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This is a list of military clothing camouflage patterns used for battledress. 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]
Women's Reserve Camouflage Corps in camouflage suits. The Women's Reserve Camouflage Corps was a specialized unit of American women artists formed during World War I to design and test camouflage techniques for the military. They created both clothing and disguised military equipment for the war effort. Disbanded at the end of the war, women ...
Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by an armed force to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. In practice, this means applying colour and materials to military equipment of all kinds, including vehicles, ships, aircraft, gun positions and battledress, either to conceal it from observation (), or to make it appear as something else ().
The Improved Outer Tactical Vest (IOTV) is an enhanced version of, and a replacement for, the older Outer Tactical Vest (OTV) component of the Interceptor multi-threat body armor system, as fielded by the United States Army beginning in the mid-2000s.
The USMC's MARPAT pattern was the first digitalized (pixelated) pattern in the U.S. military, unveiled in mid-2001. [2] [3] [4] It was first available in January 2002 and was mandatory by late 2004. [5] [6] 2002 U.S. Navy: Navy Working Uniform (NWU) There are two variants of the camouflage.
Army trainees say basic combat training is as much an emotional as a physical challenge. For many young recruits, basic training also represents their introduction to adult life and the ...
This is to be replaced by a digital camouflage pattern adopted in 2022. [20] Iran: Desert DPM is a standard use uniform in Iran's Army and Revolutionary Guard [21] [22] Jamaica: DPM camo used by the Jamaica Defence Force since 1992 will be replaced by Hypersteath's Digital Combat Uniform. [23] Kenya: Used by Kenya Defence Forces. [24]
Experimental Blue Tigerstripe camouflage. The first prototype of the ABU was unveiled in the summer of 2003. The early uniform prototypes consisted of trousers, an embroidered undershirt, and a blouse. The prototype camouflage pattern was a blue/gray, tigerstripe pattern, based upon the tigerstripe uniforms worn by airmen during the Vietnam War.