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Sep
The Waffen-SS Platanenmuster (Plane Tree) was the first dot-and-dapple SS camouflage — and its name is post-war collector vocabulary, not a wartime one.
Tag Archives: Flecktarn
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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.
15
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.
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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.
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Aug
Aug
Flecktarn won the Bundeswehr’s 1976 trials but took 14 years to adopt. Its history, the Dutch ‘Stippel’ affair, worldwide copies and the Multitarn future.