  18. +1
    14 May 2017 06: 09
    all similar rag camouflage for a maximum of 1 battle, and if you still have to go through the forest, shrubs, or in a dense urban area before the fight, all this will remain in fragments and shreds.
    not to say that it’s not a necessary thing, but 2 armor or kaz is clearly not
    1. 0
      15 May 2017 09: 16
      Quote: Graz
      not to say that it’s not a necessary thing, but 2 armor or kaz is clearly not

      The camouflage is clearly and the tasks are not the same as those of KAZ. Camouflage is needed just in order for KAZ to be needed only in an emergency.
  19. +1
    14 May 2017 21: 56
    Beginning of the transition to the Barracuda MCS camouflage system


    Most likely this is camouflage from drones and drones working at night, and apparently it is really not noticeable.