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prostheticknowledge: US Pixel Camouflage A $5 Billion Failure  It didn’t work - from The Daily: Over the next year, America’s largest fighting force is swapping its camouflage pattern. The move is a quiet admission that the last uniform — a pixelated design that debuted in 2004 at a cost of $5 billion — was a colossal mistake.Soldiers have roundly criticized the gray-green uniform for standing out almost everywhere it’s been worn. Industry insiders have called the financial mess surrounding the pattern a “fiasco.” … “Essentially, the Army designed a universal uniform that universally failed in every environment,” said an Army specialist who served two tours in Iraq, wearing UCP in Baghdad and the deserts outside Basra.  “The only time I have ever seen it work well was in a gravel pit.” More Here A question (if anyone out there has any idea) … does CADPAT (the original digital camo, patented by the Canadian Army in 1988) have the same problems?

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US Pixel Camouflage A $5 Billion Failure 

It didn’t work - from The Daily:

Over the next year, America’s largest fighting force is swapping its camouflage pattern. The move is a quiet admission that the last uniform — a pixelated design that debuted in 2004 at a cost of $5 billion — was a colossal mistake.

Soldiers have roundly criticized the gray-green uniform for standing out almost everywhere it’s been worn. Industry insiders have called the financial mess surrounding the pattern a “fiasco.”

… “Essentially, the Army designed a universal uniform that universally failed in every environment,” said an Army specialist who served two tours in Iraq, wearing UCP in Baghdad and the deserts outside Basra.  “The only time I have ever seen it work well was in a gravel pit.”

More Here

A question (if anyone out there has any idea) … does CADPAT (the original digital camo, patented by the Canadian Army in 1988) have the same problems?

Reblogged 10 months ago from murketing (Originally from prostheticknowledge)
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  7. brenanf999 answered: CADPAT tends to be to green in certain areas, but it is highly effectiv and to answer a comment its pixelated to reduce pattern recogniction.
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  9. parentheticalaside reblogged this from aka14kgold and added:
    I never understood the concept. Nature isn’t pixelated.
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  12. covenesque reblogged this from anotsosadsong and added:
    5 billion bfd but how many people have been killed for this mistake? I admittedly skimmed this article but any numbers...
  13. nanner reblogged this from anotsosadsong and added:
    And do you know every time they come out with a new pattern, my Dad has to buy like $500 for new uniforms plus getting...
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  20. nottobeadickoranything answered: the gravel pit called “society”
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  22. cruisingwithgunhead reblogged this from structuredestruct and added:
    No, CADPAT and it’s American derivative MARPAT (woodland version seen on the right) are both well-liked. It’s the color...
  23. penisennui answered: It’s my understanding that the design wasn’t the problem so much as trying to create one single camo for all situations.
  24. oh-whaaaaat reblogged this from youngoku and added:
    Hopefully they implement MultiCam.
  25. youngoku reblogged this from murketing and added:
    Shit never even looked like it blended with anything
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