Posted on 07/07/2007 7:54:09 PM PDT by DancesWithCats
by Xinhua writer Cheng Yunjie, Xu Lingui
BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- In contrast to the eye-catching uniforms recently unveiled by the People's Liberation Army, a new line of military wear has been designed to make its wearers less visible.
Labeled "digital camouflage", the new training fatigues sport computer-generated camouflage patterns which, their creators say, are designed to simulate natural environments.
"The camouflage pattern resembles a big bunch of flowers from a distance and crushed gravel close up," said senior engineer Zhang Xudong with the Quartermaster Equipment Institute (QEI).
The previous camouflage patterns worn by the PLA training outfits were hand-painted, accentuating the sharp contrast between different colors.
"With the application of pixel-matrix technology, the camouflage functions better as it blurs the divide between different colors," Zhang said, adding that a special dye was used to maximize the effect.
"The digital camouflage pattern can escape the naked eye and counter-reconnaissance in low light and certain wave bands of infrared," he said.
Upon the completion of the PLA's largest ever uniform upgrade in 2009, four different camouflage schemes for urban, wood land, desert and ocean environments will be employed. The camouflage schemes for woodland can also blend into urban environment.
To ease the constraint of the previous fatigues made up of coats and pants, designers loosened the hemline of the coats. Rank insignias were moved from shoulders to collars as a response to the complaint that equipment carried on the shoulders often made it difficult to recognize the ranks of the comrades.
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here is one! Guess our Army has been doling these out for about a year and a half now. Wanna see more? Just go to this website: www.vtarmynavy.com and you could even buy the hat for yourself for 16 bucks. Or the napsack. Interesting. I wonder how really effective in the field this is.
ROFLOL !! Good one ...
'I didn't see you at camouflage practice this morning, Private!'
'Thank you very much, Sir!'
LOL Great movie!!! Loved it.
LOL LOL ('cept he oughtta tone down his pink face! LOL)
Ah! I didn't catch it that someone else had posted on this article before me. Usually search the subject matter first to make sure. Would have posted on this thread instead ... pun intended! Thanks Daffy!
Maybe they mean digital camoflage like this?
Now THAT looks like it’s made out of rotten intestines ... who’d WANNA find it?! LOL
Its made of body parts alright, but lower than the intestines. Google “Maiolica plate” to learn more.
It was painted in the 1500s as part joke and part tribute to great writers like Pietro Aretino, and painters like Leonardo da Vinci.
It is worth millions(?) and is an integral part of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England.
Those are penises I see there, lol!
“Portrait of the Artist as a Dick-Head”.
Frankly, I can't see what all the hoopla is about. The self-serving articles make it sound as if they invented something unique.
Compared to these uniforms, I'm not so sure. The mannikins are to swoon over! *;-P
The top pic could make a fine target.
It looks like the Chinese have stolen some more of our military research and just copied them to the PLA uniforms.
Probably didn’t have to travel far, some US company may have outsourced production to China to save a buck.
The US Army spent many millions to develop the new camo uniforms IIRC.
As a matter of fact, that is the title of the work.
Somehow the “Classics” are much more bawdy than I remember in grade school.
ROFLOL!!!
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