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Why are all the military branches following the digital trend?

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Why are all the military branches abandoning their m81 BDUs, and copying off the marines marpat camouflage scheme and making their own versions. I'm not so sure that the new patterns are all that effective anyway. Do they do this to look cool?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/BDUs-forest.jpg/180px-BDUs-forest.jpg

Old pattern (used by all branches prior to Iraq war)

http://afidie.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/800px-marines_marpat.jpg

Marine Marpat (adopted at beginning of Iraq war)

http://www.soldiersperspective.us/images/December2006/ACU.jpg

Army combat uniform (2006)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Abu.jpg

Airman Battle Uniform (air force 2007)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/New_US_navy_Working_Uniform.jpg

Now the Navy in 2008. What next?

http://www.defencetimes.com/photos/data/685/medium/Chinese_Army_digital_camo.jpg

Oh, I forgot the Chinese are copying now!
Dude, the navy uniform is blue

Copying MARPAT? The very first digital uniform pattern was Canadian CADPAT (which was inspired by German Flecktarn and earlier Waffen-SS patterns). To be more accurate, everyone else is simply developing their own type of digital camouflage.

Simply put, digital camouflage works better than conventional DPM and Woodland style patterns. It comes as a bit of a surprise at first when troops parade around in pixellated shirts, but those pixels give off what is known as a "dithering" effect.

With older camouflage patterns like DPM and M81 Woodland, it's easier to distinguish between the various colors at anything shorter than long ranges, the pattern appears to "blob" and the uniform contrasts from the scenery. The smaller pixels or dots in digital and flecktarn patterns do a good job of tricking the eye at even close ranges.

USAF Fixes Its Color Conflict

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September 17, 2010: U.S. Air force personnel in Afghanistan have been buying (or scrounging from kindly army supply sergeants) the new MultiCam pattern uniforms.
Shurtape ACU Digital Duct Tape by US Cavalry

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