LukeFF Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Well, they are right. The uniform does wear out long before the velcro does, I will give them that. That, and that ugly green watch cap. Mine wore out after, say, about 2 weeks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 We so focused on the issue of paint and camou that we forgot to look at the pictures! Take a look at that 4th photo down, the 3/4 rear shot. Just look at that monster slab of steel(?) spaced out beneath the troop compartment rear. How thick is that? An inch, inch-and-a-half? I can scarcely imagine what a fullly kitted and stowed Stryker weighs nowadays. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandokan Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I saw that...the one with the link about the Libyan Uni being Syrian? Or some such? Mord. Yep. That one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
souldierz Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 MickeyD i can imaging that plate got bigger after some IED strikes.Its seems to me to be a 2 inch or less thick steel plate.Those stryker's are i hear around 32 tons, maybe a little more with ammo and fuel and whatever else they can throw in there. I would have liked to have that plate under my car back in the college day's.Those speed bumps they had were brutal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisND Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I really don't envy that guy's job. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Mord, I saw that...the one with the link about the Libyan Uni being Syrian? Or some such? Yup, that was not Syrian. I forget what they actually had a picture of, but IIRC it was West German Border Guard (Bundesgrenzschutz) and not Libyan (they are not the same patterns). Syrians have only had two types of camo as far as I know: reddish vertical "lizard" and Woodland. The former was used for a brief time by a small number of units, the latter has pretty much been standard for 1st line units since the mid 1990s. Some pics posted here of Syrians in Woodland type uniforms: http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=89391 Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 "...reddish vertical "lizard" and Woodland." Your 'lizard' description reminded me of something funny, I heard once that the occupied Dutch had a nickname for German soldiers - "cucumbers" - due to the cucumber green shade of the heer uniforms. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Let's just think about an organization which is concerned with camouflaging the BOTTOM of a vehicle; WTF? Is that so it can hide after it's been flipped over? Yeah, yeah, I'm sure it's already been primed, so don't tell me it's to rust-proof the bottom. I wonder what the extra man-hours to paint the underbody are billed at to the taxpayers? But, more importantly, will this be correctly portrayed in game? Accurate underbody skins, or the game is broken! Ken 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clavicula_Nox Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Let's just think about an organization which is concerned with camouflaging the BOTTOM of a vehicle; WTF? Is that so it can hide after it's been flipped over? Yeah, yeah, I'm sure it's already been primed, so don't tell me it's to rust-proof the bottom. I wonder what the extra man-hours to paint the underbody are billed at to the taxpayers? But, more importantly, will this be correctly portrayed in game? Accurate underbody skins, or the game is broken! Ken Imagine the chaos that would be caused if everything but the bottom was painted. Pogue officers would be running around confused about what to do "Ahhh it's not perfectly uniform! My OER is ruined!". The First Sergeant would randomly tell soldiers to paint it, but since they don't have paint, it never actually gets done. Someone else would ask "well, if the bottom is still green, maybe the whole thing is supposed to be green? Maybe the tan was a mistake and they forgot until they got to the bottom?" and then the damned thing would get painted green again. No, it's best to just do the whole thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 My personal favorite: damn, I just noticed the bottom of the blast plate is green and the rest of the vehicle is tan. I bet the factory installed the blast plate upside down. Quick, get some guys to take it off and reinstall it properly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skwabie Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 [grave digging] So are Strykers still green nowadays? I spotted various desert color mods in the repo and thinking should I adopt this, googled Stryker on the net, and all the pics I got are still green except some scale model kits and game screenshots. You'd think they've started painting new ones tan by now unless REFORGER is still the biggest thing?.. [/grave digging] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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