MegaCamo Blog
Stories, guides and news from the world of camouflage — from the history of iconic patterns to practical buying advice. New articles are published regularly.
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Denison Smock: The Parachute Jacket Behind the Brushstroke Family
The parachute smock that carried brushstroke camouflage to the airborne forces: its three patterns, its makers, and the legend behind its name.
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British DPM: The 50-Year Camouflage That Dressed the British Army — and the Four-Colour Desert DPM It Never Wore
British DPM — Disruptive Pattern Material — clothed the British Army and its allies for nearly 50 years. This is the story of the four-colour…
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Chinese Type 07: How China Digitised Its Army
The Chinese PLA Type 07, a six-colourway digital family fielded in 2007, and its replacement by the terrain-based Xingkong.
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Desert Night Ops: The Puzzling Grid Built to Beat Soviet Night Vision
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…
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Danish M84 “Pletsløring”: The Flecktarn-Derived Spot Pattern
Danish M84 Pletsløring — a three-colour Flecktarn-derived spot pattern that served the Danish army for over 30 years.
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Soviet and Russian Camouflage Nomenclature, Explained: How the Names Actually Work
A practical guide to the names, nicknames, abbreviations and family labels used for Soviet and Russian camouflage — and how they actually relate to one…
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German World War II Camouflage, Explained
The full German World War II camouflage family – Splittertarn, Platanen, Rauchtarn, Sumpf, Erbsenmuster – and the myths that surround it.
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Belgian Jigsaw: The Puzzle Pattern That Belongs to Belgium
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…
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CADPAT: The Pattern That Started the Digital Camouflage Revolution
CADPAT — how Canada created the first operational digital camouflage: four variants, 1990s testing, its influence on MARPAT, and why it is now being replaced.
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Swiss Alpenflage: The Most Complex Cold War Camouflage in Europe
Swiss Alpenflage — the six-colour Leibermuster-derived cold-war pattern, nicknamed the four-fruit pyjama, that outlived its army.
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Czech Vz95: How an American Design Became a Central European Signature
Czech vz.95 — the ERDL-derived leaf pattern conceived for Czechoslovakia in 1985 and revived as the standard of a new NATO member.
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Russian VSR “Dubok”: The Pattern That Emerged From the Soviet Collapse
Russian VSR Dubok — the first broadly issued Russian camouflage, amid a galaxy of hard-to-tell-apart post-Soviet patterns.
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- Camouflage History — the stories behind the world’s military camouflage patterns, from German WWII and Soviet leaf to ERDL, UCP, MTP and today’s digital prints.
- Pattern Guides — identify and compare camouflage patterns at a glance: colourways, variants, look-alikes and how to tell them apart.
- Myths & Facts — camouflage myths, debunked: we separate legend from fact.
- Buying Guides — practical buying advice from MegaCamo: made to order explained, choosing your camouflage, sizing, production times and what to expect.
- MegaCamo News — new patterns, new products and news from MegaCamo.