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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.]

1984 British Disruptive Pattern
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Uniforms camouflaged in British Disruptive Pattern Material (DPM) have been in use since 1969.

The DPM used for the British Pattern 1968 battle dress uniform featured a four-colour woodland camouflage pattern, composed of broad black, earth brown and medium green 'brush-strokes' on a light khaki background. Minor variations aside, this woodland DPM has remained practically unchanged for almost 40 years — as this sample of the DPM used for the Pattern 1984 battle dress uniform clearly shows.

Prior to to the advent of CADPAT™, British DPM was usually the winner, in personal concealment competitions. Due to its success as a camouflage pattern, many countries — such as the Republic of Kenya, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the Sultanate of Oman — have adopted versions of the design that typically vary only in colour.

kamouflage.net is grateful to Henrik Clausen, for his invaluable contribution to this article.

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