Let’s take a look now at military camouflage (or concealment tech, as it’s better known nowadays). We can further split areas of effect into two subcategories, the first being visual, the other non-visual. To recap, camouflage is designed for a specific environment or task.

In this post, we’ll focus on the visual differences and inherent properties of the patterns. In a separate post, we touched on the differences between hunting camo patterns and those for military use. In an earlier post, we discussed the different types of camouflage. Indeed, the science at this point is millenia old, but it is really only in the last hundred years that camouflage producers acquired the deep understanding of the laws of physics and physiology that permit the remarkable array of camo patterns and camo colours now available to military forces around the world. As you’ll come to appreciate by reading this post, modern military camouflage works as well as it does because it is based on long-settled scientific precepts.

Traditionally, camouflage is a pattern-and-colour design formulation intended to make soldiers and equipment less visible to enemy eyes. But among the very most effective disguises is camouflage, the purpose of which is to make soldiers and equipment less visible to enemy eyes. The least effective disguise is a fake mustache. There are various ways by which soldiers can disguise themselves to either avoid an encounter with hostile forces or gain over them the element of surprise.

Light green camo on modern russian tank