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TL;DR: because mid-20th-century designers believed soft green reduced eye strain and improved focus. Basically the same nonsensical belief as in regard the dark mode nowadays. I don't even believe it's true. Green is just an army colour, that's pretty much it. Army uses army colours. Mystery solved.
Maybe it even works better with the color of a clear blue sky above it.
Anyway, it's intuitive and not rocket science.
Meanwhile the Yanks stayed with mil-spec gray on a similar ship, the F-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F-15_Eagle_Cockpit.jpg
TL;DR: because mid-20th-century designers believed soft green reduced eye strain and improved focus. Basically the same nonsensical belief as in regard the dark mode nowadays. I don't even believe it's true. Green is just an army colour, that's pretty much it. Army uses army colours. Mystery solved.
With anything, an academic can thread together a theory that neatly joins the dots to sound feasible, but my bet is that 99% of all engineers are stronger at physics than color theory.
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