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Uncover your potential', indeed! Once you stop ogling the girl, though, you might notice that this Australian Special Air Service (SAS) recruiting poster shows Australian Disruptive Pattern Camouflage to very good effect. [Image courtesy Brad Turner collection.]

Solnechnyye zaychiki (reverse)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

1968/69 saw the issue of the last one-piece camouflage uniform ever to be issued to the armed forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the camouflaged summer concealing overalls (Russian: Камуфлированный летний маскировочный комбинезон, trans. kamuflirovannyy letniy maskirovochnyy kombinezon, KLMK).

The KLMK was a reversible garment, with this camouflage pattern on the other side. It is, very simply, the 'solnechnyye zaychiki', reversed and overprinted with a light-coloured pattern of small, hound's-tooth checks.

Dennis Desmond, in Camouflage Uniforms of the Soviet Union and Russia, 1937 to the Present states that this camouflage pattern was intended for wear in snowy or sandy terrains. However, its superficial resemblance to the grid-like pattern featured on the U.S. Parka, Night Camouflage, Desert — which was used extensively, by U.S. armed forces throughout the 1st Gulf War — has given rise to suggestions that this camouflage pattern might likewise have been intended for use at night. Like the dark grid used in the U.S Desert Night Camouflage, the hound's-tooth check might be an interference pattern, designed to 'fool' the pixelised displays of early night vision systems.

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