Mil-Spec Coatings
What is CARC paint? CARC stands for Chemical Agent Resistant Coatings. These coatings are used extensively on most military vehicles and equipment. These coatings produce a non-porous coat that impedes radioactivity, chemical and biological contaminants from penetrating the coating and the base material. Instead of penetrating the coating, chemicals bead up on the exterior of the surface and are washed off easily.
CARC is required to resist chemical attack from aggressive cleaning detergents used for decontamination of vehicles. In turn, these vehicles can be used over again without the concern of future contaminants along with the security of resisting further chemical attack.
CARC is a pretreatment-primer-topcoat system of coating. The specifications are:
- MIL-DTL-64159 - Water-dispersible aliphatic polyurethane chemical agent resistant coating
- MIL-C-53039 - Aliphatic polyurethane single-component chemical agent resistant coating
Production Paint Finishers, Inc. provides these coatings on a daily basis and is well known throughout the finishing industry as the CARC Coating specialists.
Deployment Exposure & Chemicals
Chemical Agent Resistant Coating (CARC) Paint
CARC is a paint used on military vehicles. This coating system provided surfaces that are easily and effectively decontaminated after exposure to liquid chemical agents. The CARC system contains solvents and isocyanate (HDI). Exposure to CARC paint may occur during indoor painting operations if proper personal protective (PPE) equipment and engineering controls are not instituted.
Sources of Information:
- CARC Fact Sheet - This page on the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine is a fact sheet on CARC paint and how it relates to your health.
- Chemical Agent Resistant Coating (CARC) Paint - This page on the Deployment Health Clinician Center web page contains information on the clinician significance of Particulate Matter and how a person may be exposed to Particulate Matter.
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