| From: | Arclight arclight@*********.de |
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| Subject: | Questions of great importance [LONG!] (Steve, Jon, RA:S people especially) |
| Date: | Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:22:12 +0200 |
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> less :) ). I've got a UCAS army strike team going into the Renraku
> Arcology. Parts of the arc are well lit, parts are black as night. You
> know how it goes. They're all wearing armoured bodysuits, plus armoured
> REVERSIBLE vests. What would be good camouflage patterns for them to be
> using? I would assume the vest would have one side for darkness and one
> for light - but what about the bodysuit? That's all one pattern.
Well, here's an excerpt from a study about urban camo patterns. I
might send the whole file to those who ask me, of course.
<<<< Begin excerpt >>>>
Experimental urban camouflage BDU's were informally evaluated
locally and more formally evaluated during a baseline urban
camouflage effectiveness study performed in May 1994 at the
MOUT training site at Ft. Benning.
The baseline urban camouflage effectiveness study included the
following seven camouflage BDU's: two 2-color experimental
disruptive urban camouflage uniforms, a 3-color experimental
disruptive urban camouflage uniform, a monotone grey urban
camouflage uniform, an experimental monotone black NomexTM
flight suit, a standard three-color desert camouflage uniform,
and a standard woodland camouflage uniform.
The uniforms were evaluated to determine their camouflage
effectiveness at five locations within the MOUT Training Center.
The locations included three day sites, one inside site and one
night site. All test subjects and observers were previously
exposed to MOUT training and were drawn from Alpha Company, 3rd
Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Ft. Benning. All observers had
at least a corrected visual acuity of 20/30 and normal color
vision. The observers were asked to evaluate the camouflage
effectiveness of each uniform across all five sites based on
forced comparisons. At each test site the observers were asked
to select the one camouflage uniform that blended best with the
surrounding urban background. Each observer made 21 best blend
comparisons at each test site for a total of 252 decisions by 12
observers at each location. All observation data were recorded,
collected and statistically analyzed.
The results of the baseline urban camouflage effectiveness study
were as follows: the lighter colored patterned uniforms blended
best across the stucco and cinder block buildings which comprised
the three day sites. These were the two 2-color light grey and
medium grey urban patterned uniforms, and the 3-color desert
camouflage uniform. The darker uniforms - the black flight suit,
the woodland camouflage uniform and the monotone grey urban
camouflage uniform- blended the poorest across the three day
sites. As would be expected, the darker uniforms, and the 3-color
urban camouflage uniform blended the best when viewed by observers
from outside looking inside at a test subject within a building.
Camouflage effectiveness tests performed at night at one site where
observers were looking through a third generation passive night
vision device revealed that the black flight suit performed well
because of its high reflectance in the NIR against a painted urban
background. The two color medium grey urban camouflage uniform, and
the monotone grey uniform also performed well in this setting. The
woodland uniform and 3 color urban camouflage uniform did not
perform well at the urban night site.
<<<< End of excerpt >>>>
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