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Tiger stripe is the name of a group of camouflage patterns developed for close-range use in dense jungle during jungle warfare by the South Vietnamese Armed Forces and adopted in late 1962 to early 1963 by US Special Forces during the Vietnam War. [1] During and after the Vietnam War, the pattern was adopted by several other Asian countries.
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.
Tiger stripe camouflage, a group of camouflage patterns Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tiger stripes .
The English zoologist Edward Bagnall Poulton studied animal coloration, especially camouflage. In his 1890 book The Colours of Animals , he classified different types such as "special protective resemblance" (where an animal looks like another object), or "general aggressive resemblance" (where a predator blends in with the background, enabling ...
Military camouflage relies predominantly on disruptive patterns, [7] though methods such as outline disruption are also used, and others have been prototyped. In 1890 the English zoologist Edward Bagnall Poulton categorised animal colours by their uses, [8] which cover both camouflage and mimicry. [9]
Aubie the Tiger, Auburn's mascot, was also sporting camouflage during Tiger Walk. The reason for the attire is due to it being Auburn's military appreciation game, as the Tigers ran onto the field ...
The tiger is featured in the mediaeval Chinese novel Water Margin, where the cat battles and is slain by the bandit Wu Song, while the tiger Shere Khan in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894) is the mortal enemy of the human protagonist Mowgli.
The Rhodesian Brushstroke is a brushstroke-type camouflage pattern used by the Rhodesian Security Forces from 1965 until its replacement by a vertical lizard stripe in 1980.. It was the default camouflage appearing on battledress of the Rhodesian Army and British South Africa Police, although used in smaller quantities by INTAF personnel.