Thanks to reader JLC, we can offer these photos taken at the at Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition (TADTE) in Taiwan of this new digital pattern and uniform designed by Taiwan Military Armaments Bureau called the Digital Camouflage Combat Uniform (DCCU).
This Saturday sees the return of the long demented “Stuff we didn’t write about.” Quite frankly, it was a long week and we’ve barely recovered from OR.
So here are the topics:
Scots student makes breakthrough in ‘invisibility cloak’ theory
Company’s dummies help surgeons hone skills
Hacked toy truck saves soldiers’ lives (This is so 2003)
THE NORTH FACE – PONCHO Camouflage (This is so 1980s)
Haptic Vibrating Belts Guide U.S. Soldiers Through the Darkness
Project Run-a-Way: The Craziest Combat Outfits
HooToo Introduces Two Fashion Designed Cell Phone Signal Jammers
The Badlands and GreenZone images are actual photographs of the SPECOPS MBS-1 Combat BDU being field tested in Poland. The Sandstorm image is a simulation of the SOD Gear Spectre Shirt, Para Pants and Boonie Hat featured in a typical desert / arid environment. The Badlands and GreenZone images are courtesy of Michal Olszyca, the Sandstorm simulation was done on a photograph supplied by Military Morons.
It’s been over two years since we last mentioned that the Austrian Army was looking at new camo patterns. Starting in 2009, they began to investigate new camouflage for their Jagdkommandos. They’ve narrowed the field a bit and their new digital Mehrfarbentarnmuster (multicolor camo print) not only offers visual camouflage but also generates noise in electro-optical surveillance equipment such as night vision gear. In the photo above is the current monochrome uniform with three of the candidate patterns. As you can see, they are a curious combination of pixels and stripes.
According to Austrian Defence Minister Norbert Darabos, they are committed to fielding new camouflage. The final decision on which pattern(s) the Jagdkommandos will receive should be made later this fall with units fully equipped by fall of 2012.
Mystery Ranch let me in on a couple of upcoming products and as we went through the stacks of packs, they pulled out a NICE Frame in CADPAT-TW. This variant of the NICE frame will see limited fielding in the Canadian forces as a component of a weapons program.
MMI Outdoor showed me their new Individual Concealment Kit (Visual). It features a 5′ x 8′ of extremely lightweight material printed in their proprietary DEPSOC 360 pattern. It reverses from woodland to arid and includes a shock-cord pole and 4 stakes as well as carrying bag. The entire kit weighs 13.8 oz.
The stakes are worthy of a story in their own right. Recently approved by DLA, they are also included in MMI’s Enhanced Bed Net. They are made of a durable polymer and feature a screw-like body and hex head to make it easier to extract from frozen ground. If you break it, they’ll replace it.
Sweden’s Tac-Up Gear has a few new items in the pipeline.
NCWR Jacket
Boonie Hat
Signal Mesh Panel
Those tricksters over at Digital Concealment Systems launched a countdown clock for their new A-TACS FG (Forest Green) pattern designed for greener pastures. Unfortunately, a full unveiling is still three-and-a-half months off although the background for the clock gives you a hint of things to come.
