What's the best camouflage pattern?
For me, in first place, from personal use as much as anything else, British Disruptive Pattern Material (DPM).
A groundbreaking camouflage pattern that possibly influenced the French CCE (Camouflage Central Europe) and the American Woodland pattern. I stand to be corrected, but it was also possibly the first camouflage pattern to be issued to all troops within a nation’s military.
In the RAF Regiment, it was called DP, and some would say that was because DPM was one letter too many for them to use in one sentence. I used it, and I liked it.
Interestingly, four years before the Gulf War, Britain sold its desert uniforms to Iraq, so come Op Granby, they had no appropriate gear to issue to the troops. What they came up with pretty quickly was a desert version of DPM, although, again, us in the RAF Regiment simply called it, desert DP.
Other patterns that I liked were the Rhodesian pattern.
Camo aside, the Rhodesian troops themselves were the absolute dog’s bollocks. The camo pattern was officially known as Rhodesian Brushstroke, and it served from 1965 to 1980. The US Marines considered adopting it in 2000, but decided not to.
And finally, I also really like Flecktarn, the German camo pattern.
Quite new to the camouflage scene, it’s been around since 1990, but it’s still a badass looking camo pattern, and combined with the German troops, who really know their stuff, it’s a match made in military heaven.
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