Comments on: Camouflage Comparison Results

By: Jordan

Jordan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:37:06 +0000

Very cool test!

I do have a suggestion for improving the comparison: don’t name the patterns, just call one A or B, 1 or 2, X or Y, whatever. That way the preconceived notions you may have about a particular pattern become less of a factor in the when observing the pattern.

Although you guys are probably so familiar with the patterns, it doesn’t matter.

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:35:44 +0000

I believe the General, as flawed as the decision might have been, chose the “Urban Track” pattern because of modern warfare itself. Specifically, there is a mindset/belief that most combat will take place in urban environments during future conflicts. Granted, I don't believe this to be the case (i.e. Afghanistan), but that might have been his reasoning for adopting the current ACU pattern. I think UCP blows as much as the next soldier, having worn it during my hooah days. I'd personally go with multi-cam after having personally seen it in many environments. The Brits, if I'm not mistaken, are adopting a version of multi-cam.

By: Amos

Amos — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:47:58 +0000

I really liked the Mirage stuff. Our team is currently using multicam and its pretty good. The ACU looks good in the sunlight but at night it almost eerie how it glows bright. We were doing recon on a house during a trianing and I wore the “old school” woodlands (still rock for certain mission) and I had to crawl in front of my team mate who was using the ACU pattern. Good comparison.

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By: Kevin Carlile

Kevin Carlile — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:52:52 +0000

During the Ft. Bragg testing a few years ago, do you remember testing a pattern called TimberGhost? If so, what did you think of it?

By: ITS Admin

ITS Admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:35:47 +0000

LOL! Hadn’t heard that one for ACU’s yet. Thanks for the kind words, and glad you liked the comparison! Look for more coming soon!

Thanks for the comment,
~ Bryan

By: SHEEPLEDOG

SHEEPLEDOG — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:35:22 +0000

Wow this took a lot of work….Thanks for the effort! I thought it was a great comparison. I’m also on the Multicam bandwagon but I may just have to procure some Mirage! Personally I always thought that ACU stood for Anyone-C’s-U!

By: Bo Li

Bo Li — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:09:16 +0000

Remember that the new uniform choosing is for afghanistan and not the redness that was shown here. It is true that multicam vs mirage, the mirage wins when there is more grey and red, but most often than not in afghanistan, yellow prevails. They both are good in their own ways, and need to replace ACU and UCP-D, but for middle-east, MC would be better

By: William Wick

William Wick — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:59:58 +0000

On my last tour we were in northern iraq and we found desert tigerstripes effective especially for low light and night time operations because of there base darker color led to less reflection of moonlight. any one know of there use in Afg or there effectiveness because thats our next stop

By: tacboy23

tacboy23 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:47:47 +0000

In the amazing environments you guys used I thought that the Marpat did the best. But the Mirage was a close second.