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Urban camouflage is the use of camouflage patterns chosen to make soldiers and equipment harder to see in built-up areas, places such as cities and industrial parks, during urban warfare. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Several armed forces have developed urban camouflage patterns .
Four different patterns in a total of 13 variations were tested during the evaluation: three woodland patterns, three desert, three urban, three desert/urban, and one multi-environment pattern. [1] [2] [3] The Universal Camouflage Pattern was eventually adopted despite not having been part of the test. Brigadier General James Moran, the ...
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]
Figure and Ground theory is founded on the study of the relationship of land coverage of buildings as solid mass (figure) to open voids (ground) Each urban environment has an existing pattern of solid and voids, and figure and ground approach to spatial design is an attempt to manipulate these relationships by adding to, subtracting from, or ...
Universal Camouflage Pattern A sample of the UCP pattern Type Military camouflage pattern Place of origin United States Service history In service 2005–2019 (U.S. Army) [a] [b] Used by State Defense Forces See Users for non-U.S. users Wars (In U.S. service): War in Afghanistan Iraq War (In Non-U.S. service): Mexican drug war Insurgency in Northern Chad Second Nagorno-Karabakh War Syrian ...
Operation Urban Warrior was a United States Marine Corps program created as an exercise meant to plan and test Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (MOUT) and urban warfare in general. It was developed in the mid-1990s by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory partly in response to growing problem on inner-city fighting, and especially ...
The purpose of the digitized pattern is to create visual "noise" and prevent the eye from identifying any visual templates. Thus, the pattern is intended to not register as any particular shape or pattern that could be distinguished. [22] There were initially three MARPAT patterns tested: Woodland, Desert, and Urban.
"The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History", Spiro Kostof, 2nd Edition, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1999 ISBN 978-0-500-28099-7; The American City: A Social and Cultural History, Daniel J. Monti Jr., Oxford, England and Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. 391 pp. ISBN 978-1-55786-918-0.