3-color Desert Camouflage Pattern
To provide a desert uniform with enhanced camouflage, the Army, in October 1990, adopted a new three-color desert camouflage pattern to replace the six-color pattern. [1]
Colors
- Tan 492
- Brown 493
- Khaki 494
Material
- desert camouflage uniform (coat, trousers, and hat): cotton/nylon twill, MIL-C-44034, later replaced by cotton/nylon ripstop poplin, MIL-C-44436. [2]
References
- http://soldiers.dodlive.mil/2015/06/battle-dress-through-the-centuries/
- Evaluation of Desert Camouflage Uniforms by Ground Observers [pdf page 7]
- http://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/1991/MAY-JUN/pdfs/MAY-JUN1991.pdf - page 6
- https://www.benning.army.mil/magazine/1991/1991_6/inf_news.pdf - page 4
Notes
- ↑ http://www.history.army.mil/books/DAHSUM/1990-91/ch04.htm - page 58
- ↑ AR 670-1, 2002, page 28; MIL-C-44048 revision F, G and H.
