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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.]

1948 experimental camouflage pattern
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

The late 1940s saw the appearance of uniforms camouflaged with a four-colour hybrid pattern, which was created by overprinting the aliased medium green, dark green and sand-yellow pattern of the three-colour deceptive camouflage suit (Russian: трёхцветный маскировочныч камуфлированныч костюм, trans. tryokhtsvetnyy maskirovochnyy kamuflirovannyy kostyum, TTsMKK) with the chocolate brown blobs of the 1938 'amoeba pattern' camouflage.

Opinions differ, as to the reasons behind this hybridisation. In Camouflage Uniforms of the Soviet Union and Russia, 1937 to Date, Dennis Desmond suggests that it was either an effort to exhaust existing stocks of earlier issues or an attempt to create experimental camouflage patterns for use in the field. The idea that these hybrid camouflage uniforms were experimental in nature seems much more likely, isasmuch as uniforms printed with hybrid 'amoeba–stair step' designs only ever appeared in small quantities, through to the mid-1960s.

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