There are many fine websites that have additional information on this 8010-0: Case of eight aerosol WD CARC spray bottles.8010-0: Touch up kits, six foil packed kits of Tan 33446 and two primer kits for a total of eight touch-up kits.Other forms of packaging for MIL-DTL-64159 Type 2 Water Dispersible CARC in Tan Color No. The above list is from PS: The Preventive Maintenance Monthly, August 2004. This table gives some of the NSNs for Desert Tan 33446 paints supplied to the U.S. drums to spray cans) and is also formulated as other types of paint than CARC. The Desert Tan 33446 paint is available in quite a few types of packaging (from 55 gal. As an alternative, if 33446 Tan is not available, Sand 30277 or Sand 33303 are sometimes used.
The same Desert Tan 33446 color is sometimes referred to as Tan 686 or Tan 686A. Infrared min 62.0, and Infrared max 72.0.Chromaticity x 0.368, Chromaticity y 0.364.Military vehicles are painted with water dispersible CARC paint using Federal STD-595B color 33446 "Desert Tan." The performance and composition specification is MIL-DTL-64159 which defines Tan 686A, 33446 with these parameters: Desert Tan was selected for all vehicle painting, a policy that was continued in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters in the 2000s.ĭesert Tan painted HMMWVs and other vehicles, aboard the rapid-response vehicle cargo ship USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292) en route to Saudi Arabia where the equipment will offload in support of Operation Desert Shield, 17 August 1990. These factors led to the decision to adopt a solid, single color paint scheme for desert operations. Second, results of testing by the Saudi Arabian National Guard indicated that in a sparse desert environment, a solid color was preferable to the three color pattern. First of all, the logistical difficulty of painting huge numbers of vehicles with a complex pattern were too enormous for the rapid mobilization and deployment requirements of the Gulf War. When it came time to re-paint thousands of vehicles for the Gulf War, problems developed with the existing desert pattern. The USMC AAVP-7 above is painted in one of the desert camouflage patterns that were abandoned in favor of a single color Desert Tan scheme. Some vehicles were painted with this pattern, but it was rarely used compared to woodland camo. The three-color camouflage patterns included a desert version with two sandy colors and black.
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