It is perhaps for this reason that the Marines could not come to an agreement with the Army on sharing the new digital camo. The Army then began its own camo development from 2002–2004 ...

The U.S. Army will soon replace its digital, Universal Camouflage Pattern, but soldiers may still be wearing the service's Afghanistan pattern for many years into the future. The Army's recent ...

Ask the man dubbed “the father of digital camouflage” about fatal flaws in the U.S. military's uniform-concealment choices and he’ll give you a punch line.

An Army Ranger student lifts a rucksack onto her back in 2015 at Camp James E. Rudder on Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The Army is exploring whether to overdye old camouflage rucksacks to match the ...

The ruling marks a reversal from a decade ago when the Air Force was quick to adopt its own digital pattern after the Army unveiled its new pixilated Universal Camouflage Pattern in 2004.

The Army began designing the digital, grayish and ultimately doomed universal camouflage pattern as the Marines prepared to roll out their two new digital patterns, which the Corps fielded in 2002.

What makes the Marines' digital camouflage unique is also its greatest weakness for the military as a whole. MARPAT is patented, and the Corps has proven an aggressive defender of its intellectual ...

Camouflage is an integral part in both hunting and combat in the military, and it isn’t hard to see why. After all, if you are out hunting and the animal can easily spot you, it will run and ...

Called camouflage, using colors, patterns, or pieces of local plants or bits of the environment to “hide in plain sight” is ...

In 2004, the U.S. Army made a colossal mistake. It introduced a new digital camouflage called the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP), a single pattern designed to work across all environments.