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1969: A member of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) instructs a 'Montagnard' irregular, who wears ARVN 'tiger stripe' camouflage. The term Montagnard referred to the indigenous Degar peoples of the Central Highlands of Việt Nam and was a carryover from the French colonial period. [Image: Australian War Memorial (AWM negative BEL/69/805/VN).]

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military camouflage patterns & uniforms

kamouflage.net is dedicated to the subject of military camouflage patterns and camouflage uniforms. It was launched on 30 September 2004 with the intention to provide information and pictorial references for the benefit of collectors, artists & designers, historians, military modellers & other hobbyists, and vendors.

So far, kamouflage.net has catalogued 277 military camouflage patterns from 91 countries. As usual, the Russian Federation was the country most often viewed last month (May 2009); the most often viewed camouflage pattern was Finland's M/05 woodland camouflage pattern. The most recently updated country is the Italian Republic. The most recently updated camouflage pattern is ARVN 'tiger stripe pattern' camouflage. There are, of course, many more camouflage patterns to identify, research and catalogue.

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Thanks go to Momchil Tachev, who provided some very good examples of Bulgarian 4-colour disruptive pattern. Additionally, Philip (last name not known) has provided some samples of currently unlisted U.S. camouflage patterns and Danilo Matz has provided lots of examples of Brazillian camouflage patterns; so I'm going to be busy for some time to come, researching their histories.

I'm also adding colour samples to some of the camouflage patterns listed on kamouflage.net. It's something that I've wanted to do since the Web site was in its earliest planning stages, but the problem of obtaining accurate colour measurements was only recently solved by the acquisition of a good spectrophotometer — a handy little device, which measures the specular reflectance of visible light as a function of wavelength.

The only drawback to the spectrophotometer is that I need a physical specimen of a camouflage pattern, to be able to measure its colours. In other words, I'm not going to be able to provide colour samples for every listed pattern. So I'm telling you now: I will not be hectored by those who think that this is my job and that they're my bosses. kamouflage.net is my hobby, and I'll do only so much as I want to do, in my own good time. If I don't include anything for your favourite camouflage pattern, then it's because I don't have anything to include. Accept it.