List of military clothing camouflage patterns


This is a list of military clothing camouflage patterns used for battledress. Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by armed forces to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. Textile patterns for uniforms have multiple functions, including camouflage, identifying friend from foe, and esprit de corps.
The list is organized by pattern; only patterned textiles are shown. It includes current and past issue patterns, with dates; users may include a wide range of military bodies.

Patterns

NameFamilyImageIssuedUsers
Airman Battle Uniform Digital tigerstripe2008Formerly used by the United States Air Force and currently used by its civilian auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol.
Alpine Tundra PatternWoodland2004Snow camouflage of the French Armed Forces. It is typically worn by the Alpine Hunters of the 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade and other mountain units.
It was developed by Terräng - MP-Sec France. The French Armed Forces were looking for a winter camo for their participation to the ISAF in Afghanistan.
AOR-1 Digital2010United States Navy, certain specialized units only.
AOR-2 Digital2010United States Navy, specialized units before 2016, fleet-wide after 2016.
A-TACSWoodland2010Used by Peruvian marines and the Haitian National Police. Unlicensed copies are used by the National Guard of Russia under the name of "Ataka". "Original Foliage Green " variant shown.
Australian MulticamDisruptive Pattern Camouflage2014Australia
Bundeswehr Tropentarn Flecktarn1993German Bundeswehr: tropical battle dress uniform for desert and semi-arid regions was also in use in the Danish army until they changed to M/01
Canadian Disruptive Pattern Digital2002Canada; four operational variants
Camouflage Central-EuropeWoodland1994French Armed Forces
Camouflage Pattern No. 4Digital
Semi-MARPAT		2009Singapore Armed Forces
Digital Camouflage Combat Uniform Digital2011Taiwanese Army and Air Force
Desert Camouflage Pattern (three-color)Woodland1991Thailand, Egypt, United States
Desert Camouflage Pattern (six-color)Woodland90px1980sUnited States. United Arab Emirates. Used by many other armies in many colour and pattern variations, including Argentina, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Kuwait, Niger, Paraguay, Peru, China, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Libya, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Korea, Spain, Yemen.
Desert Night Camouflage1991 c.United States
Disruptive Pattern CamouflageFrog Skin1986–2017Australian Defence Force
Disruptive Pattern MaterialDPM1968United Kingdom, DPM-95 shown. It replaced similar 1960 pattern DPM, introduced in 1968. Replaced by Multi-Terrain Pattern. Indonesia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Russia, Yemen.
Darah MengalirDPM1964Indonesia, Kopassus
EMR CamouflageDigital2011Russia
ErbsenmusterFlecktarn1944Germany
ErbsentarnmusterFlecktarn1957 - 1978Austrian Armed Forces
ERDL Woodland
1967–1988Singapore Armed Forces, Turkish Armed Forces late 1980s–1990s, was used by the USMC until the early 1980s and the U.S. Air Force until the late 1980s.
Flächentarnmuster, also called Kartoffelmuster, or Blumentarn Flecktarn1956–1967East German National People's Army
FlecktarnFlecktarn1990Germany, and at least 16 variants in different countries.
Albania; Belgium; China until 2007; Denmark 3-color variant; France; India; Japan; Kyrgyzstan; Poland; Russia; Greece, Ukraine.
Frog Skin/SpotFrog Skin1942United States. Reversible: 5-color jungle one side, 3-color beach the other. Also sometimes called "Duckhunter." Used by the US, in World War II. Remained in use by the USMC into the 1960s. Also used by Turkey until 1980s in different colorways.
Hungarian camouflage pattern 2015MWoodland2015Used by the Hungarian Defence Force introduced in 2015.
HyperStealth Spec4ce Afghan ForestWoodland2009Used by the Afghan National Army since 2010.
JigsawPuzzle1956Belgium
LeibermusterWoodland1945Germany
LizardLizard1947France
Many variants, both with horizontal stripes and with vertical stripes.
Outside France, Tunisia has probably fielded more varieties of the lizard pattern than any other nation. Vietnam era Tigerstripe is a variant of Lizard.
M05Digital2007 c.Finland
M10Digital2011Standard camouflage of the Serbian Armed Forces.
MM-14Digital2014Ukrainian Army camouflage used since 2014, replacing the Dubok camo that was developed in 1980 and in service since 1984.
Ukraine though now has multiple patterns that it received from NATO and other western partners since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Ukraine uses yellow, blue and green markings on the uniform to prevent friendly fire.
M19
Netherlands Fractal Pattern Green (NFP-Green)		Flecktarn2019NFP Green, Standard issued camouflage since 2019 in the Royal Netherlands Army . This camouflage is designed to be used in green areas, woods, and urban areas in Europe.
Three additional colour variations are in use and are shown below. An arctic version of the NFP is being considered.
M19
NFP-Multitone		Flecktarn2019NFP Multitone is in use in the Royal Netherlands Army.
It is used for packs and load carriage equipment. The fabric being coarser, it is difficult to incorporate all the details. I uses therefore less colours than the Tan and the Green, and takes mixes both so that they can use it in both environments efficiently enough.
M19
NFP-Navy		Flecktarn2020In use in the Royal Dutch Navy since 2020, and used by the Belgian Navy since 2021
M19
NFP-Tan		Flecktarn2019Camouflage in use in the Royal Netherlands Army in desert and arid climates.
M20
WoodLatPat		Splinter—2020The Latvian Land Forces unveiled a new standard camouflage pattern. It uses a similar concept to the Swedish M90 Splinter camo, but with smaller shapes.
M84Flecktarn1984Denmark; 9 color variants. France; Latvia; Lithuania; Russia; Sweden; Turkey; Was used by Estonian Defence Forces until 2006, when it was replaced with ESTDCU
M90FSplinter1989Standard camouflage of the Swedish armed forces. The Latvian Land Forces used it in 1996 for the SFOR mission, the uniforms were surplus equipment of the Swedish Army.
Two additional colour patterns exist and described below.
M90KSplinter2004Introduced for the Afghan mission of the Swedish armed forces, colours of the standard M90F were changed for an arid environment.
M90 WinterSplinter—Used by Sweden and by the Royal Netherlands Army special force group Korps Commandotroepen (KCT)
M2017Woodland2017Introduced for the Romanian Armed Forces in 2017. Has three variants: Army, Navy, and Air Force. Similar to MultiCam.
Marina Trans Jungle Digital—2015Mexican Naval Infantry
Marine Pattern Digital2002United States Marine Corps, some U.S. Navy sailors assigned to USMC units, and U.S. Marine Corps JROTC cadets. The temperate variant was used by the Georgian Army in the late 2000s, but has since been replaced by a domestic variant of MultiCam.
MultiCamWoodland2002U.S. Armed Forces, Angola, Brazil, Australia, Austrian Armed Forces Jagdkommando, Cypriot National Guard, Denmark, Montenegro, New Zealand, Panama, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Bolivia, Tunisia, Turkish Navy Azerbaijani Armed Forces, the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, Georgian Armed Forces, and the Haitian National Police. Also known as Scorpion. Norwegian Special Forces
Woodland2024French Army, the BME will replace the Central Europe Pattern and the Daguet Desert Pattern from 2024.
The pattern was designed by the. The base colour is the one used on all new French vehicles, "Brown French Soil".
Woodland—2024French Army, it will replace the Alpine Tundra Pattern from 2024.
This pattern is used by the "Alpine Rangers". It uses the same pattern as the BME but with a white background, light gray spots, and small patches made of a darker colour based on a humid trunk.
MultitarnFlecktarn2016In 2016, the developed a universal camouflage following the lead of many allies in their purchase of the MultiCam camo for their special forces, and its 6 colours are very close to it.
It was developed as the new standard pattern for the Bundeswehr but has yet only entered service with the special forces.
Multi-Terrain PatternDisruptive Pattern Material2010British Armed Forces, it is a combination of the Army's previous camouflage, DPM and MultiCam. It is supposedly more effective than MultiCam itself, due to the integration of more natural and fluid shapes of the DPM pattern.
NWU Type IDigital2008–2019United States Navy, New York State Naval Militia, and U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps. Retired by the U.S. Navy in 2019.
Operational Camouflage Pattern Woodland2015United States, replacing Universal Camouflage Pattern by 2019. An enlarged, slightly modified version of MultiCam. Also known as Scorpion W2.
PlatanenmusterFlecktarn1937Germany: summer and autumn variants.
Rain patternRain1960 c.Warsaw Pact countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Bulgaria

subsequent use: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
Rhodesian BrushstrokeBrushstroke1965–1980Rhodesia/Zimbabwe
Semi pixelated Arid Desert patternsemi-Digital2012Pakistan Army
Soldier 2000Woodland1994South Africa
SplittermusterSplinter1931Germany 1931–1945
Tactical Assault Camouflage Organic, non-pixelated pattern2004U.S. National Counterterrorism Center
Flecktarn1991JGSDF, JMSDF, Japan National Defense Academy cadets, JASDF Air Rescue Wings Pararescuemen
Organic, non-pixelated pattern2017Austrian Armed Forces
Woodland2019Austrian Armed Forces
Tarndruck Beige PXLDigital pattern2011Austrian Armed Forces
Tarndruck SEK PXLDigital pattern2014Austrian Armed Forces
TAZ 83Woodland1983Switzerland
TAZ 90Woodland1990sSwitzerland
TAZ 07Woodland2007Switzerland
Only used for missions abroad, such as in arid countries, it can also be used in missions abroad in summer in countries such as Kosovo or in South Korea.
The pattern is based on the TAZ 90.
.Woodland2022Switzerland
This camouflage will be the standard one for the new personal equipment of the Swiss Army.
The pattern is based on the TAZ 90, and the black colour was replaced by a light brown, and is also designed to provide multispectral stealth properties.
Telo mimeticoWoodland
precursor		1929Italy, for shelter-halves, then uniforms. Oldest mass-produced camouflage pattern.
TigerstripeTigerstripe1969 c.South Vietnam, US special forces in Vietnam. Based on Lizard. Many variants. Also used by Australia, New Zealand in Vietnam.
Turkish M2008 'Nano'semi-Digital2008-2021Turkish Armed Forces and Azerbaijani Armed Forces
5 variants
Turkish M2021semi-Digital2021Turkish Armed Forces and Azerbaijani Armed Forces
4 variants
Type 99 (China)Woodland1999China
Type 07 (China)Digital2007China. Ocean variant shown.
Universal Camouflage PatternDigital2005–2014/19United States Army, some U.S. Navy sailors assigned to army units, the Texas State Guard, Chadian Army, and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. Also used by the Iranian military in limited contexts.
U.S. Woodland Woodland1981Derived from ERDL. Used by the United States Navy SEALs, U.S. Navy SWCC, USMC MARSOC, Luxembourg, Argentine marines, Azerbaijani Armed Forces, Bangladesh Army, the Dutch Marine Corps, Peruvian marines, and the Nigerian Navy. Was used by the Afghan National Army and the Mexican Naval Infantry in the 2000s. Also used by the Moldovan Special Forces, Malaysian navy, Malawian Army, Tunisian Army's Special Forces Group and Turkey until mid-2000s in 3 colorways.
VSR-93 FloraWoodland1993Russia
wz. 68 Moro"Worm pattern"1969–1989Polish People's Army; 6 variant colorways.
wz. 89 Puma"Reptile Pattern"1989–1993Polish Armed Forces, National Army of Afghanistan.
wz. 93 PanteraWoodland1993Polish Armed Forces, Armed Forces of Ukraine, Armed Forces of Armenia.
K17Modified duck hunter pattern2017/2018Vietnam; 5 variant colorways
K20
Woodland2019/2020–presentVietnam; 6 variant colorways
M06 ESTDCUDigital2006Estonian Defence Forces
M/98 WoodlandWoodland1998–PresentNorway
Digital2011-presentSouth Korea
Sage Green camouflage pattern Digital
2025–presentIndonesia
Xingkong (camouflage)Digital2019China