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The parachute smock that carried brushstroke camouflage to the airborne forces: its three patterns, its makers, and the legend behind its name.
Author Archives: Megacamo
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.
04
Sep
Sep
Belgian jigsaw camouflage — the puzzle pattern used by the Belgian Army from 1956 to 2022. Design origin, generations (m/56, 1999, desert), African variants, and why Belgium switched to Multicam.
03
Sep
Sep
CADPAT — how Canada created the first operational digital camouflage: four variants, 1990s testing, its influence on MARPAT, and why it is now being replaced.
03
Sep
Sep
Swiss Alpenflage — the six-colour Leibermuster-derived cold-war pattern, nicknamed the four-fruit pyjama, that outlived its army.