Monthly Archives: September 2026

How South Korea’s digital granite pattern was designed, why soldiers called it the steam-cooker uniform, and why no replacement has been approved.

Most camouflage patterns are asked to hide a soldier in one kind of landscape. France’s pale mountain pattern is asked to hide one in two at once: the white…

In September 1990 France renamed its military contribution to the Gulf crisis Opération Daguet. A daguet is a young stag — a male deer in its second year…

In the second half of 2006 the Estonian Defence Forces took a pixelated field uniform into service. It came in two colourways at once: a greenish four-colour…

Finland’s service camouflage is usually described as a woodland pattern with a few climate variants tacked onto it. The order of events is the opposite. The…

In Russian, камыш — kamysh — is the reed at the water’s edge, and the word has been asked to carry several quite different prints. This article separates the circa-1993 tiger-type design, the 1995 камышовый рисунок and the grey «Серый камыш», and sets out what is documented about the units that wore them.

Yugoslav M89 Hrastov List — the non-aligned JNA’s own oak-leaf pattern, worn through the wars and outliving its country.

Austrian camouflage — two designs: the German-derived pea battle suit (1957–78) and the Steintarn “stone” splinter of the tent and the helmet cover.