Here's on of their planes painted with the camo:
Posted on 02/02/2016 1:41:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
A new type of camouflage developed for the Bundeswehr (German army) has been designed to fool even enemies using night vision equipment.
The Bundeswehr Scientific Institute (Wiweb) has been working on the new design for several years, and now believes it finally has a replacement for the traditional Flecktarn pattern, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reported on Tuesday.
With a larger percentage of the surface devoted to sand colours, the new pattern -- which is designed to be used in all kinds of different environments -- is more useful in desert areas like Afghanistan, where more than 800 German troops are deployed. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.de ...
if it really works, I want some!
Of course you do.
You just want to sneak up on your spouse and/or brother-in-law and scare the holy pie outta'em!
Someone will laugh at this....wait for it.... wait for it....
I would never! LOL
NVS maybe. FLIR, not so much.
“Military secrets are the most fleeting of all.” - Spock
From the pictures, without seeing it very close up, or seeing it next to multicam, it looks kind of like multicam to me.
My brother in law works for FLIR’s competitor.
Those are some bad ass thermal sites.
Id love one but $6,000 is too rich for my blood.
check it out below.... it’s fantastic
Careful, Pinocchio, your nose is growing. :o)
Life is too short not to have some fun! ;)
To be issued only to the caliphate of Al Arabia Germanica after the fall.
sad isn’t it?
A new uniform for the Afrika Corps?
They'll trick them into thinking they're Polish soldiers.
“NVS maybe. FLIR, not so much.”
FLIR is not new, they worked to minimize it also.
“”The new clothing also has one extra-special advantage: it provides better camouflage in the infra-red wavelengths of light used by most night-vision and light-amplification devices.””
All of the camouflage clothing which hides from thermal optics is really hot to wear.
No fun at all outside of the dead of winter.
Just go to a sauna.
Here's on of their planes painted with the camo:
Man, is that stuff effective or what?
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