What do the panels that u.s. troops put near them to identify them as friendly look like?
Thanks,
cmdcntr
They look like the one on the front door of this hummvee.
or do you mean the dalinear stickers on the backs of the vevicles ( red and yellowishorange ) and we also have glowing cat eyes on the band that goes around our balistic helmets.
We also have those V < > ^ looking things with what looks like numbers?
all in all when looking through NVG’s it’s really hard to make out clearly what’s 10 feet infront of you let alone 100 meters.
that thing on the door if I’m correct is just a lil’ extra added protection for the driver.
There are also the orange cloth panels that get tied to the tops of vehicles. I think they were about 3’ x 4’ panels that where tied, taped or attached to the tops of vehicles, in any way shape or form that GIs could manage, so that allied aircraft could tell they were the “good guys”. Thats what we used in Desert Storm 1 anyway.
The orange nylon panels are called vf-17 panels and can be used for anything from marking LZ’ and DZ’s with code letters, to aireil identification for helicopters, they are usually taped to the back of the hummvee. they are 4’X4’ square usually but are often cut up. the panels on the side of the humvee are called a CIP or Combat Identification Panel, for identification when using thermal sites such as what the M1’s, M3’s and TOW armed hummvee’s have, and also for normal daytime use. the CIP’s are used on all US vehicles. Tamiya makes a great accessory pack that includes CIP’s adn some other cool stuff.
that’s good stuff hunter, (cip panels ) I guess you learn something everyday?
so the panels basically be raised away from the main body of whatever cool at a different rate than the rest thus makeing a darker spot?
O -yeah, have you seen these mounted on a paladin , and where are they mounted on one, we still haven’t received these beasts for ours.
Thanks for the help. I mean the panels that our troops would put out in prep for an air attack to mark their own positions as friendly. In Somalia, they put them out in the street outside the buildings they were hiding in. Correction: Defending from.
Those panels are probably the VF-17 panels. airborne units such as the rangers often cut the big panels up into smaller strips and fold them up to carry them in their k-pot (helmet). they are flourescent orange on one side and flourescent pink on the other.