Desert night camouflage pattern

The Desert Night Camouflage pattern is a two-color grid camouflage pattern used by the United States military during the Gulf War. It was designed to aid soldiers in concealment from older generation enemy night vision devices (NVDs). A night vision device (NVD is an Optical instrument that allows images to be produced in levels of light approaching total darkness The pattern is now considered obsolete due to the increase in capability of foreign NVDs.

During the first Gulf War, clothing sets in this pattern were issued to US troops as an over jacket (with a removable insulating liner) and over pants, both being designed to be worn over the issued six-color Desert Battle Dress Uniform (DBDU) during nighttime operations. Desert Battle Dress Uniform (abbreviated DBDU, often called Chocolate-Chip Camouflage, Cookie Dough Camouflage, or the Six-Color Desert Pattern

No night-specific pattern has been created to replace this gear for nighttime use in a desert environment, as advancements in infrared reflectance technology in first the Desert Camouflage Uniform, and finally the MCCUU and ACU have eliminated the need for a separate nighttime overgarment. Battle Dress Uniform ( BDU) is the name of the Military uniform that the armed forces of the United States have used as their standard uniform for Combat The Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform or MCCUU is the current Battledress Uniform of the United States Marine Corps. The Army Combat Uniform (ACU is the current Combat uniform worn by the United States Army.

Criticism

During the Gulf War, one scout/sniper section of a Marine Corps battalion conducted a night test comparing the visibility of the desert night camouflage clothing with six-color desert uniforms and winter overwhites. The night camouflage clothing proved to be more visible than both the day desert uniforms and winter overwhites when viewed though an AN/PVS-5 NVD. [1]

See also

• Desert Battle Dress Uniform
• Desert Camouflage Uniform
• Military camouflage
• List of camouflage patterns

External links

• http://www.battlefront.com/resources/poc/america_north/america_north_us.html

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