Classic Military Vehicles

[Time Bandit]

Hi Bob,nice to see you are now contributing to CMV, you will have to sneak a few extra military Land Rover piccys in!:D
Now,a quick question for you (which you might or might not know the answer to!!), one of your piccys in CMV shows a CAV manned by Paras and it has its military registration painted in big letters on the roof, just curious as to why?? Any ideas, recognition from the air??:confused: :)

[Bob]

You got it in one - it allows helicopter observers to identify particular units and if necessary refer to them over the airwaves by registration number rather than by their callsign. All part of the operational security thing.
I will hopefully be contributing a lot more to CMV, as and when I get the time (my recent house/office/studio move has affected my output over the last couple of months), and Pat is keen for me to do Land Rover stuff as well as more general topics. However, I have to be careful not to over-saturate the market and ensure that people do not get bored with reading the same thing in different mags.
Bob