"The New Camouflage Pattern US The Army Is Switching..." Topic

…To This Year.

"The U.S. Army has quietly announced that it will be switching to a new camouflage pattern. The current design, the Universal Camouflage Pattern, has been used for the past ten years. Its replacement, called the Scorpion pattern, features a darker design"

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What happened with the Predator invisibility suit? (smile).

Amicalement
Armand

After WW2, the U.S. Army went basically 45 years with one minor change to its uniforms. Then, in the past 20 years, they go through four major changes.

This is what comes of pumping up defense budgets with no accountability or planning.

And it doesn't make it any easier to keep up with painting a modern mini force, either.

So basically they're going to something similar to multicam--which is what they should have done originally anyway (back when the current doesn't-blend-with-anything was adopted).

Rob

I just hope it is made in the US and not China. Be a real bummer come the next war with China and they are wearing the same uniform.

They should use a camouflage that is so camouflage it doesn't look like camouflage. For example

It's ridiculous that they change so much. Not accountability is right. The Marines went to Home Depot to get there MARPAT colors..

It looks like a mixture of Multicam and M81 Woodland, which if you ask me, is a damn good mixture. Thank God our guys will blend in against surfaces besides for couches and concrete dust.

Yes it has been shameful how the so called universal camouflage that does not hide you from anything has cost $$$ and no accountability and all about some general getting an extra gold star. Sadly this reminds me way too much of the same idiocy that originally brought the M-16 into production too early and untested. That got a lot of good soldiers and Marines killed in Vietnam. Sadly I wonder how many soldiers were wounded or KIA in Iraq and Afghanistan because of this stupidity. The more things change the more they stay the same.

Simpler is usually better. Maybe they should just go with something like this…

I know when my Knothead goes into the bush he's hard to spot unless I can see his tail!

This is what happens when the military is run by defense contractors. Note that each time a patern is adopted, it is touted as the best ever conceived- until next week.

US Army Introduces ‘Revolutionary' New Woodland Camouflage Uniform To Replace ACU link

Only a complete moron would think this new Camo is an improvement over UCP except in very specific terrain (meaning a specific side of a road or a patch of brush in the real world).

They don't understand camouflage, they don't understand what its limitations are, they don't have a clue why UCP was chosen or why it works. "But, duh, the new one is green and brown, so it must be gooder."

Special Ops can pick and choose their Camo on a mission by mission basis, but other soldiers can't.

Here are some pics of Afghanistan combat areas. Guess which Camo pattern is the ONLY one that works in ALL of them (to varying degrees) and doesn't make you a sitting duck in ANY of them? And these pics don't begin to take in to account varying seasons, times of day, or weather for each location – all of which make UCP even more effective overall.

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I still think that ATACS is superior to Multicam:

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I like the old Camo or Green Jungle Fatigues …

The biggest waste of $ was the Night Desert.

This unique camouflage pattern was designed for use at night in the desert. Blends a light green and dark green into a checkered patterned that makes soldiers nearly invisible in a night time desert environment.

We called them Fred Flintstone Suits.

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This is the same camouflage, slightly modified, that has been adopted by the British army.