Flora camouflage


Flora is a military camouflage pattern formerly used by the Russian [Armed Forces].
The pattern has some design similarities with the Butan and Tiger [stripe camouflage|Tiger stripe camo].

History

Flora came as a replacement for the "Barvikha" camouflage - the name of the R&D program. The pattern did not have an official name, so popular nicknames like "vertikalka", berezka, VSR-93 and so on appeared.
Flora was adopted into the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 1998.
The camo was last seen with claimed pro-Moscow Crimean auxiliaries during the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and with some Russian troops in the War in Donbass.

Design

Flora is optimised for an environment typical of central Russia and is effective at silhouette dissolution. Because of the characteristic stripes, "Flora" was nicknamed "Arbuznyj" camouflage.
The overall color scheme can vary widely depending on the fabric used by the manufacturer.
"Flora" consists of the green Flora pattern and the Mountain Flora pattern, which has dark yellow, sand or khaki color.

Users

Former

  • : Replaced by EMR.
  • : Formerly used by all branches of Russian Armed Forces. Replaced by EMR by 2011. However, some are still used by military educational institutes, Russian soldiers in parades and in Ukraine.
  • : Adopted EMR to replace Flora.

    Partially-recognized states

  • Non-State Actors

  • Russian Orthodox Army
  • Rusich Group