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Sep
Sep
EMR – Digital Flora – is the pixel pattern that unified the Russian armed forces, and its designers trace its logic not to CADPAT but to Germany’s Flecktarn. The trap in the name, explained.
Monthly Archives: September 2026
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Sep
Sep
Splittertarn was the most widely distributed German WW2 camouflage, but it came as a Zeltbahn tent, not a uniform. The splinter pattern and its long legacy.
13
Sep
Sep
The Polish wz. 93 Pantera – a special-forces camouflage turned into a national uniform after a presidential appearance – has outlived its own replacement.
12
Sep
Sep
The parachute smock that carried brushstroke camouflage to the airborne forces: its three patterns, its makers, and the legend behind its name.
Camouflage History
British DPM: The 50-Year Camouflage That Dressed the British Army, and the Four-Colour Desert DPM It Never Wore
11
Sep
Sep
British DPM, Disruptive Pattern Material, clothed the British Army and its allies for nearly 50 years. This is the story of the four-colour temperate pattern and of the desert DPM Britain built but never wore.
09
Sep
Sep
The Chinese PLA Type 07, a six-colourway digital family fielded in 2007, and its replacement by the terrain-based Xingkong.
08
Sep
Sep
Desert Night Camouflage, the strange two-colour grid issued to US troops in the Gulf War. Why it exists, how it was designed to defeat Soviet night vision, and why it became obsolete.
07
Sep
Sep
Danish M84 Pletsløring, a three-colour Flecktarn-derived spot pattern that served the Danish army for over 30 years.
06
Sep
Sep
A practical guide to the names, nicknames, abbreviations and family labels used for Soviet and Russian camouflage, and how they actually relate to one another.
05
Sep
Sep
The full German World War II camouflage family – Splittertarn, Platanen, Rauchtarn, Sumpf, Erbsenmuster – and the myths that surround it.