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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 ().
Ukrainian Airborne Forces wearing dubok uniforms together with US Army at the Rapid Trident 2011 military exercise. Dubok was developed in 1997 for the Ukrainian Army. [4] It was designed as a replacement for Soviet-Era "Butan" camouflage uniform's in Ukrainian service, contrary to popular belief Dubok is not a variant of Russian, Ukrainian, or Soviet Butan, although it shares similarity's ...
Ukrainian Army camouflage used since 2014, replacing the Dubok camo that was developed in 1980 and in service since 1984. [48] [49] Ukraine though now has multiple patterns that it received from NATO and other western partners since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Ukraine uses blue and yellow markings on the uniform to prevent friendly ...
The ERDL pattern, also known as the Leaf pattern, [2] is a camouflage pattern developed by the United States Army at its Engineer Research & Development Laboratories (ERDL) in 1948. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was not used until the Vietnam War , when it was issued to elite reconnaissance and special operations units beginning early 1967.
Just like their sister branches on the ground, air forces around the world constantly seek to change and improve the camouflages they use. And like all other examples of camouflage, aircraft ...
Leibermuster is a German military camouflage pattern first used in 1945. It was the last of a family of German World War II camouflage patterns.The pattern (named after its designers, the Leiber brothers) was issued on a very limited basis to combat units before the war ended.
Wz. 93 Pantera camo in use by Ukrainian soldiers. Armenia: Used by Armenian Army as helmet covers for their wz. 93 helmets. [5] [6] Poland: Introduced into service in 1993, remains in use today. [7] Also used by the Border Guard and the State Protection Service. Ukraine: Unknown numbers of uniforms and equipment in wz. 93 were handed over in ...
U.S. Army soldiers wearing OCP uniforms mixed with legacy UCP equipment while shooting M16A2s at a shooting range. The ACU patterned in OCP first became available to U.S. Army soldiers on 1 July 2015, at 20 locations in the contiguous United States and in South Korea, with first-day sales exceeding $1.4 million.