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Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by armed forces to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. Textile patterns for uniforms have multiple functions, including camouflage, identifying friend from foe, and esprit de corps. [1] The list is organized by pattern; only patterned textiles are shown.
The Desert Camouflage Uniform (DCU) is an arid-environment camouflage uniform that was used by the United States Armed Forces from the mid-1990s to the early 2010s. In terms of pattern and textile cut, it is identical to the U.S. military's Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) uniform, but features a three-color desert camouflage pattern of dark brown, pale olive green, and beige, as opposed to the four ...
Tactical Combed Gurun is the desert/arid color-palette for the Indonesian Multicam pattern PDL Khas Matra Darat. Unofficially called as Desert Indocam was intended to replace the older Desert Malvinas/DPM Style Pattern and was based on Tropical Version of Indonesian Army Field Uniform Camo Pattern.
The Desert Battle Dress Uniform (DBDU) [3] is a U.S. arid-environment camouflage battle uniform that was used by the United States Armed Forces from the early 1980s to the early to mid 1990s, most notably during the Persian Gulf War. Although the U.S. military has long since abandoned the pattern, it is still in widespread use by militaries ...
The U.S. military has run trials of many camouflage patterns (some being used by foreign militaries), and issued environment-specific uniforms, notably the six-color Desert Battle Dress Uniform (DBDU), nicknamed the "chocolate chip camouflage", designed in 1962, and the "nighttime desert grid" (NCDBDU).
A 2003 drawing showcasing the Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform in desert and woodland camouflage variants MARPAT (short for Marine pattern ) [ 3 ] is a multi-scale camouflage pattern in use with the United States Marine Corps , designed in 2001 and introduced from late 2002 to early 2005 with the Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform (MCCUU ...
Following an Urgent Operational Requirement for a camouflage uniform for the Afghan theatre of operations, and the success of a commercially available pattern (Crye's MultiCam) when tested in trials, a decision was made to use MultiCam as the basis of a new Multi-Terrain Pattern for British armed forces, replacing the previous temperate DPM uniforms.
Tropentarn ("tropical camouflage") is the name of a lighter weight cotton-polyester fabric printed with the German 5-color Flecktarn camouflage pattern used by the Bundeswehr for their military uniforms. Uniforms made in this fabric are for service in warmer, tropical regions.