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Bosnian Serbs of the Vojska Republike Srpske ('Forces of the Serb Republic') wearing a mixture of solid OD green, Yugoslav 'green tiger stripe' and Yugoslav M89 camouflage uniforms. [Image: militaryphotos.net.]

Yugoslav 'green tigerstripe'
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Yugoslav 'green tiger stripe' is one among many camouflage patterns based upon the French 1953 'lizard pattern'. It is a three-colour design, comprising horizontally-aligned brush strokes of chocolate brown and a rather bright medium green on a light brown background. It was originally introduced into service with the Armija Jugoslavije ('Army of Yugoslavia'), the army of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Both the Yugoslav 'green tiger stripe' and its blue variant were retained by the Vojska Srbije I Crne Gore ('Forces of Serbia and Montenegro'), where it continued in service until 2002. Vojska Republike Srpske ('Forces of the Serb Republic'; the Serb Republic is an autonomous republic within Bosnia & Herzegovina), which is effectively — albeit unofficially — an offshoot of the Vojska Srbije i Crne Gore ('Forces of Serbia and Montenegro') likewise used the blue and green tiger stripe camouflage pattern, as did Vojska Republike Srpske Krajine, ('Forces of Krayina-Serb Republic'), the ill-fated Serb enclave in Croatia.

Yugoslav 'green tiger stripe' was also worn by troops of the Ministarstvo unitrasnjih poslova ('Ministry of Interior Affairs'; MUP) and the Jedinica za Specijalne Operacije ('special operations unit'), the armed branch of the Drzavna bezbednost ('Security Agency').

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