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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Overwhites: Snow Camouflage and the Winter Problem
Nearly every army has issued white clothing for snow, and nearly every army has treated it as a compromise. A century of snow camouflage, from…
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Loreng: Indonesia’s Camouflage from the Malvinas DPM to Today’s Digital Uniforms
Indonesia’s armed forces gave a whole family of uniforms the name of camouflage itself. The Malvinas DPM dressed the army for four decades, and took…
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Multitarn: Germany’s New Universal Camouflage
For thirty years the German armed forces answered the camouflage question with a fork in the road. Fight in the forests of Central Europe and…
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PHILMARPAT: The Philippines’ Digital Marine Pattern
PHILMARPAT is a camouflage pattern with a well-known name and a surprisingly thin paper trail. The reference works that cover the subject state that the…
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ABU: The US Air Force’s Tigerstripe, and Why It Was Retired
From 2007 to 2021 the US Air Force wore a pale, pixelated tiger stripe that no other service had. The Airman Battle Uniform promised airmen…
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Sumpfmuster 43 and 44: Germany’s Late-War “Marsh” Patterns
Two patterns, almost the same colours, overlapping dates, and a name that changes depending on who is writing: Sumpfmuster 43 and Sumpfmuster 44 are among…
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Amoeba (MMK 1938): Soviet Camouflage for Scouts and Snipers
In 1938 the Red Army adopted its first camouflage suit to be printed and made in quantity: a two-tone garment carrying large, irregular reddish-brown blobs…
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Arbuz “Flora”: The Watermelon Pattern of the Russian Army
Russian soldiers called VSR-98 camouflage “watermelon”, a nickname older than the pattern: it described a stripe-dominated print of the early 1990s, and a qualifier told…
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Italian Camouflage: From Telo Mimetico to Vegetato
One of the most widely copied camouflage designs in Italian service was not designed as clothing at all. The pattern adopted in 1929 was printed…
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MARPAT: The Camouflage the U.S. Marine Corps Patented
Between 2001 and 2004 the United States Marine Corps did something that, as far as the record shows, no other service had done with a…
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Strichtarn: East Germany’s One-Colour Rain Camouflage
Strichtarn is the most minimal camouflage pattern ever to dress a European army for a quarter of a century. It has no blotches, no leaf…
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Izlom, Skol and Skol-M: Three Names, One Family?
Three names for one piece of printed cloth, and a trap built into the question: the names are not three synonyms, they are not three…
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- Pattern Guides — identify and compare camouflage patterns at a glance: colourways, variants, look-alikes and how to tell them apart.
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