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Flecktarn!!
The German SS WWII camo was pretty cool too.
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The modern German camo is in fact indirectly based on the old SS camo from the war.
The German fleckarn is directly based on the Danish camo pattern that was introduced in 1984 - the flecktarn is the EXACT same pattern, it just uses different colors.
The original Danish pattern was touted as computer-designed and very effective, but I always thought it looked very reminiscent of the old SS pattern. When I was at the Danish Army Combat School where it was developed, I asked the people there exactly how it was developed, and they admitted that the computer used a starting pattern to work with - which of course turned out to be the old SS pattern.
Nobody in the Danish army was surprised when the German army leapt on the excuse to adopt the modified Danish pattern. Those Germans are a scary bunch. [:D]
[img]http://www.arktisusa.com/camo/Danish.jpg[/img]
Original Danish Army
[img]http://www.arktisusa.com/camo/German.jpg[/img]
German Army