From: eckinator
2011/1/14 John Sessoms <[email protected]>:
>
> Which camouflage? Woodland, 6 color desert, 3 color desert, urban or one of
> the newer digital patterns ... and if so, US Army, USMC or USAF? That's not
> even considering the patterns adopted by our allies.
not to mention your enemies or the 'coalition of the neutral and
indifferent' ]=P
btw was urban ever an official pattern at all?
IMO one link says it all: http://camopedia.org/index.php?title=Benin
(for the PDML of course modified to incorporate silhouettes of
cormorants and GFM)
Cheers
Ecke
It seems like it's the allies who are more likely to have their own
patterns.
Everyone else seems to either use surplus U.S. Woodland uniforms, or
makes their own uniforms using a derivative pattern based on U.S.
Woodland, especially the neutral and the indifferent countries.
... and don't forget the unwilling, the unknowing and the ungrateful.
The original "urban" camouflage was a commercial development of a
greyscale variation of the U.S. Woodland pattern intended for marketing
to Rambo wannabees.
As far as I know the "urban" pattern was never adopted as an "official"
pattern by the U.S., although it was issued in limited quantities to
Special Operations teams.
It's sort of the "official" uniform for "unofficial" deniable black ops.
The greyscale "urban" woodland pattern has been adopted officially by
some post Warsaw Pact eastern European military organizations, along
with some locally developed variations.
The UCP (Universal Camouflage Pattern) used in the ACU (Army Combat
Uniform) is a digital variation of the "urban" scheme of the woodland
pattern. It's made up of darker greenish-grey (or greyish-green) blocks,
lighter greenish-grey blocks on a not quite white that has kind of a
green tinge to it. Up close you can see the square blocks which kind of
breaks up the pattern, but as you move away it begins to appear to have
an almost monochrome woodland pattern.
It looks like a fractal pattern drawn by someone who had never seen a
fractal, only had one described to them.
That Benin camouflage is a standard U.S. Woodland pattern with a really
kool local overprint.
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