All to keep folks employed making uniforms. Meanwhile we have fewer folks to wear them because we don’t have money for that.
If they would ditch the velcro, it would look a lot like the old stuff I have in the back of my closet...and I was USAF.
Velcro and zippers have no place on battle uniforms.
The decision is based on where most of them are most likely to go in the near future among other things. Woodland works very well outside of urban areas and very arid deserts. As for gadgets that can see camouflaged soldiers, those aren’t of much use later in a more extended conflict that consumes many resources. In such a conflict, soldiers return to using good, basic, but less comfortable skills.
its about the money..giving another huge contract to donators....its the American way...
So .... they’re ditching digital and going back to the original.
I am not impressed, and while I do believe that it might be better than the current digitized pattern, it looks like a regression to similar designs that were used before the digital. SO twentieth century!
So, in other words, the Army is now issuing Multicam, only slightly different so someones’s brother-in-law who doesn’t work for Crye Precision can make money.
For those wondering, Multicam (and presumably all the “commercial” and derivative versions) actually work pretty well in arid environments despite the green, while working better in heavier vegetation than the ACU could ever hope to have worked.
And the one-pattern-fits-all-environments can be argued both ways: on one hand, any “universal” pattern is likely to have some level of compromise in any environment. On the other hand, technology is at the point where passive camo is not all that effective at anything other than extreme long range now.
And photo-realistic camo like RealTree and the like are great if you never move, sit in one highly-specific environment, and your “prey” is colorblind and not very intelligent. However, they suck in combat, because most combat doesn’t take place in open hardwood forests with no one moving; not to mention that humans are intelligent enough to figure out that the patch of bark and tree limbs sitting in the open with no trees nearby is suspicious.
If someone knows the EXACT pattern that is being used, can’t a computer processing filter be applied to scan for the pattern like a finger print?
Check the boot laces...which is right?
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