TOMMY-CAM: British Army Adopts Multi-Cam Equivalent

Nobody does it better. Congrats to the British Army!

Photos from Soldiersystems.net

http://soldiersystems.net/tag/dpm/

Story from CNN

www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/20/uk.army.camouflage/index.html

British troops to get first new camouflage in 40 years
December 20, 2009 10:12 a.m. EST

New camouflage, left, is designed to help troops blend into Afghan terrain better.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

British troops will get new camouflage uniforms for the first time in more than 40 years

New design is based on computer modeling of Afghanistan's terrain, defense ministry said

Project included aerial and scientific photography "to provide the right colors and their brightness"

London, England (CNN) -- British troops will get new camouflage uniforms for the first time in more than 40 years, based on computer modeling of Afghanistan's terrain, the Ministry of Defence announced Sunday.

The "multi-terrain pattern," as the military has dubbed the new design, is the first new pattern from the Ministry of Defence since 1968, it said.

It is specifically designed with Afghanistan's Helmand province in mind, the ministry said in a statement. The British military have suffered heavy losses in the southern province this year. More than 100 British troops have died in Afghanistan in 2009, making it the deadliest for UK troops in many years.

The new design was put together in six months, funded as an "urgent operational requirement" project worth £250,000 ($400,000).

"This new camouflage will help our troops blend into different environments in Helmand Province to stay hidden from the Taliban," Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth said in a statement.

The project included aerial and scientific photography in Afghanistan "to provide the right colors and their brightness," the ministry said. "The colors were fed into a computer and computer modeling was used to represent the Green Zone, deserts and mixed environments in Afghanistan."

Uniforms in the new pattern will be issued to 4 Mechanised Brigade troops deploying to Afghanistan in March, the ministry said. It will then be introduced across all three services starting in 2011.

http://www.combatreform.org/camie.htm

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[kongo034]

Sorry but you only have one picture of Multi Terrain Pattern in that whole video. The opening phot is of what was a proposed 3-colour des pattern under PECOC (similar to 4-colour des we sold to Iraq, hence having to hurriedly invent 2-colour des in 1991) with Hybrid DPM armour/PLCE, and that and currently issued kit is what you see after 1.44 also.

MTP will not neccesarily be a universal cam as 2-tone Des DPM will stay around for clothing. Also MTP is not Multicam, it has a different pattern.

[dynmicpara]

@kongo034 What part of Multi-Cam EQUIVALENT did you miss?

[iSmeLLbUd]

@leonidas1977livi yeah British MTP is 7 shades just to keep it British we added DPM into the cammo their is a shade of pink 2 this makes our soldiers in the heat haze of afghan look like foliage from a distance we just look like a rock or bush its really good cammo tbh

[Riyun72]

Great song, who did this version?

[Aliasify]

@PhantineXX1 Your a retard. Not that i should even lower myself to corret some pre-teen twat who plays soldier. This multi cam has been specificlly developed for use in the green belt in afghan, so little baby cadets like you ownt ever get a chance to wear it. The Normal DPM will be worn while at home. "i dont think they should change the camo" You are right, you dont think.

[TheMarcus1992]

@BlacktailDefense there is only 1 reason the U.S. hav chosen acu cus it looks cool same reson the use the v22 osprey although they hav probly all crashed by now

[owlscraig]

Atleast you wont kill us in freindly fire no more lol

[PhantineXX1]

i think you keep to your shitty american kit

the sa80 a2 is a great gun

the sound is the same for any 5.56 round or maybe you were not wearing ear defs

it looks better than your shitty m4 and the trigger is fine so shut the fuck up you stupid american prick

[PhantineXX1]

i dont think that we should change the camo

im in cadets and im proud to wear my dpm

but if they introduce the new camo into the cadet forces while im still in

im going to refuce to wear it

i dont want to look like an american pric

[MegaGewehr]

@4pintfoss

Keeping a stiff upper chin about your shitty rifle? I keed I keed. I also dug the looks of the SA80, but when I had a chance to fire it, I found it too loud, didn't like the ergos, and the trigger pull was meh. Follow up shots were a lot faster than with an M4 though.