MTP has been showing up in the craziest places.
Thanks Matt for the heads up and the USMC for the photo!
Archive for the ‘Camo’ Category
One of These Things Is Not Like the Others
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Canadians Testing Camo Boots
Monday, April 26th, 2010
Over the past several years we have seen numerous images of boots printed in CADPAT TW but now they are finally undergoing a test to determine the best color scheme for Canadian military footwear. Presently, DND has pitted CADPAT TW against the solid DND Maxi-Brown in a large-scale user wear trial to verify whether or not the latest version of the Temperate Combat Boot passes user acceptance for comfort and durability. A visual detection test will be conducted later this year to determine which version (CADPAT or Maxi-Brown) performs better in term of increasing soldier survivability through reducing their visual signature. Once the results of the user wear trial and visual detection test are compiled, the final version will be put to contract sometime in the 2011-2013 time frame.
All photos Canadian DND
UCP-Delta T-shirt
Saturday, April 24th, 2010If you were one of the guys who thought that UCP-Delta was really better than MultiCam then Rothco has just the thing for you. They have released a UCP-D’esque T-shirt made from PolyCotton and available in sizes Small – 3 X-Large. Click on the pic for the link.
Montenegro Goes MultiCam?
Friday, April 23rd, 2010Montenegrian troops serving with ISAF in Afghanistan are wearing some new duds. MultiCam? No, but it looks to be “inspired”.
Tell Me Again Why We Don’t Have Shorts
Friday, April 23rd, 2010Seems to work for the French…
First Operational Use of MTP
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Pics of Royal Marines on Op Herrick wearing the new Multi-Terrain Pattern developed by Crye Precision for the UK Ministry of Defence have begun to emerge.
This is Lt Col Paul James, Commanding Officer of 40 Commando Royal Marines taking over the Sangin area of operations in Helmand province, from Lt Col Nick Kitson, CO, 3 Rifles.
Thanks to Dom Hyde for identifying the source as the photos as the Helmland Blog.
Camo Scrubs
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Nursejoe is a supplier of military and civilian scrubs for working in extreme conditions. They offer a wide variety patterns, colors, and styles. Tops are available with or without name and rank pile tape and there are three styles of pocket choices. They also offer matching scrub pants for most tops. Depending on the style, pants feature an elastic waist band or draw string for comfort. Additionally, most pants also have two side pockets for storing various equipment, pens, etc. Camo prints are their specialty and they offer scrubs in MultiCam, woodland digital (MARPAT-like), the new Navy digital, Air Force tiger as well as UCP, in addition to several other patterns. Sizes vary from XS to 3XL, but beware their sizes run big. They also have scrub hats and surgical scrubs available. So if you are in the market for a set of “tactical” scrubs check out nursejoe.com
Face Camo
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Popular Science recently had an article on a study completed by Adam Harvey, a designer and technologist with NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program to develop camouflage to defeat face recognition technologies. Causing distortions around the eyes tended to be most effective. However, while the technique does fool detection software, it certainly doesn’t do much for blending in. It is kind of difficult to walk around with dark patches around the eyes and not stick out like a sore thumb garnering other forms of attention.
About this image:
Images with a red square tested positive, a face was found
Images without a red square tested negative, no face was found
Images under the section “TEST PATTERNS†are made according to results of the Haar deconstruction
Images under “RANDOM PATTERNS†are random doodles made without the anti-face detection patterns in mind
Images underneath the “NO PATTERNS†heading are left untouched to show that the face detection works well on simple line drawings
Line drawings are from Figure Drawing for Fashion Design
See the Adam Harvey Project for more info.
