Editing Tank (section)

=====Camouflage=====
{{further|Military camouflage}}
[[File:Challenger 2-Megatron MOD 45161486.jpg|alt=|thumb|A British [[Challenger 2]] Theatre Entry Standard fitted with a mobile camouflage system.]]
Camouflage can include disruptive painted shapes on the tank to break up the distinctive appearance and silhouette of a tank. Netting or actual branches from the surrounding landscape are also used. Prior to development of infrared technology, tanks were often given a coating of camouflage paint that, depending on environmental region or season, would allow it to blend in with the rest of its environment. A tank operating in wooded areas would typically get a green and brown paintjob; a tank in a winter environment would get white paint (often mixed with some darker colors); tanks in the desert often get khaki paintjobs.

The Russian [[Nakidka]] camouflage kit was designed to reduce the [[optical]], [[Thermal radiation|thermal]], [[infrared]], and [[radar]] signatures of a tank, so that acquisition of the tank would be difficult. According to Nii Stali, the designers of Nakidka, Nakidka would reduce the probabilities of detection via "visual and near-IR bands by 30%, the thermal band by 2–3-fold, radar band by 6-fold, and radar-thermal band to near-background levels.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090707002753/http://www.niistali.ru/pr_secure/nobron_en.htm#7 "Nakidka" kit for protection against surveillance and precision-guided systems](archive)</ref>