Military camouflage is a crucial tactic in modern warfare, designed to hide soldiers, vehicles, and equipment from enemy ...

The camouflage Battle Dress Uniform (BDU), with a four-color pattern developed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratory (ERDL) in 1948, saw limited use in the Army, which ...

Related: New Army camouflage uniform hits stores. While not standing out on the battlefield would seem fairly obvious, the use of camouflage by the U.S. military only dates back 60 years.

From fake trees to zebra-striped ships, history’s weirdest camouflage ideas prove that blending in sometimes takes outrageous ...

The Army launched its massive camouflage improvement plan in 2009 when its pixilated Universal Camouflage Pattern came under scrutiny from soldiers, lawmakers and the Army test community.

The Army is replacing its Universal Camouflage Pattern with Scorpion, a pattern similar to MultiCam developed around 2002. Army Selects New Camouflage Pattern | Military.com Profile ...

Military camouflage, you may think, is easy: you just slap weird shapes in tones of green, beige, blue, or gray on hardware or clothes. But camouflage today is much more sophisticated than that ...

A decade ago the U.S. military had two kinds of camouflage; today it has 10. The uniforms have become a case study in government duplication.

The Army began designing the digital, grayish and ultimately doomed universal camouflage pattern as the Marines prepared to roll out their two new digital patterns, which the Corps fielded in 2002.

Uniforms and equipment in the Operational Camouflage Pattern will be available for U.S. Army National Guard, U.S. Army Reserve, and Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps during summer 2016.

The Army then began its own camo development from 2002–2004, culminating in the development of several “universal” or “transitional” patterns including Scorpion.

New soldiers will receive Operational Camouflage Pattern Army Combat Uniforms, or ACUs, beginning in January 2016. In addition to the camouflage change, the new uniforms also incorporate minor ...