It has been suggested to me that the reason that the Britishicon army used the gloss/semi gloss bronze green paint for a period of time during the 1950's/60's is because it was believed that it may be reflective to infrared. I could never understand why this particular paint was a gloss finish while pretty much all other British army vehicle paint had and still has a matt finish and if the reason is because it was an attempt to make it reflective to infrared that does sound entirely plausible. It would be interesting to know if this is correct and, if correct, what factors made the paint reflective to infrared, i.e. was it just making the paint gloss or was something else done to the paint as well.