I know nothing about paint but friend told me it's a thing to manufacture paint with a specific infra-red reflectivity signature. So to the eye it looks like just ordinary white paint, but through an IR viewer it looks different. If the enemy just paint stuff on their own tanks to blend in then it will look wrong in IR. And they can't easily produce their own paint with the exact right signature.
I don't know, but I have a thought. What you describe sounds very official and worthy of special insignias...not painted-on afterthoughts. The original explanation, to separate Russian armored vehicles "Z" from Ukrainian vehicles "V" is still plausible. Also, if it is a means to identify vehicles on the field, it would behoove whomever is doing so to keep it easily changed with paint remover...depending upon circumstances -- such that one's enemy wouldn't take advantage and change their letter for a suicide mission.
I know nothing about paint but friend told me it's a thing to manufacture paint with a specific infra-red reflectivity signature. So to the eye it looks like just ordinary white paint, but through an IR viewer it looks different. If the enemy just paint stuff on their own tanks to blend in then it will look wrong in IR. And they can't easily produce their own paint with the exact right signature.
Sounds like we need to put something like this on our ballots or something to authenticate our vote. You know, like a watermark or something.
They are the Z's. The other side are the not Z'S (Nazi's)
Good pun
Not what the letters mean though
I don't know about bound, but the directions are right.
Yes but in Russian letters V is B, and Z is 3.
They use the Z to avoid confusion with number 3
Since Z for west is romanized they also romanize B for east into V
Wrong.
V = vostok = east
Z = zapad = west
Not sure about the other abbreviations, but they're called into question by the first two being wrong.
I don't know, but I have a thought. What you describe sounds very official and worthy of special insignias...not painted-on afterthoughts. The original explanation, to separate Russian armored vehicles "Z" from Ukrainian vehicles "V" is still plausible. Also, if it is a means to identify vehicles on the field, it would behoove whomever is doing so to keep it easily changed with paint remover...depending upon circumstances -- such that one's enemy wouldn't take advantage and change their letter for a suicide mission.