Each military service has their own camouflage patterns. The US Army's is called the Universal Camouflage Pattern. When it was developed, they army skipped over the testing phase and went straight to using it in the field, which is where its flaws started showing up. And camouflage isn't supposed to "show up." The reasons behind why some camouflage colors and patterns work and others don't involves the science of perception, which is explained here. (via Digg)
I was in germany in the 70s. The american vehicles had this awful cam pattern which had large tan areas in it. You could pick them out at night. We 'captured' one unit and were able to count how many vehicles there were before we moved in.
ReplyDeleteI also remember reading somewhere that one country (afghanistan??) ended up with dark woodland type cammo because their guy making the decisons thought it looked cooler than a desert pattern.