Posted: 7/29/2007 1:47:44 PM EDT
What are the different choices for cammo patterns and what terrain are they issued for?
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Multicam: Very effective in all terrains almost, but possibly the most expensive pattern on the market if you get straight from the inventors. The unofficial camo of ARFCOM . My personal go-to fatigues.Woodland: self explanatory (temperate woods), very cheap if you buy used, or even new. Desert: Three-color or six-color. six-color is harder to find used but was designed and tested in the US deserts. Three color is good for most any desert. Both are relatively cheap. Tigerstripe: Used in heavy foliage like jungle or dense forest. Very effective there and very cool looking. Still not too expensive. ACUPAT: The pattern used on the Army's ACUs. Effective in urban areas, but that's about it. Available used and new, but at mid-range prices. Many people don't like the velcro-centered design. Woodland Digital (MARPAT): Newest USMC pattern. Basically the woodland pattern redone in a computer-genterated pattern. Very effective. About the same price as ACU stuff. Desert Digital (MARPAT): Used by Marines in Iraq. Basically three-color desert digitized. Again, very effective. CADPAT: Canadian-made pattern currently in use. Effective in heavy foliage and woodlands. Virtually impossible (and illegal, IIRC) to get mil-spec, but many companies do thier best to reproduce it. I would expect to pay a premium for it. CADPAT- Arid: Desert CADPAT, see above. DPM (disruptive pattern material): British, four color(colour  ) current issue. Effective in woodland areas, but hard to come by stateside except for a few websites. Still not too expensive if you do get it.DPM Desert: British two-color current issue. See above. Flecktarn: Current issue for many northern-European armies. Originated in Germany, but user countries have made modifications to suit them individually. Effective in many of the same regions as DPM, but because it uses smaller color spots it may break up your outline better. Surplus is also widely available (at least near me), and low-priced. There are so many more I could list but these are the major modern patterns that I can think of off the top of my head, and the ones that you can easily get. I hope I helped. Almost forgot: this site is one of the few I have seen with this many of the patterns I mentioned in one place, plus others. It's in the UK, so prices are in Euros. 1 euro= $1.3719. flecktarn.co.uk Shop Edit: on this site the CADPAT isn't that bad, actually. I was surprised. |
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Let me just say I'm a little surprised at your choice, but to each his own. ACUs at BDU.com They sell BDUs in the ACU pattern as well as regular ACUs. EDIT: Well, they use to have BDUs in digital... |
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Yes it does. I grew up in western Nebr. on the grassland prairies. I currently live in the more arid, almost desert, regions of the Rockie Mountains in western Colo. The 6 color desert is ideal here if you stay in the dryer rim rock areas with scrub cedar and sage brush and out of the forest areas. I'm convince the 6 color would work great in the grassland prairies too. For the forested areas here old fashioned Woodland is pretty hard to beat. There may be one of the newer patterns that would work in both areas, but that's a pretty tall order. |