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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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05-20-2011, 05:32 PM
lardman
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zuludelta
By camouflage I take it you mean "woodland camouflage"? Because the standard black wetsuits are inherently camouflaged themselves by virtue of being black.
Well possibly, but I was simply wondering whether camouflage was used for wetsuits (both for use in the underwater stages, as well as the out of the water stages). I'd guess that there are better colours to hide in underwater than black.
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And the reason you're aren't finding anything on Google is probably because you're searching for "camouflage wetsuits," which can be traced to a fault in the reference material you've drawn the term from. Combat swimmers from different countries do in fact use swimming attire printed in woodland (and other pattern) camouflage, but they aren't wetsuits. They are "drysuits" (that is, suits that are designed to prevent water from coming into contact with the wearer's skin, unlike wetsuits).
Here's an example of a camouflage drysuit in woodland/M81 camo:
http://www.specwargear.com/images/di...y%20suit-1.jpg
A Google image search for "camouflage drysuit" or "woodland camouflage drysuit" should yield more examples.
I'll have a look, thanks for pointing that out
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blackrazor1
I think this is just a wetsuit. It doesn't have the special cuffs drysuits have.
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zuludelta
Hmmm. Doesn't look like something used by any American combat swimming/diving units that I've seen. Are those Polish Special Commando Regiment frogmen? The camo pattern looks vaguely familiar, but I can't place where I've seen it before.
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Originally Posted by
zuludelta
Could be a commercial design as well that wasn't initially intended for actual government forces use. There are only a few "vertical" camo patterns that have been in official use among the major military organizations in the world since the 1960s, and the one in that picture doesn't conform to any one of them off the top of my head. It almost looks like the old "little oak" pattern used by the Soviets back in the day, but it's different somehow.
I'd seen this pattern too and thought it looked Germanic (though wondered whether it was a real pattern used by the military or a commercial one for civilians, etc.)
kamouflage.net — NVA Strichtarnmuster
Looks to have a similar vertical pattern, though obviously is not the same and is simply stripy (though that's what I was thinking of). I guess that pattern comes from this one:
kamouflage.net — Wehrmachts-Sumpfmuster 44
i.e. swamp/marsh patterning (which fits in with some sort of wet/drysuit usage and might explain the design of the unknown pattern above)
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blackrazor1
I've just seen it on the specwargear site. For a Vietnam era camo wetsuit. I'd think it'd either be foreign or spray painted.
Yes that was my assumption, but I was just wondering whether there were any decent sources around for any sorts of camouflage used for underwater equipment.
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