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Originally Posted by Breha

Camouflage is the same that cn be seen on recent italian army vehicles.

Nato specs or who is copying whom?

In fact there is no standard NATO camouflage paint except NATO-olive, which is more and more uncommon these days.
Today it is common to paint vehicles and tanks with mask pattern, for the FRG army it is RAL 6031 Bronzegreen, RAL 8027 Leatherbrown and RAL 9021 Tarblack. Other armies like the occupying US Army use the same colours for their military vehicles, patterns differ a little bit from German though. Countries that bought German Leopard 2 tanks, like The Netherlands, use the same camouflage patterns. Other countries, like Switzerland or Austria, no NATO members, also use this 3 colour sheme. France uses this colour shemes too, but the most vehicles I saw had a more olive-hued Bronzegreen.
It may not be forgotten it is impossible to have the exact colour applicated on every vehicle sind several firms produce these colours, and colours bleach out of course.
I find this matter fascinating since I was a model-maker a while ago, and always was interested in how original vehicles really look like, every then and now when time allows and I am in mood I assemble a model though
Since a few years I noticed a trend with army vehicle paintings here though, winter camouflage is less and less common, but desert camouflage all the more

Anstriche und Markierungen
RAL (color space system)