Soviets/Warsaw Pact seem to use several shades of green – blue/green, and a more olive green, depending upon the nation, period, lighting conditions, and perhaps even the film used to take the pics, and your computer monitor settings. I have read that many soft-skins and service vehicles remained in the single color scheme to the end of the Cold War – 1989. One source says Gelboliv before 1984, and the same one says 3-color after 1984 – perhaps 1984 was the official changeover date, and it took some time to implement. West Germans switched from Gelboliv to the NATO three-color scheme in/around 1984. I'd like clarification on the exact/approximate date for that, if anyone knows. Not clear on the exact date of their changeover, but certainly by the early 1980s (some seem to indicate by the late 1970s ). Not sure if they used Bronze Green for all of post-WWII – seems as if there is some debate about that for the very early, post-WWII period (olive drab from WWII being mentioned for Centurions). Prior to that, Americans used the four-color MERDC scheme, from the mid-1970s (olive drab before that, from the 1950s/1940s).īritish used a single colored green scheme for most of the Cold War, and then switched over to the more commonly seen Bronze Green and Black (ends up looking more charcoal gray when faded). The NATO three-color scheme was instituted/implemented around the mid-1980s, so was rather late in the Cold War (good for Team Yankee, but not for the earlier periods.Īppears the Soviets started adding multi-colored camo schemes to their vehicles at about the same time.
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