Denmark’s CV90s Borrow Ukraine’s Stealth Playbook
A Danish CV90 outfitted with Saab’s Barracuda MCS. Courtesy Danish MoD
The Danish Army has officially slapped Saab’s Barracuda Mobile Camouflage System (MCS) onto its fleet of CV90 infantry fighting vehicles.
Ever since my time in the Army, I’ve been a camo connoisseur. And we’ve come a long way from the basic woodland camo I was issued in the late 1990s to Swedish camo that can hide from pretty much any sensor.
Signature management is military speak for “please don’t let the enemy notice me.” It’s how you keep from becoming free B-roll on Telegram.
Your “signature” is anything a sensor can detect like sight, sound, heat, radar, or that guy livestreaming your position because he’s doing it for the lolz.
I believe camouflage coatings like Saab’s Barracuda Multi-Spectral Camo will soon be the norm across NATO. That’s because the sensor war over Ukraine has gone thermonuclear. Every cheap quadcopter and $2,000 FPV is a flying sniper scope.
Every soldier, tank, IFV, and artillery piece is a heat signature waiting to die.
For Ukraine, this is old news. They’ve been living that reality since day one. The drone swarms above the front don’t sleep.