This is a list of military clothing camouflage patterns used for battledress. Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by armed forces to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. Textile patterns for uniforms have multiple functions, including camouflage, identifying friend from foe, and esprit de corps.[1]
The list is organized by pattern; only patterned textiles are shown. It includes current and past issue patterns, with dates; users may include a wide range of military bodies.
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| Airman Battle Uniform (ABU) | 2008 | Used by the United States Air Force and its civilian auxiliary the Civil Air Patrol.[2] [3] [4] | |||
| Woodland | 2004 | Snow camouflage of the French Armed Forces. It is typically worn by the Alpine Hunters of the 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade and other mountain units. It was developed by Terräng - MP-Sec France. The French Armed Forces were looking for a winter camo for their participation to the ISAF in Afghanistan.[5] | |||
| AOR-1 (NWU Type II) | 2010 | United States Navy, certain specialized units only.[6] [7] | |||
| AOR-2 (NWU Type III) | 2010 | United States Navy, specialized units before 2016, fleet-wide after 2016.[8] | |||
| A-TACS | 2010 | Used by Peruvian marines[9] and the Haitian National Police.[10] Unlicensed copies are used by the National Guard of Russia under the name of "Ataka".[11] [12] "Original Foliage Green (FG)" variant shown. | |||
| 2014 | Australia[13] | ||||
| Bundeswehr Tropentarn (3-Farb-Tarndruck) | 1993 | German :[14] tropical battle dress uniform for desert and semi-arid regions (army and air force) was also in use in the Danish army until they changed to M/01 | |||
| Canadian Disruptive Pattern (CADPAT) | 2002 | Canada; four operational variants (Temperate Woodland operational variant shown)[15] | |||
| Camouflage Central-Europe | Woodland | 1994 | French Armed Forces[16] | ||
| Digital Camouflage Combat Uniform (DCCU) | Digital | 2011 | Taiwanese Army and Air Force[17] | ||
| 1991 | Thailand (VDC), Egypt, United States[18] | ||||
| 1980s | United States (formerly).[19] United Arab Emirates (formerly).[20] Used by many other armies in many colour and pattern variations, including Argentina, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Kuwait, Niger, Paraguay, Peru, China, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Libya, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Korea (formerly), Spain (only in arid theaters) (formerly), Yemen.[21] | ||||
| 1991 c. | United States (formerly)[22] | ||||
| 1986–2017 | Australian Defence Force | ||||
| 1968 | United Kingdom, DPM-95 shown. It replaced similar 1960 pattern DPM, introduced in 1968.[23] Replaced by Multi-Terrain Pattern. Indonesia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway (special forces) (formerly), Philippines, Russia, Yemen. | ||||
| EMR Camouflage | 2011 | Russia[24] | |||
| 1944 | Germany[25] | ||||
| Erbsentarnmuster | 1957 - 1978 | Austrian Armed Forces[26] | |||
| ERDL (M1948) | 1967–1988 | Singapore Armed Forces,[27] Turkish Armed Forces late 1980s–1990s, was used by the USMC until the early 1980s and the U.S. Air Force until the late 1980s. | |||
| Flächentarnmuster, also called Kartoffelmuster (potato pattern), or Blumentarn (flower camouflage) | 1956–1967 | East German National People's Army[28] | |||
| 1990 | Germany,[29] and at least 16 variants in different countries. Albania;[30] Belgium;[31] China until 2007;[32] Denmark 3-color variant;[33] France;[34] India;[35] Japan;[36] Kyrgyzstan;[37] Poland;[38] Russia; Greece, Ukraine. | ||||
| 1942 | United States. Reversible: 5-color jungle one side, 3-color beach the other.[39] Also sometimes called "Duckhunter." Used by the US, (primarily the USMC) in World War II. Remained in use by the USMC into the 1960s. Also used by Turkey until 1980s in different colorways. | ||||
| 2015 | Used by the Hungarian Defence Force introduced in 2015.[40] | ||||
| HyperStealth Spec4ce Afghan Forest | Woodland | 2009 | Used by the Afghan National Army since 2010.[41] | ||
| 1956 | Belgium[42] | ||||
| Leibermuster | Woodland | 1945 | Germany[43] | ||
| 1947 | France[44] Many variants, both with horizontal stripes (Chad, Gabon, Rwanda, Sudan, Cuba, Congo, Greece) and with vertical stripes (Portugal 1963, then Egypt, Greece, India, Lebanese Palestinians, and Syria). Outside France, Tunisia has probably fielded more varieties of the lizard pattern than any other nation.[45] Vietnam era Tigerstripe is a variant of Lizard. | ||||
| 2007 c. | Finland[46] | ||||
| Digital | 2014 | Ukrainian Army camouflage used since 2014, replacing the Dubok camo that was developed in 1980 and in service since 1984.[47] [48] Ukraine though now has multiple patterns that it received from NATO and other western partners since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Ukraine uses blue and yellow markings on the uniform to prevent friendly fire. | |||
| M19 Netherlands Fractal Pattern Green (NFP-Green) | Flecktarn | 2019 | NFP Green, Standard issued camouflage since 2019 in the Royal Netherlands Army .[49] [50] This camouflage is designed to be used in green areas, woods, and urban areas in Europe. Three additional colour variations are in use and are shown below. An arctic version of the NFP is being considered.[51] | ||
| M19 NFP-Multitone | Flecktarn | 2019 | NFP Multitone is in use in the Royal Netherlands Army. It is used for packs and load carriage equipment. The fabric being courser, it is difficult to incorporate all the details. I uses therefore less colours than the Tan and the Green, and takes mixes both so that they can use it in both environments efficiently enough.[52] | ||
| M19 NFP-Navy | Flecktarn | 2020 | In use in the Royal Dutch Navy since 2020, and used by the Belgian Navy since 2021[53] | ||
| M19 NFP-Tan | Flecktarn | 2019 | Camouflage in use in the Royal Netherlands Army in desert and arid climates.[54] | ||
| M20WoodLatPat | Splinter | — | 2020 | The Latvian Land Forces unveiled a new standard camouflage pattern. It uses a similar concept to the Swedish M90 Splinter camo, but with smaller shapes.[55] [56] | |
| 1984 | Denmark; 9 color variants.[57] France;[58] [59] Latvia;[60] Lithuania; Russia; Sweden;[61] Turkey;[62] Was used by Estonian Defence Forces until 2006, when it was replaced with ESTDCU[63] | ||||
| 1989[64] | Standard camouflage of the Swedish armed forces.[65] The Latvian Land Forces used it in 1996 for the SFOR mission, the uniforms were surplus equipment of the Swedish Army.[66] Two additional colour patterns exist and described below. | ||||
| M90K | Splinter | 2004 | Introduced for the Afghan mission of the Swedish armed forces, colours of the standard M90F were changed for an arid environment.[67] | ||
| M90 Winter | Splinter | — | Used by Sweden and by the Royal Netherlands Army special force group Korps Commandotroepen (KCT) | ||
| M2017 | Woodland | 2017 | Introduced for the Romanian Armed Forces in 2017. Has three variants: Army, Navy, and Air Force. Similar to MultiCam.[68] | ||
| Marina Trans Jungle (US4CES) | Digital | — | 2015 | Mexican Naval Infantry | |
| Marine Pattern (MARPAT) | 2002 | United States Marine Corps (arid variant shown),[69] [70] some U.S. Navy sailors assigned to USMC units, and U.S. Marine Corps JROTC cadets. The temperate variant was used by the Georgian Army in the late 2000s, but has since been replaced by a domestic variant of MultiCam.[71] | |||
| 2002 | U.S. Armed Forces,[72] Angola,[73] Brazil,[74] Australia,[75] [76] Austrian Armed Forces Jagdkommando,[77] Cypriot National Guard,[78] Denmark, Montenegro,[79] New Zealand,[80] Panama,[81] South Korea,[82] Thailand,[83] Bolivia, Tunisia,[84] Turkish Navy Azerbaijani Armed Forces, the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, Georgian Armed Forces,[85] and the Haitian National Police.[86] Also known as Scorpion. Norwegian Special Forces (FSK, MJK)[87] [88] | ||||
| 2024 | French Army,[89] the BME (Bariolage Multi-Environnement) will replace the Central Europe Pattern and the Daguet Desert Pattern from 2024.The pattern was designed by the . The base colour is the one used on all new French vehicles, "Brown French Soil" (Brun Terre de France). | ||||
| Woodland | — | 2024 | French Army, it will replace the Alpine Tundra Pattern from 2024.This pattern is used by the "Alpine Rangers" (Chasseurs Alpins). It uses the same pattern as the BME but with a white background, light gray spots, and small patches made of a darker colour based on a humid trunk.[90] | ||
| Multitarn | Flecktarn | 2016 | In 2016, the Bundeswehr Research Institute for Materials and Operating Materials (WIWeB) developed a universal camouflage following the lead of many allies in their purchase of the MultiCam camo for their special forces, and its 6 colours are very close to it. It was developed as the new standard pattern for the Bundeswehr but has yet only entered service with the special forces.[91] [92] | ||
| 2010 | British Armed Forces,[93] it is a combination of the Army's previous camouflage, DPM and MultiCam. It is supposedly more effective than MultiCam itself, due to the integration of more natural and fluid shapes of the DPM pattern.[94] | ||||
| NWU Type I | Digital | 2008–2019 | United States Navy,[95] New York State Naval Militia,[96] and U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps.[97] Retired by the U.S. Navy in 2019. | ||
| Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP) | 2015 | United States, replacing Universal Camouflage Pattern by 2019.[98] An enlarged, slightly modified version of MultiCam. Also known as Scorpion W2. | |||
| 1937 | Germany: summer (shown) and autumn variants. | ||||
| 1960 c. | Warsaw Pact countries: Poland ("deszczyk"), Czechoslovakia ("jehličí"), East Germany ("Strichtarn"), and Bulgaria[99] [100] subsequent use: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan | ||||
| 1965–1980 | Rhodesia[101] /Zimbabwe | ||||
| 1994 | South Africa[102] | ||||
| 1931 | Germany 1931–1945 (Wehrmacht, SS, Reichswehr)[103] | ||||
| Tactical Assault Camouflage (TACAM) | Organic, non-pixelated pattern | 2004 | U.S. National Counterterrorism Center[104] [105] | ||
| Organic, non-pixelated pattern | 2017 | Austrian Armed Forces | |||
| 2019 | Austrian Armed Forces[106] [107] | ||||
| Tarndruck Beige PXL | Digital pattern | 2011 | Austrian Armed Forces[108] [109] | ||
| Tarndruck SEK PXL | Digital pattern | 2014 | Austrian Armed Forces | ||
| 1983 | Switzerland[110] | ||||
| 1990s | Switzerland | ||||
| TAZ 07 | Woodland | 2007 | Switzerland[111] Only used for missions abroad, such as in arid countries (Mali), it can also be used in missions abroad in summer in countries such as Kosovo (Swisscoy as part of KFOR) or in South Korea (NNSC mission). The pattern is based on the TAZ 90. | ||
| .[112] | Woodland | 2022 | Switzerland[113] [114] This camouflage will be the standard one for the new personal equipment of the Swiss Army (MBAS armament program). The pattern is based on the TAZ 90, and the black colour was replaced by a light brown, and is also designed to provide multispectral stealth properties (IR and radar). | ||
| Woodland precursor | 1929 | Italy, for shelter-halves, then uniforms. Oldest mass-produced camouflage pattern.[115] | |||
| 1969 c. | South Vietnam, US special forces in Vietnam. Based on Lizard. Many variants. Also used by Australia, New Zealand in Vietnam.[116] [117] | ||||
| Turkish pattern | 2008 c. | Turkish Armed Forces[118] 5 variants[119] Azerbaijani Armed Forces | |||
| 1999 | China[120] | ||||
| 2007 | China. Ocean variant shown. | ||||
| 2005–2014/19 | United States Army,[121] some U.S. Navy sailors assigned to army units,[122] the Texas State Guard,[123] Chadian Army,[124] and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. Also used by the Iranian military in limited contexts. | ||||
| U.S. Woodland ("M81") | 1981 | Derived from ERDL.[125] Used by the United States Navy SEALs, U.S. Navy SWCC, USMC MARSOC,[126] Luxembourg,[127] Argentine marines,[128] Azerbaijani Armed Forces, Bangladesh Army,[129] the Dutch Marine Corps,[130] Peruvian marines,[131] and the Nigerian Navy.[132] Was used by the Afghan National Army and the Mexican Naval Infantry[133] in the 2000s. Also used by the Moldovan Special Forces,[134] [135] Malaysian navy,[136] Malawian Army, Tunisian Army's Special Forces Group[137] and Turkey until mid-2000s in 3 colorways. | |||
| VSR-93 Flora | 1993 | Russia[138] | |||
| wz. 68 Moro | "Worm pattern" [139] | 1969–1989 | Poland; 6 variant colorways.[140] [141] [142] | ||
| wz. 89 Puma | "Reptile Pattern" | 1989–1993 | Poland[143] | ||
| 1993 | Poland[144] | ||||
| K17[145] (Type 17) | Modified duck hunter pattern | 2017/2018 | Vietnam;[146] [147] 5 variant colorways | ||
| K20(Type 20) | Woodland | 2019/2020–present | Vietnam; 6 variant colorways[148] | ||
| M06 ESTDCU | Digital | 2006 | Estonian Defence Forces[149] | ||
| Woodland | 1998–Present | Norway[150] |
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