MCDC-5 itself was not created in a vacuum, but was rather part of ATDU’s wider ‘hide, deceive, survive’ sprint looking at a range of technologies that can be used to provide the army with an advantage on the battlefield. In comparison, Challenger 2 tanks painted in the traditional NATO green were detected 70% of the time. Once personnel thought they had spotted the vehicle, they had to relay a detailed description of the target, including what vehicle they thought they were looking at and what direction the vehicle was facing.īrunskill added that in those trials, the Challenger 2 featuring MCDC-5 went undetected 80% of the time. In a major test of the camouflage’s abilities, ATDU took 100 different personnel of various levels of experience, gave them different examples of foreign army optics, binoculars and different levels of descriptions of the target they needed to pick out. “It helps you start to better understand better how you can apply your basic soldiering techniques for camouflage and concealment and how you look at moving forward onto a design for what you're trying to achieve.” It’s a totally different sight picture than we are used to from our own vehicles. When you are looking at Challenger 2 through a BMP’s sight, you're actually thinking, 'Ah, that's what I look like when they're looking at me'. ATDU’s head of infantry fighting vehicles, Major Charlie Brunskill, said of the experiment: “I have never, and why would I have, looked at one of my vehicles through an enemy sight.
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