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Can't figure out whether spraying spare track-links is common or not. I was kinda thinking it's a museum thing, so the track won't eventually rot the surface it's bolted to, but I've found this pic of a spare link on an active-duty vehicle. Maybe this is procedure, maybe the Russians were lazy as fuck and just didn't take it off (though I know Marine M60's in the First Gulf were sprayed with sand color in a hurry, even with shit like jerry cans and spare roadwheels still on), I don't know.
Maybe when a tank gets a factory/depot-level overhaul they paint it without the spare links attached, so those stay unpainted, but at a unit-level repaint they leave it attached, again I don't know. So I guess it's whatever the fuck I want.
What autistic small detail keeps you bothered, /smg/?