[RERomine]

In general, using captured equipment is frowned upon because, well it looks and sounds like an enemy unit. It's more of a problem with tanks and vehicles than guns. No matter how you paint it, on a dark night, someone will think it belongs to the enemy and pop it. Even worse, you know there are captured enemy tanks in your company, battalion, regiment or what have you and non-captured ones show up and you don't shoot at them...well, you can figure that one out.

It's not as big a problem after the nation the equipment belonged to drops out of the war. The Germans used lots of tanks captured from the French.