Here’s an image of the tag in the original Scorpion uniforms by Crye Associates, now known as Crye Precision. I wish they’d do a T-shirt.
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Just contact Natick–they’ll make a very minor change to the logo, claim they aren’t violating any trademark protections, and then print all the t-shirts (with cheap materials that will peel after the first wash) you want. ;^)
Technically, Multicam is the knockoff of Scorpion which the Army had full rights to. Crye dev’d Scorpion for the early 00s competition and the Army had full rights to it. Then the Army pretended that competition didn’t happen so they could make a horrifically recolored MARPAT, which was in turn just a half-baked recolor of CADPAT. So Crye went and knocked off their own pattern and gave us Multicam and to really close the loop the newest CADPAT variant is just recolored to resemble Multicam. Camo development in the 21st century resembles the bloodlines of European royalty.
MTP=Habsburg jaw in my brain now. This will not be unseen
That’s the Army’s story…
https://ssdaily.tempurl.host/2014/09/22/crye-precisions-scorpion-contract-calls-into-question-army-claims-of-appropriate-rights/
Well, thats how evolution and iteration works. To be fair a lot of the smaller changes were good.m81 had devolved because of wear issues and gotten way too dark, the original scorpion and even pre2009 multicam were too sparse and light. Marpat woodland coloration wasn’t just blind selection( a horizontal version of Aor2 and a more universal pattern were some of the last competitors) and any real faults it has are because of the pattern and where they tested.
My concerns with scorpion-w2 all revolve around inconsistent printing. Some of the greens I’m seeing are day-glo when new and get absolutely crazy when faded- that really might have been CRYE’s best feature, the consistency their licensing helped reinforce.
The Army let the IP die on the vine to chase UCP.
Crye made the pattern commercially viable and turned it into the Juggernaut we know today. Had Crye left well enough alone and moved on entirely the pattern would have died there or been picked up by someone else. The Army certainly wasnt going to do anything with it. After Crye put all that work into making it what we now know it’s super disingenuous to claim it belonged to the army all along; especially after they left Crye high and dry with no money or contracts after they poured resources into effort.