RE: [OT] Question from the news

Those are ID markings - easily identified from a distance or through a
scope.	IIRC they used to have other geometric shapes to differentiate
companies/battalions using stuff like squares and triangles.  They
probably switched to arrowheads to reduce the ease of targeting shapes
like circles.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Barclay [mailto:kaladorn@magma.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 1:36 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: [OT] Question from the news
>
> 
> 2. I keep seeing these sideways V symbols on 
> various armoured vehicles. Some seem to point 
> back, others forward. Any armour crew out 
> there who can suggest what their purpose is? 
> 
> Tomb