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water bottle question
jafo
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 05:28 PM UTC
Question that came up at my model meeting tonight
why are there water bottles hanging upside down from antenna's on todays modern armor?
Vriez17
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 05:38 PM UTC
Usually to mount ir strobes on the top (bottom of bottle)
SSGToms
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 05:40 PM UTC
To put a glow stick in for night ops.
ProfessorP
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 07:13 PM UTC
Interesting. So by mounting them upside down, troops can use them for either situation...glow sticks inside or IR strobes on top (bottom)?
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Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 10:46 AM UTC
Naturally ,being Canadian,I couldn't figure out why the heck they were there on every piece of Canadian armour.So I went to one of our armed forces sites for the answer and yes they are for glow sticks for night ID.

Tom
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Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 10:59 AM UTC
Next time I deploy I think I'll put some generic object in a very visible place, and get everyone I know to do it as well. Then I can entertain myself when I get back reading the threads about it.
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Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 11:52 AM UTC
Robert,

Here's a couple:

Duct tape a standard wall clock on its back on top of each vehicle with 12 o'clock aligned to the front of the vehicle.

Or a plastic "tupperware" half filled with food-colored water (or gatoraid) taped on a horizontal surface on each vehicle.

But these may be to "obvious".
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