Promotional material: Warpaint

Biannual technical publication offering advice and guidance on coatings for application to Royal Naval surface ships and submarines.

Warpaint is published by Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) in April and October, and offers advice and guidance on coatings for application to Royal Naval surface ships and submarines.

Warpaint is the DE&S ships’ main guidance document of approved paint coatings for in-service and new-build Royal Naval vessels, including submarines. However, not all approved coatings are listed in Warpaint as paint manufacturers are constantly striving to improve their current paint systems. Consequently, the annexes within Warpaint are regularly updated.

Where suppliers have been contracted to a particular version of Warpaint they should request a copy through their customer or MOD Authority.

If a coating is proposed which is not listed in Warpaint, confirmation of acceptance must be obtained from DES Ships-Eng-TES-Husbandry.

Updated contact email address. Added information on requesting copies of previous Warpaint editions.

Added 'Warpaint: Issue 55, October 2024'.

Added 'Warpaint: Issue 53, October 2023'.

Addition of 'Warpaint: Issue 49, October 2021'.

Added: Warpaint: Issue 47, November 2020.

Addition of Warpaint: Issue 46, April 2020.

Added Warpaint: Issue 45, September 2019.

Added Warpaint: issue 43, September 2018.

Added Issue 42 and updated the 'details' section.

Added Warpaint: issue 40, September 2016.