List of military clothing camouflage patterns
Patterns
Table:
Military camouflage patterns of the 20th and 21st centuries

Name
Family
Image
Issued
Users

Australian Multicam
Woodland

2014
Australia[2]

Airman Battle Uniform (ABU)
Digital tigerstripe

2008
Used by the United States Air Force and its civilian auxiliary the Civil Air Patrol.[3][4][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 Russian Federation under the name of "Ataka".[11][12]

Bundeswehr Tropentarn (3-Farb-Tarndruck)
Flecktarn

1993
German Bundeswehr:[13] 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. Temperate variant shown.[14]

Camouflage Europe Centrale
Woodland

1991
France

Desert Camouflage Pattern (three-color)
Woodland

1991
Thailand (VDC), United States[15]

Desert Camouflage Pattern (six-color)
Woodland

1980s
United States (formerly).[16] United Arab Emirates (formerly).[17] Used by many other armies in many colour and pattern variations, including Argentina, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Kuwait, Niger, Paraguay, Peru, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Libya, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Korea (formerly), Spain, Yemen.[18]

Desert Night Camouflage

1991 c.
United States (formerly)[19]

Disruptive Pattern Camouflage
Woodland

1986–2017
Australian Defence Force

Disruptive Pattern Material
DPM

1968
United Kingdom, DPM-95 shown. It replaced similar 1960 pattern DPM, introduced in 1968.[20] Replaced by Multi-Terrain Pattern. Indonesia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Russia, Yemen.

Erbsenmuster
Flecktarn

1944
Germany[21]

ERDL (M1948)
Woodland

1967–1988
Singapore Armed Forces,[22] Turkish Armed Forces late 1980s–1990s,[23] was used by the USMC until the early 1980s and the U.S. Air Force until the late 1980s.

Flächentarnmuster, also called Kartoffelmuster (potato), or Blumentarn (flower)
Flecktarn

1956–1967
East German National People's Army[24]

Flecktarn
Flecktarn

1990
Germany,[25] and at least 16 variants in different countries.
Albania;[26] Belgium;[27] China until 2007;[28] Denmark 3-color variant;[29] France;[30] India;[31] Japan;[32] Kyrgyzstan;[33] Poland;[34] Russia;[11] Greece, Ukraine.

Frog Skin/Spot
Frog Skin

1942
United States. Reversible: 5-color jungle one side, 3-color beach the other.[35] 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.[23]

HyperStealth Spec4ce Afghan Forest
Woodland

2009
Used by the Afghan National Army since 2010.[36]

Jigsaw
Puzzle

1956
Belgium[37]

Leibermuster

1945
Germany[38]

Lizard
Lizard

1947
France[39]
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.[40] Vietnam era Tigerstripe is a variant of Lizard.[39]

M05
Digital

2007 c.
Finland[41]

M84
Flecktarn

1984
Denmark; 9 color variants.[42] Estonia:[43] France;[29][44][45] Latvia;[43] Lithuania;[43] Russia;[29] Sweden;[46] Turkey[47]

M90
Splinter

1989[48]
Sweden;[49] Latvia;[50][better source needed]

Marina Trans Jungle (US4CES)
Digital

2015
Mexican Naval Infantry[51]

Marine Pattern (MARPAT)
Digital

2002
United States Marine Corps (arid variant shown),[52][53] 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.[54][better source needed]

MultiCam
Woodland

2002
U.S. Armed Forces,[55] Angola,[56] Brazil,[57] Australia,[58][59] Austria,[60] Denmark,[29][42] Montenegro,[61] New Zealand,[62] Panama,[63] South Korea,[64] Thailand,[65] Bolivia, Tunisia,[66] Turkish Navy[23] Azerbaijani Armed Forces, the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, Georgian Armed Forces,[67][better source needed] and the Haitian National Police.[68] Also known as Scorpion.

Multitarn
Flecktarn

2016
Bundeswehr[69]

Multi-Terrain Pattern
Disruptive Pattern Material

2010
British Armed Forces[70]

NWU Type I
Digital

2008–present
United States Navy,[71] New York State Naval Militia,[72] and U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps.[73] Due to be retired by the U.S. Navy in 2019.

Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP)
Woodland
File:Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP), Scorpion W2 swatch.jpg
2015–present
United States, replacing Universal Camouflage Pattern by 2019.[74] An enlarged, slightly modified version of MultiCam. Also known as Scorpion W2.

Platanenmuster
Flecktarn

1937
Germany: summer (shown) and autumn variants.[21]

Rain pattern
Rain

1960 c.
Warsaw Pact countries: Poland ("deszczyk"), Czechoslovakia ("jehličí"), East Germany ("Strichtarn"), and Bulgaria[75][76]

subsequent use: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan

Rhodesian Brushstroke
Brushstroke

1965–1980
Rhodesia[77]

Soldier 2000
Woodland

1994
South Africa[78]

Splittermuster
Splinter

1931
Germany 1941–1944 (Wehrmacht, SS)[79]

Tactical Assault Camouflage (TACAM)
Woodland
File:TACAMCAMO.PNG
2004
U.S. National Counterterrorism Center[80][81]

TAZ 90
Woodland

1990s
Switzerland[82]

Telo mimetico
Woodland
precursor

1929
Italy, for shelter-halves, then uniforms. Oldest mass-produced camouflage pattern.[83]

Tigerstripe
Tigerstripe

1969 c.
South Vietnam, US special forces in Vietnam. Based on Lizard. Many variants. Also used by Australia, New Zealand in Vietnam.[84][85]

Turkish pattern
semi-Digital

2008 c.
Turkish Armed Forces[86] 5 variants[23] Azerbaijani Armed Forces

Type 99 (China)
Woodland

1999
China[87]

Type 07 (China)
Digital

2007
China. Ocean variant shown.[87]

Universal Camouflage Pattern
Digital

2005–2014/19
United States Army,[88] some U.S. Navy sailors assigned to army units,[89] the Texas State Guard,[90] Chadian Army,[91] and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. Also used by the Iranian military in limited contexts.

U.S. Woodland ("M81")
Woodland

1981
Derived from ERDL.[92] Used by the United States Navy SEALs, U.S. Navy SWCC, USMC MARSOC,[93] Luxembourg,[94] Azerbaijani Armed Forces, the Dutch Marine Corps,[95] Peruvian marines,[96] and the Nigerian Navy.[97][98] Was used by the Afghan National Army and the Mexican Naval Infantry[99] in the 2000s. Also used by the Moldovan Special Forces,[100][101] Malaysian navy,[102] Malawian Army, Tunisian Army's Special Forces Group[103] and Turkey until mid-2000s in 3 colorways.[23]

wz. 68 Moro

1969–1989
Poland; 6 variant colorways.[104][105][106]

wz. 89 Puma

1989–1993
Poland[107]

wz. 93 Pantera
Woodland

1993
Poland[108]

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