Will the new uniform fit-in?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....nd-made-in-China.html

I cannot see how this new new camouflage design will fit in with the mainly sandy areas of Afghanistan, I notice that the model is posing amongst vegetation.

[another-view]

"The design process, which has taken six months and cost £250,000, involved a combination of computer analysis, where the colours from a variety of Afghan landscapes were studied, performance tests and also a "focus group" session, involving servicemen. "

Perhaps you should send them your concerns, as you appear to be an expert in this field.

[jno]

'(MoD) hope this will be of particular help in Afghanistan, where soldiers can find themselves, within a matter of minutes, crossing from arid desert to the lush vegetation of the "Green Zone" '

Obviously they need camouflage gear in which they can NOT find themselves, and neither can anyone else.

The real point, I suppose, is that Afghanistan is not entirely desert as you suggest.

[anotheoldgit]

another-view

No need for you to be sarcastic, I was merely pointing out my own observation and criticisms, just as one does over most designs, one doesn't have to be an expert. .

jno

I was not suggesting that Afghanistan is entirely desert (another of your lies) I was merely suggesting, maybe the new camouflage would not fit in with the MAINLY sandy areas.

If one watches scenes of our troops fighting on the front line or on foot patrol, one cannot fail to notice that these scenes are generally set in a desert type landscape.

[anotheoldgit]

EKnewsDS erh! thats the whole point of my argument, the soldier is posing surrounded by vegitation.

I don't think the Taliban will have trouble picking him out against a background of sand.

[jno]

tut, don't be so touchy. The current uniform is being used in Iraq, which is I believe far more sandy country than Afghanistan. They need a uniform that works for greener areas as well. Camouflage may work in ways that aren't necessarily apparent in posed still photos. Here's a camouflaged ship from WW1:

http://inel.files.wor...armuseumto18nov07.jpg

that's dazzle camouflage and it isn't designed to hide the ship as such, just to make it difficult for the enemy to figure out what it is and where it's going.

[rov1200]

My Dad said he would have preferred the new current outfits to those he had in the past especially those brown serge uniforms you often see in Dad's Army. Itchy, uncomfortable even the officers refused to wear them. Many could not wait to get out of them into their baggy fatigues. The colour was like sh?t and they lived up to it when having to wear them on parades.

[anotheoldgit]

Seems to me to be another M.O.D. cost cutting exercise, saves them providing two different uniforms.

[jackthehat]

And your point is, AOG ?
Surely if they can cut costs in one area the budget ought to then be able to stretch to other badly needed equipment ?

[jno]

do you expct them to stop and change clothes every time they come to a few shrubs in the desert? A uniform that copes with both types of terrain seems like a more useful idea.