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 a military force 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.
The list is organized by pattern; only patterned textiles are shown. It includes current and past issue patterns, with dates; users may include armed, paramilitary, police, firefighting, search and rescue, counter-insurgency/counter-terrorism and other security forces and emergency services.

Patterns

NameFamilyImageIssuedUsers
Australian MulticamDisruptive Pattern Camouflage2014Australia
Airman Battle Uniform Digital tigerstripe2008Used by the United States Air Force and its civilian auxiliary the Civil Air Patrol.
AOR-1 Digital2010United States Navy, certain specialized units only.
AOR-2 Digital2010United States Navy, specialized units before 2016, fleet-wide after 2016.
A-TACSWoodland2010Used by Peruvian marines and the Haitian National Police. Unlicensed copies are used by the Russian Federation under the name of "Ataka".
Bundeswehr Tropentarn Flecktarn1993German Bundeswehr: tropical battle dress uniform for desert and semi-arid regions was also in use in the Danish army until they changed to M/01
Canadian Disruptive Pattern Digital2002Canada. Temperate variant shown.
Camouflage Europe CentraleWoodland1991France, India
Desert Camouflage Pattern Woodland1991Thailand, Egypt, United States
Desert Camouflage Pattern Woodland1980sUnited States. United Arab Emirates. 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, Spain , Yemen.
Desert Night Camouflage1991 c.United States
Disruptive Pattern CamouflageFrog Skin1986–2017Australian Defence Force
Disruptive Pattern MaterialDPM1968United Kingdom, DPM-95 shown. It replaced similar 1960 pattern DPM, introduced in 1968. Replaced by Multi-Terrain Pattern. Indonesia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway , Philippines, Russia, Yemen.
EMRDigital2011Russia
ErbsenmusterFlecktarn1944Germany
ERDL Woodland1967–1988Singapore Armed Forces, Turkish Armed Forces late 1980s–1990s, was used by the USMC until the early 1980s and the U.S. Air Force until the late 1980s.
Flächentarnmuster, also called Kartoffelmuster, or Blumentarn Flecktarn1956–1967East German National People's Army
FlecktarnFlecktarn1990Germany, and at least 16 variants in different countries.
Albania; Belgium; China until 2007; Denmark 3-color variant; France; India; Japan; Kyrgyzstan; Poland; Russia; Greece, Ukraine.
Frog Skin/SpotFrog Skin1942United States. Reversible: 5-color jungle one side, 3-color beach the other. Also sometimes called "Duckhunter." Used by the US, in World War II. Remained in use by the USMC into the 1960s. Also used by Turkey until 1980s in different colorways.
Hungarian camouflage pattern 2015MWoodland2015Used by the Hungarian Defence Force introduced in 2015.
HyperStealth Spec4ce Afghan ForestWoodland2009Used by the Afghan National Army since 2010.
JigsawPuzzle1956Belgium
Leibermuster1945Germany
LizardLizard1947France
Many variants, both with horizontal stripes and with vertical stripes.
Outside France, Tunisia has probably fielded more varieties of the lizard pattern than any other nation. Vietnam era Tigerstripe is a variant of Lizard.
M05Digital2007 c.Finland
M84Flecktarn1984Denmark; 9 color variants. Estonia: France; Latvia; Lithuania; Russia; Sweden; Turkey
M90Splinter1989Sweden; Latvia;
Marina Trans Jungle Digital2015Mexican Naval Infantry
Marine Pattern Digital2002United States Marine Corps, 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.
MultiCamWoodland2002U.S. Armed Forces, Angola, Brazil, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Montenegro, New Zealand, Panama, South Korea, Thailand, Bolivia, Tunisia, Turkish Navy Azerbaijani Armed Forces, the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, Georgian Armed Forces, and the Haitian National Police. Also known as Scorpion.
MultitarnFlecktarn2016Bundeswehr
Multi-Terrain PatternDisruptive Pattern Material2010British Armed Forces
NWU Type IDigital2008–2019United States Navy, New York State Naval Militia, and U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps. Due to be retired by the U.S. Navy in 2019.
Operational Camouflage Pattern Woodland2015–presentUnited States, replacing Universal Camouflage Pattern by 2019. An enlarged, slightly modified version of MultiCam. Also known as Scorpion W2.
PlatanenmusterFlecktarn1937Germany: summer and autumn variants.
Rain patternRain1960 c.Warsaw Pact countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Bulgaria

subsequent use: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
Rhodesian BrushstrokeBrushstroke1965–1980Rhodesia
Soldier 2000Woodland1994South Africa
SplittermusterSplinter1931Germany 1931–1945
Tactical Assault Camouflage Woodland2004U.S. National Counterterrorism Center
TAZ 83Woodland1983Switzerland
TAZ 90Woodland1990sSwitzerland
Telo mimeticoWoodland
precursor		1929Italy, for shelter-halves, then uniforms. Oldest mass-produced camouflage pattern.
TigerstripeTigerstripe1969 c.South Vietnam, US special forces in Vietnam. Based on Lizard. Many variants. Also used by Australia, New Zealand in Vietnam.
Turkish patternsemi-Digital2008 c.Turkish Armed Forces 5 variants Azerbaijani Armed Forces
Type 99 Woodland1999China
Type 07 Digital2007China. Ocean variant shown.
Universal Camouflage PatternDigital2005–2014/19United States Army, some U.S. Navy sailors assigned to army units, the Texas State Guard, Chadian Army, and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. Also used by the Iranian military in limited contexts.
U.S. Woodland Woodland1981Derived from ERDL. Used by the United States Navy SEALs, U.S. Navy SWCC, USMC MARSOC, Luxembourg, Argentine marines, Azerbaijani Armed Forces, the Dutch Marine Corps, Peruvian marines, and the Nigerian Navy. Was used by the Afghan National Army and the Mexican Naval Infantry in the 2000s. Also used by the Moldovan Special Forces, Malaysian navy, Malawian Army, Tunisian Army's Special Forces Group and Turkey until mid-2000s in 3 colorways.
VSR-93 FloraWoodland1993Russia
wz. 68 Moro1969–1989Poland; 6 variant colorways.
wz. 89 Puma1989–1993Poland
wz. 93 PanteraWoodland1993Poland
�Modified duck hunter patter�2018Vietnam