List of military clothing camouflage patterns

This is a list of military clothing camouflage patterns used for battledress. Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by armed forces to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. Textile patterns for uniforms have multiple functions, including camouflage, identifying friend from foe, and esprit de corps.^[1]

1931 Splittertarnmuster (splinter pattern) first used for tents, then parachutists' jump smocks, and finally for infantry smocks

The list is organized by pattern; only patterned textiles are shown. It includes current and past issue patterns, with dates; users may include a wide range of military bodies.

Patterns

Name	Family	Image	Issued	Users
Airman Battle Uniform (ABU)	Digital tigerstripe		2008	Formerly used by the United States Air Force and currently used by its civilian auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol.[2][3][4]
Alpine Tundra Pattern	Woodland		2004	Snow camouflage of the French Armed Forces. It is typically worn by the Alpine Hunters of the 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade and other mountain units. It was developed by Terräng - MP-Sec France. The French Armed Forces were looking for a winter camo for their participation to the ISAF in Afghanistan.[5]
AOR-1 (NWU Type II)	Digital		2010	United States Navy, certain specialized units only.[6][7]
AOR-2 (NWU Type III)	Digital		2010	United States Navy, specialized units before 2016, fleet-wide after 2016.[8]
A-TACS	Woodland		2010	Used by Peruvian marines[9] and the Haitian National Police.[10] Unlicensed copies are used by the National Guard of Russia under the name of "Ataka".[11][12] "Original Foliage Green (FG)" variant shown.
Australian Multicam	Disruptive Pattern Camouflage		2014	Australia[13]
Bundeswehr Tropentarn (3-Farb-Tarndruck)	Flecktarn		1993	German Bundeswehr:[14] tropical battle dress uniform for desert and semi-arid regions (army and air force) was also in use in the Danish army until they changed to M/01
Canadian Disruptive Pattern (CADPAT)	Digital		2002	Canada; four operational variants (Temperate Woodland operational variant shown)[15]
Camouflage Central-Europe	Woodland		1994	French Armed Forces[16]
Digital Camouflage Combat Uniform (DCCU)	Digital		2011	Taiwanese Army and Air Force[17]
Desert Camouflage Pattern (three-color)	Woodland		1991	Thailand (VDC), Egypt, United States[18]
Desert Camouflage Pattern (six-color)	Woodland		1980s	United States (formerly).[19] United Arab Emirates (formerly).[20] Used by many other armies in many colour and pattern variations, including Argentina, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Kuwait, Niger, Paraguay, Peru, China, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Libya, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Korea (formerly), Spain (only in arid theaters) (formerly), Yemen.[21]
Desert Night Camouflage	?		1991 c.	United States (formerly)[22]
Disruptive Pattern Camouflage	Frog Skin		1986–2017	Australian Defence Force
Disruptive Pattern Material	DPM		1968	United Kingdom, DPM-95 shown. It replaced similar 1960 pattern DPM, introduced in 1968.[23] Replaced by Multi-Terrain Pattern. Indonesia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway (special forces) (formerly), Philippines, Russia, Yemen.
EMR Camouflage	Digital		2011	Russia[24]
Erbsenmuster	Flecktarn		1944	Germany[25]
Erbsentarnmuster	Flecktarn		1957 - 1978	Austrian Armed Forces[26]
ERDL (M1948)	Woodland		1967–1988	Singapore Armed Forces,[27] Turkish Armed Forces late 1980s–1990s,[28] was used by the USMC until the early 1980s and the U.S. Air Force until the late 1980s.
Flächentarnmuster, also called Kartoffelmuster (potato pattern), or Blumentarn (flower camouflage)	Flecktarn		1956–1967	East German National People's Army[29]
Flecktarn	Flecktarn		1990	Germany,[30] and at least 16 variants in different countries. Albania;[31] Belgium;[32] China until 2007;[33] Denmark 3-color variant;[34] France;[35] India;[36] Japan;[37] Kyrgyzstan;[38] Poland;[39] Russia;[11] Greece, Ukraine.
Frog Skin/Spot	Frog Skin		1942	United States. Reversible: 5-color jungle one side, 3-color beach the other.[40] Also sometimes called "Duckhunter." Used by the US, (primarily the USMC) in World War II. Remained in use by the USMC into the 1960s. Also used by Turkey until 1980s in different colorways.[28]
Hungarian camouflage pattern 2015M	Woodland		2015	Used by the Hungarian Defence Force introduced in 2015.[41]
HyperStealth Spec4ce Afghan Forest	Woodland		2009	Used by the Afghan National Army since 2010.[42]
Jigsaw	Puzzle		1956	Belgium[43]
Leibermuster	Woodland		1945	Germany[44]
Lizard	Lizard		1947	France[45] Many variants, both with horizontal stripes (Chad, Gabon, Rwanda, Sudan, Cuba, Congo, Greece) and with vertical stripes (Portugal 1963, then Egypt, Greece, India, Lebanese Palestinians, and Syria). Outside France, Tunisia has probably fielded more varieties of the lizard pattern than any other nation.[46] Vietnam era Tigerstripe is a variant of Lizard.[45]
M05	Digital		2007 c.	Finland[47]
MM-14	Digital		2014	Ukrainian Army camouflage used since 2014, replacing the Dubok camo that was developed in 1980 and in service since 1984.[48][49] Ukraine though now has multiple patterns that it received from NATO and other western partners since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Ukraine uses yellow, blue and green markings (usually in a form of a duck tape) on the uniform to prevent friendly fire.
M19 Netherlands Fractal Pattern Green (NFP-Green)	Flecktarn		2019	NFP Green, Standard issued camouflage since 2019 in the Royal Netherlands Army .[50][51] This camouflage is designed to be used in green areas, woods, and urban areas in Europe. Three additional colour variations are in use and are shown below. An arctic version of the NFP is being considered.[52]
M19 NFP-Multitone	Flecktarn		2019	NFP Multitone is in use in the Royal Netherlands Army. It is used for packs and load carriage equipment. The fabric being courser, it is difficult to incorporate all the details. I uses therefore less colours than the Tan and the Green, and takes mixes both so that they can use it in both environments efficiently enough.[53]
M19 NFP-Navy	Flecktarn		2020	In use in the Royal Dutch Navy since 2020, and used by the Belgian Navy since 2021[54]
M19 NFP-Tan	Flecktarn		2019	Camouflage in use in the Royal Netherlands Army in desert and arid climates.[55]
M20 WoodLatPat	Splinter	—	2020	The Latvian Land Forces unveiled a new standard camouflage pattern. It uses a similar concept to the Swedish M90 Splinter camo, but with smaller shapes.[56][57]
M84	Flecktarn		1984	Denmark; 9 color variants.[58] France;[34][59][60] Latvia;[61] Lithuania;[61] Russia;[34] Sweden;[62] Turkey;[63] Was used by Estonian Defence Forces until 2006, when it was replaced with ESTDCU[64]
M90F	Splinter		1989[65]	Standard camouflage of the Swedish armed forces.[66] The Latvian Land Forces used it in 1996 for the SFOR mission, the uniforms were surplus equipment of the Swedish Army.[56][67] Two additional colour patterns exist and described below.
M90K	Splinter		2004	Introduced for the Afghan mission of the Swedish armed forces, colours of the standard M90F were changed for an arid environment.[68]
M90 Winter	Splinter		—	Used by Sweden and by the Royal Netherlands Army special force group Korps Commandotroepen (KCT)
M2017	Woodland		2017	Introduced for the Romanian Armed Forces in 2017. Has three variants: Army, Navy, and Air Force. Similar to MultiCam.[69]
Marina Trans Jungle (US4CES)	Digital	—	2015	Mexican Naval Infantry
Marine Pattern (MARPAT)	Digital		2002	United States Marine Corps (arid variant shown),[70][71] some U.S. Navy sailors assigned to USMC units, and U.S. Marine Corps JROTC cadets. The temperate variant was used by the Georgian Army in the late 2000s, but has since been replaced by a domestic variant of MultiCam.[72][circular reference]
MultiCam	Woodland		2002	U.S. Armed Forces,[73] Angola,[74] Brazil,[75] Australia,[76][77] Austrian Armed Forces Jagdkommando,[78] Cypriot National Guard,[79] Denmark,[34][58] Montenegro,[80] New Zealand,[81] Panama,[82] South Korea,[83] Thailand,[84] Bolivia, Tunisia,[85] Turkish Navy[28] Azerbaijani Armed Forces, the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, Georgian Armed Forces,[86][circular reference] and the Haitian National Police.[87] Also known as Scorpion. Norwegian Special Forces (FSK, MJK)[88][89]
Multi-Environment Pattern [fr]	Woodland		2024	French Army,[90] the BME (Bariolage Multi-Environnement) will replace the Central Europe Pattern and the Daguet Desert Pattern from 2024. The pattern was designed by the Technical Section of the Army [fr]. The base colour is the one used on all new French vehicles, "Brown French Soil" (Brun Terre de France).
Multi-Environment Winter Pattern [fr]	Woodland	—	2024	French Army,[90] it will replace the Alpine Tundra Pattern from 2024. This pattern is used by the "Alpine Rangers"[91] (Chasseurs Alpins). It uses the same pattern as the BME but with a white background, light gray spots, and small patches made of a darker colour based on a humid trunk.[92]
Multitarn	Flecktarn		2016	In 2016, the Bundeswehr Research Institute for Materials and Operating Materials (WIWeB) developed a universal camouflage following the lead of many allies in their purchase of the MultiCam camo for their special forces, and its 6 colours are very close to it. It was developed as the new standard pattern for the Bundeswehr but has yet only entered service with the special forces.[93][94]
Multi-Terrain Pattern	Disruptive Pattern Material		2010	British Armed Forces,[95] it is a combination of the Army's previous camouflage, DPM and MultiCam. It is supposedly more effective than MultiCam itself, due to the integration of more natural and fluid shapes of the DPM pattern.[96]
NWU Type I	Digital		2008–2019	United States Navy,[97] New York State Naval Militia,[98] and U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps.[99] Retired by the U.S. Navy in 2019.
Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP)	Woodland		2015	United States, replacing Universal Camouflage Pattern by 2019.[100] An enlarged, slightly modified version of MultiCam. Also known as Scorpion W2.
Platanenmuster	Flecktarn		1937	Germany: summer (shown) and autumn variants.[25]
Rain pattern	Rain		1960 c.	Warsaw Pact countries: Poland ("deszczyk"), Czechoslovakia ("jehličí"), East Germany ("Strichtarn"), and Bulgaria[101][102] subsequent use: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
Rhodesian Brushstroke	Brushstroke		1965–1980	Rhodesia[103]/Zimbabwe
Semi pixelated Arid Desert pattern	semi-Digital		2012	Pakistan Army[104]
Soldier 2000	Woodland		1994	South Africa[105]
Splittermuster	Splinter		1931	Germany 1931–1945 (Wehrmacht, SS, Reichswehr)[106]
Tactical Assault Camouflage (TACAM)	Organic, non-pixelated pattern		2004	U.S. National Counterterrorism Center[107][108]
Tarnanzug ÖBH [de]	Organic, non-pixelated pattern		2017	Austrian Armed Forces[109][110]
Tarnanzug Beige ÖBH [de]	Woodland		2019	Austrian Armed Forces[109][110]
Tarndruck Beige PXL	Digital pattern		2011	Austrian Armed Forces[111][112]
Tarndruck SEK PXL	Digital pattern		2014	Austrian Armed Forces[111][112]
TAZ 83	Woodland		1983	Switzerland[113]
TAZ 90	Woodland		1990s	Switzerland[113]
TAZ 07	Woodland		2007	Switzerland[114] Only used for missions abroad, such as in arid countries (Mali), it can also be used in missions abroad in summer in countries such as Kosovo (Swisscoy as part of KFOR) or in South Korea (NNSC mission). The pattern is based on the TAZ 90.
Multiumfeld-Tarnmuster 16 [uk].[115]	Woodland		2022	Switzerland[116][117] This camouflage will be the standard one for the new personal equipment of the Swiss Army (MBAS armament program). The pattern is based on the TAZ 90, and the black colour was replaced by a light brown, and is also designed to provide multispectral stealth properties (IR and radar).
Telo mimetico	Woodland precursor		1929	Italy, for shelter-halves, then uniforms. Oldest mass-produced camouflage pattern.[118]
Tigerstripe	Tigerstripe		1969 c.	South Vietnam, US special forces in Vietnam. Based on Lizard. Many variants. Also used by Australia, New Zealand in Vietnam.[119][120]
Turkish M2008 'Nano'	semi-Digital		2008-2021	Turkish Armed Forces and Azerbaijani Armed Forces 5 variants[28]
Turkish M2021	semi-Digital		2021	Turkish Armed Forces and Azerbaijani Armed Forces 4 variants[28]
Type 99 (China)	Woodland		1999	China[121]
Type 07 (China)	Digital		2007	China. Ocean variant shown.[121]
Universal Camouflage Pattern	Digital		2005–2014/19	United States Army,[122] some U.S. Navy sailors assigned to army units,[123] the Texas State Guard,[124] Chadian Army,[125] and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. Also used by the Iranian military in limited contexts.
U.S. Woodland ("M81")	Woodland		1981	Derived from ERDL.[126] Used by the United States Navy SEALs, U.S. Navy SWCC, USMC MARSOC,[127] Luxembourg,[128] Argentine marines,[129] Azerbaijani Armed Forces, Bangladesh Army,[130] the Dutch Marine Corps,[131] Peruvian marines,[132] and the Nigerian Navy.[133] Was used by the Afghan National Army and the Mexican Naval Infantry[134] in the 2000s. Also used by the Moldovan Special Forces,[135][136] Malaysian navy,[137] Malawian Army, Tunisian Army's Special Forces Group[138] and Turkey until mid-2000s in 3 colorways.[28]
VSR-93 Flora	Woodland		1993	Russia[139]
wz. 68 Moro	"Worm pattern" [140]		1969–1989	Polish People's Army; 6 variant colorways.[141][142][143]
wz. 89 Puma	"Reptile Pattern" [140]		1989–1993	Polish Armed Forces,[144] National Army of Afghanistan.[145]
wz. 93 Pantera	Woodland		1993	Polish Armed Forces,[146] Armed Forces of Ukraine,[147] Armed Forces of Armenia.[148]
K17[149](Type 17)	Modified duck hunter pattern		2017/2018	Vietnam;[150][151] 5 variant colorways
K20 (Type 20)	Woodland		2019/2020–present	Vietnam; 6 variant colorways[152]
M06 ESTDCU	Digital		2006	Estonian Defence Forces[153]
M/98 Woodland	Woodland		1998–Present	Norway[154]
Graphite B [ko]	Digital		2011-present	South Korea[155][156]

See also

• Military uniform
• Snow camouflage#Military usage