Why Are Some Military Aircraft Painted in Camouflage While Others Are Not?

“To be, or not to be, that is the question,” quoth the titular protagonist in the immortalized opening line of his soliloquy in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act III, Scene I. Perhaps if Hamlet were a 20th or 21st-century military aviator as opposed to a Renaissance-era Danish prince, he might’ve rephrased it as “To paint in camouflage, or not to paint in camouflage, that is the question.”