From: | Richard Tomasso rtomasso@*******.com |
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Subject: | Questions of great importance |
Date: | Thu, 2 Sep 1999 10:56:39 -0400 (EDT) |
> Tigerstripe: Horizontal stripes of a brown, green and black, VERY mixed
> opinoin as to it's effectiveness. It seems to be a "pretty pattern" more
> than anything else, but I've never sean SEA first hand.
I've found it to be surprisingly effective in the New England woods. (Weird,
considering it was designed for jungle use - must be the distance it was
designed for) I usually wear it when I play paintball, and I've had people
less than 30' away look right at me and not see me. Of course, I'm very good
at remaining absolutely still (another good camoflage in itself if you
aren't standing out against the background).
> Black: Great for intimidation, sucks at concealment day or night. A
> moving, solid BLACK object stands out real fast, and you just siloutte your
> life away.
I've heard it's also used to make members of a team stand out less.
There's usually something about colored camo that lets you pick out someone,
the solid black makes everyone look the same.
> There are also some universal camoflauge patterns that are little more
> than some brown and balck streaks (to break up the form) on a
> light-coloured, but not bright, backgroudn that reflect envirometnal
> colours well, but I don't know about thier effectiveness is urban environs.
I hear the South Africans came up with some kick-ass patterns as well. I
think designed for mixed terrain (hills + light woods). Some of them are
illegal for civilians to own (not that that means anything necessarily).