List of military clothing camouflage patterns

1931 Splittertarnmuster (splinter pattern) first used for tents, then parachutists' jump smocks, and finally for infantry smocks

This is a list of military clothing camouflage patterns used for battledress. Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by a military force to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. Textile patterns for uniforms have multiple functions, including camouflage, identifying friend from foe, and esprit de corps.[1]

The list is organized by pattern; only patterned textiles are shown. It includes current and past issue patterns, with dates; users may include armed, paramilitary, police, firefighting, search and rescue, counter-insurgency/counter-terrorism and other security forces and emergency services.

Patterns

Military camouflage patterns of the 20th and 21st centuries
NameFamilyImageIssuedUsers
Australian MulticamWoodland2014Australia[2]
Airman Battle Uniform (ABU)Digital tigerstripe2008Used by the United States Air Force and its auxiliary Civil Air Patrol,[3][4][5]
AOR-1 (NWU Type II)Digital2010United States Navy, certain specialized units only.[6][7]
AOR-2 (NWU Type III)Digital2010United States Navy, specialized units before 2016, fleet-wide after 2016.[8]
A-TACSWoodland2010Used by the Peruvian Marines[9] and the Haitian National Police.[10] Unlicensed copies are used by the Russian Federation under the name of "Ataka".[11][12]
Bundeswehr Tropentarn (3-Farb-Tarndruck)Flecktarn1993German Bundeswehr:[13] tropical battle dress uniform for desert and semi-arid regions (army and air force)
Canadian Disruptive Pattern (CADPAT)Digital2002Canada. Temperate variant shown.[14]
Camouflage Europe CentraleWoodland1991France
Desert Camouflage Pattern (three-color)Woodland1991Thailand (VDC), United States[15]
Desert Camouflage Pattern (six-color)Woodland1980sUnited States (formerly).[16] United Arab Emirates (formerly).[17] Used by many other armies in many colour and pattern variations, including Argentina, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Kuwait, Niger, Paraguay, Peru, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Libya, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Korea, Spain, Yemen.[18]
Desert Night Camouflage1991 c.United States (formerly)[19]
Disruptive Pattern CamouflageWoodland1986–2017Australian Defence Force
Disruptive Pattern MaterialDPM1968United Kingdom, DPM-95 shown. It replaced similar 1960 pattern DPM, introduced in 1968.[20] Replaced by Multi-Terrain Pattern. Indonesia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Russia, Yemen.
ErbsenmusterFlecktarn1944Germany[21]
ERDL (M1948)Woodland1967Singapore Armed Forces,[22] Turkish Armed Forces late 1980s–1990s,[23] was used by the USMC until the early 1980s.
Flächentarnmuster, also called Kartoffelmuster (potato), or Blumentarn (flower)Flecktarn1956–1967East German National People's Army[24]
FlecktarnFlecktarn1990Germany,[25] and at least 16 variants in different countries.
Albania;[26] Belgium;[27] China until 2007;[28] Denmark 3-color variant;[29] France;[30] India;[31] Japan;[32] Kyrgyzstan;[33] Poland;[34] Russia;[11] Greece, Ukraine.
Frog Skin/SpotFrog Skin1942United States. Reversible: 5-color jungle one side, 3-color beach the other.[35] Also sometimes called "Duckhunter." Used by the US, (primarily the USMC) in World War II. Remained in use by the USMC into the 1960s. Also used by Turkey until 1980s in different colorways.[23]
HyperStealth Spec4ce Afghan ForestWoodland2009Used by the Afghan National Army since 2010.[36]
JigsawPuzzle1956Belgium[37]
Leibermuster1945Germany[38]
LizardLizard1947France[39]
Many variants, both with horizontal stripes (Chad, Gabon, Rwanda, Sudan, Cuba, Congo, Greece) and with vertical stripes (Portugal 1963, then Egypt, Greece, India, Lebanese Palestinians, and Syria). Vietnam era Tigerstripe is a variant of Lizard.[39]
M05Digital2007 c.Finland[40]
M84Flecktarn1984Denmark; 9 color variants.[41] Estonia:[42] France;[29][43][44] Latvia;[42] Lithuania;[42] Russia;[29] Sweden;[45] Turkey[46]
M90Splinter1989[47]Sweden;[48] Latvia;[49]
Marina Trans Jungle (US4CES)Digital2015Mexican Naval Infantry[50]
Marine Pattern (MARPAT)Digital2002United States Marine Corps (arid variant shown),[51][52] some U.S. Navy sailors assigned to USMC units, and U.S. Marine Corps JROTC cadets. The temperate variant was used by the Georgian Army in the late 2000s, but has since been replaced by a domestic variant of MultiCam.[53]
MultiCamWoodland2002U.S. Armed Forces,[54] Angola,[55] Brazil,[56] Australia,[57][58] Austria,[59] Denmark,[29][41] Montenegro,[60] New Zealand,[61] Panama,[62] South Korea,[63] Thailand,[64] Bolivia, Tunisia,[65] Turkish Navy[23] Azerbaijani Armed Forces, the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, Georgian Armed Forces,[66] and the Haitian National Police.[67] Also known as Scorpion.
MultitarnFlecktarn2016Bundeswehr[68]
Multi-Terrain PatternDisruptive Pattern Material2010British Armed Forces[69]
NWU Type IDigital2008–presentUnited States Navy,[70] New York State Naval Militia,[71] and U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps.[72] Due to be retired by the U.S. Navy in 2019.
Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP)Woodland2015United States, replacing Universal Camouflage Pattern by 2019.[73] An enlarged, slightly modified version of MultiCam. Also known as Scorpion W2.
PlatanenmusterFlecktarn1937Germany: summer (shown) and autumn variants.[21]
Rain patternRain1960 c.Warsaw Pact countries: Poland ("deszczyk"), Czechoslovakia ("jehličí"), East Germany ("Strichtarn"), and Bulgaria[74][75]

subsequent use: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan

Rhodesian BrushstrokeBrushstroke1965–1980Rhodesia[76]
Soldier 2000Woodland1994South Africa[77]
SplittermusterSplinter1931Germany 1941–1944 (Wehrmacht, SS)[78]
Tactical Assault Camouflage (TACAM)Woodland2004U.S. National Counterterrorism Center[79][80]
TAZ 90Woodland1990sSwitzerland[81]
Telo mimeticoWoodland
precursor		1929Italy, for shelter-halves, then uniforms. Oldest mass-produced camouflage pattern.[82]
TigerstripeTigerstripe1969 c.South Vietnam, US special forces in Vietnam. Based on Lizard. Many variants. Also used by Australia, New Zealand in Vietnam.[83][84]
Turkish patternsemi-Digital2008 c.Turkish Armed Forces[85] 5 variants[23] Azerbaijani Armed Forces
Type 99 (China)Woodland1999China[86]
Type 07 (China)Digital2007China. Ocean variant shown.[86]
Universal Camouflage PatternDigital2005–2014/19United States Army,[87] some U.S. Navy sailors assigned to army units,[88] the Texas State Guard,[89] Chadian Army,[90] and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. Also used by the Iranian military in limited contexts.
U.S. Woodland (M81)Woodland1981Derived from ERDL.[91] Used by the United States Navy SEALs, U.S. Navy SWCC, USMC MARSOC,[92] Luxembourg,[93] Azerbaijani Armed Forces, the Dutch Marine Corps,[94] and the Nigerian Navy.[95][96] Was used by the Afghan National Army and the Mexican Naval Infantry[97] in the 2000s. Also used by the Moldovan Special Forces,[98][99] Malaysian navy,[100] Malawian Army, and Turkey until mid-2000s in 3 colorways.[23]
wz. 68 Moro1969–1989Poland; 6 variant colorways.[101][102][103]
wz. 89 Puma1989–1993Poland[104]
wz. 93 PanteraWoodland1993Poland[105]


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