Tigerstripes were outlandishly, outrageously cool. Coupled with a new pair of jungleboots and you had it goin' on! For effect, you gotta hand it to the gille suit. Not very practical around garrison, but really serves it's intended purpose. Anything else is only a marginal improvement over a nicely faded pair of O.D. jungles.

>>Anything else is only a marginal improvement over a nicely faded pair of O.D. jungles.<< Something different but related. I read an article that stated solid gray blends well with a wide variety of backgrounds, urban and rural. It's more of a neutral than a color. Some WWII vets have said that the Germans were sometimes suprisingly hard to spot in their field grey. Something else that sounds interesting, although I confess I've never tried it, is wearing a solid colored top and solid colored pants of a lighter color than the top. O.D. top and gray pants or gray top and khaki pants etc. The idea being that if everything is the same color all the way down, then the bottom will often appear darker at a distance because it's in the shadow of the top. Wearing a lighter pants can negate some of that. Crazy theory? Maybe. But for what it's worth lots of animals have an underside lighter than the main part of their body.

>>Something different but related. I read an article that stated solid gray blends well with a wide variety of backgrounds, urban and rural. It's more of a neutral than a color. Some WWII vets have said that the Germans were sometimes suprisingly hard to spot in their field grey.<< Grey is supposed to be the hardest color in the visible spectrum for the human eye to pick out. One hopes someone had that in mind when they designed the ACU, otherwise the pattern is even harder to fathom . . .

Gray seems to work well in the muted light of forests and fall, winter, and spring. I guess that I'd say the same for O.D. and even khaki (I've seen pictures of Soviet troops at Kursk in faded khaki, dusty as hell to boot, who blended beautifully at a distance-under optimal conditions for Khaki, I admit). No solid, even neutral gray, work particularly well when new, IMO.

Slightly related. During the ACW ships runing the naval blockade into Confederate ports painted their upper works in a light grey, some almost white. Black was tried initially (they were runing at night) but the palest grey worked best.

I depends if you are looking at mainline troops or spec-ops. we now have acu and marpat to the north they have cadpat all are improvements. Jordan just got new duds with help from western technology and of course Israel as always sports the finest everything and camo is no Exception. I understand RangerMade has done some work with them and they probably lead in this field. there is an interesting write-up at http://www.rangermade.us for the camo enthusiasts.

I rather like this Russian uniform: http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/8769/one4ex.jpg>

problem here is any camo is ultimately suited to a particular area/environment...i hunt, and have half a dozen old camo suits in various patterns...one of the best i can recall was a jacket pants set my WWII 2nd marine division Dad gave me, reversible: quadcolor green/dark era camo to brown/sand quadcolor; wore it for years til i left the jacket on a Wyoming sagebrush foothill one day and couldn't find it....worked real well....i wonder why the services just don't buy whatever is suitable for wherever from the hundreds of available high quality commercial hunter's options....probably would save a lot of money in the long run....heck, Cabela's has ghillie suits (east agreement they win hands down) up the proverbial wazoo....

*Looks at Yimmy's Pic* Yes I like those uniforms too :P

>>*Looks at Yimmy's Pic* Yes I like those uniforms too :P << Kind of a dazzle pattern . . .