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new DPM for irish DF

private2bcadet · 2010-07-07 01:38:43

is this true? im in the RDF, and i heard from one of the PDF lads that apparently the designer of the DPM pattern is raising his price to produce gear with the pattern on it. from what i was a told he was an army sergeant who's wife made him a pencil case or map case with in a camo pattern (before our DPM obsiously), and…

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#32 19-04-2011 7:29pm

goose2002

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mackbolan wrote: »

Digital camouflage is much more effective than DPM's.
The Irish military should make the change.

The British and American military were wearing camouflage uniforms since the 1970's before the Irish finally changed in the 1990's.

Now the Irish are behind again.

You should probably tell these guys then while you're at it too. By the examples you've given above, these guys are way behind the times!

The whole which camo is better argument gets very old. Each camo has its advantages and disadvantages. Each camo type can work perfectly well under the conditions it was designed and in a lot of surprising cases, terrain it was not designed for. I have seen Brit desert camo work extremely well in Northern Ireland and Scotland for instance and was fairly hard to see until you got up close. Part of what camo does is to fool your eye into seeing a different shape to what you are looking for and expect to see.

The Irish camo is by no mean obsolete and is perfectly good for the DF at the min. Don't be fooled into thinking digital BDU is absolutely amazing and has rendered all DPM obsolete and behind the times. A large part of the thinking behind the idea of one pattern for all conditions was cost in that only one type of uniform is needed.

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