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Sep
Sep
Czech vz.95 — the ERDL-derived leaf pattern conceived for Czechoslovakia in 1985 and revived as the standard of a new NATO member.
Author Archives: Megacamo
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Sep
Sep
Russian VSR Dubok — the first broadly issued Russian camouflage, amid a galaxy of hard-to-tell-apart post-Soviet patterns.
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Sep
Sep
The Finnish M05 camouflage family — M62, M91 and M05 — shows Finland’s season- and terrain-specific approach to camouflage, tuned for boreal summer, winter, cold and desert.
Camouflage History
Swedish M90: The Splinter Pattern That Turned a Cold War Airfield Design Into a National Symbol
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Aug
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The Swedish M90 splinter camouflage, scaled from a Cold War airfield design, hides soldiers at a kilometre and became a national symbol.
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Aug
Aug
Spanish M09 — the MultiCam-derived “digital” pattern that disproves the idea that blocky camouflage is always pixelated.
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Aug
Aug
Two camouflage patterns can look alike yet have nothing to do with each other. Three axes — morphology, family/lineage and nomenclature — keep them apart.
28
Aug
Aug
The Rhodesian Brushstroke was born under sanctions in 1965, worn through the Bush War, and outlived Rhodesia itself. Its history, variants and legacy.
Camouflage History
Camouflage Centre Europe: The Double Life of the Pattern That Defined France’s Army
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Aug
Aug
How France’s CCE pattern went from 1986 vehicle paint to a 30-year uniform standard — colours, variants, Bosnia to Afghanistan, and the BME that replaced it.
Camouflage History
UCP: The $5 Billion Camouflage That Taught the US Army What “Universal” Can’t Mean
27
Aug
Aug
The Universal Camouflage Pattern was meant to work everywhere and failed. The trials picked a different winner: Natick, Congress, MultiCam and the myths.
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Aug
Aug
How Britain’s Multi-Terrain Pattern (MTP) replaced 40 years of DPM: the £250,000 Helmand project, the MultiCam trials, the controversies and the legacy.