ACU Camo Test - Does it FIT IN anywhere?!

[@HunterLord458]

The answer really is to dye the camo with a dark green or brown. Then its actually usable

[@armyand_Outdoors]

as a even remotely 'universal' pattern, yeh its a ok option. I guess in that case though the 'camo' pattern gets a bit washed out so to speak and the angle is more a well made, inexpensive field uniform

[@ChubbsterBrown]

If I didn’t know that I had to find a kiwi hiding in those rocks I 100% would have missed all but one of them.

[@armyand_Outdoors]

were super endangered so we keep large caches of camies to change environment every 50 metres 😉 😂

[@tovarisch3490]

I couldn’t get a single one, shame that that cam is not like that anywhere else (except that one couch)

[@ChubbsterBrown]

Not granny’s infamous sofa.

[@armyand_Outdoors]

100% cherry picked but I guess that was the point-where on earth can this stuff work?? haha.

[@Marvin-b7o5n]

Why would any choose ucp over m81 woodland camo ????

[@armyand_Outdoors]

cheap-woodland is fantastic but like all surp its stocks aren't gonna last forever. Despite the hideous camo, UCP is well made & cheap to boot. Dump it in some rit dye and you got yourself a cheap alternative to Woodland

[@turtleman1466]

The most hellish where's waldo

[@armyand_Outdoors]

Ill take that as a compliment (waldo books were the best!) 🤣🤣

[@turtleman1466]

@@armyand_Outdoors That is what I intended, it was very hard if not impossible to find you

[@kansaspatriot2051]

Works great on a gravel road! Other than that it's pretty useless unless you dye it with green or brown.

[@ArizonaMinuteMan]

You can dye it ranger green or FDE

[@brassvulcher8207]

or in actual combat using NIR

[@armyand_Outdoors]

@joshjameskiwibushman I'd love to see this camo in some of the high country you hunt in mate ;)

[@jon1801]

Apart from rocky terrain the pattern is useless.

[@ArizonaMinuteMan]

You can dye UCP, watch videos of it

[@brassvulcher8207]

maybe for airsoft, for actual combat use at night it’s the best there is

[@maccliff2115]

Grey rocky terrain. Not the Red Canyon desert colored rocks.

[@brassvulcher8207]

Desert test kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoa3eqmNnMpjhK8feature=shared

[@brassvulcher8207]

Snow test kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYbXdWirh9GnmaMfeature=shared

[@armyand_Outdoors]

a good vid of a more 'common' stomping ground use for this camo. Definitely makes sense for the US military to hang onto a lot of their expensive wet weather gear!

[@brassvulcher8207]

@@armyand_Outdoors It’s the best night vision camo out and 95% of military operations are at night, so yeah hanging on to some is a great idea

[@roguerader]

UCP is a great camo pattern, of course ignorant people because they look at each other at 20 yards and are able to spot each other think the camo failed. Even for those that say UCP is useless unless is dyed green, I always challenge them to find me at 400 meters in the jungle (distance for which it was designed to blend) and every single time they fail, even in the snow they fail to spot me while wearing UCP. So, the few that understand camo and how it works, they appreciate it, those that are only limited to distances no longer than 50 yards in woodland and have not much of an idea about camo, they hate it. And it is understandable, nobody can blame you for being ignorant.

[@seanflanaganasarous3908]

400 metres away in "the jungle" you could get away with wearing a clown suit due to vegetation. The reality is that Brigadier General James Moran, then-head of PEO Soldier, set up his own internal design committee of idiots with no training to develop UCP and added it to the evaluation along with the others Natick was testing. Natick tested it and the results showed that it's the worst pattern overall of all the ones tested, but had zero licencing fees, was developed "internally" and Moran had the deciding vote so it was adopted. It's rubbish. You can enjoy it but don't try for a minute to suggest people don't "understand it" or use it properly. It didn't even work in the two theaters is was theoretically supposed to excel in...

[@roguerader]

@@seanflanaganasarous3908 bro, I try and I do whatever I want, I have the education, the means, the intellect and the resources to do it. Now go and carry on repeating what other undeducated people say...

[@armyand_Outdoors]

as someone who has hunted other humans wearing camo for nearly 2 decades in bush, UCP is truely awful anywhere bar some niche areas such as mountainous terrain. It stands out even just a helmet/boonies worth in the woods. I would dye it for any jungle use. Just my 2 cents

[@seanflanaganasarous3908]

@@roguerader cool story champ, needs more dragons though. Best of luck.

[@roguerader]

@@armyand_Outdoors you hunted humans for 2 decades in the bush huh? answer this? how come the US Navy Seal really truly hunted humans in Vietnam wearing jeans and in some cases t-shirts?

[@herringbone5035]

It is amazingly effective in a gravel pile, or a gravel quarry. Otherwise, it freaking glows in the dark. Ive always wondering exactly how many casualties this pattern caused by failing its mission. How many grants were killed or wounded because of it. The POS officers who adopted this should feel the burden of that for the rest of their lives.

[@armyand_Outdoors]

oh yeh, absolutely no doubt it was pretty terrible but its one of those things you could never quantify. The camo enjoyer in me hates to say it, but considering where the US has seen combat recently, they've done real good to select OCP. If only every other country with different operational needs hadn't followed suit...

[@brassvulcher8207]

@@herringbone5035 It’s literally designed for NIR and has the highest rating there, a lot of the fighting was in urban in Iraq, there it’s ideal, in afgan it matched the rocky areas ok but stuck out in the green areas, nothing is perfect but over all it’s way more effective then given credit especially at range past 300m

[@herringbone5035]

@@brassvulcher8207 The colors adopted of ACU wasn't even the color and shades they performed tests.

[@brassvulcher8207]

@@herringbone5035 first off it’s UCP, ACU is the uniform cut and still in service, the original pattern was known as Urban Track, the colors are optimized for NIR and Urban 95% of military operations happen at night, 500,501,502 are the colors and were in the testing, you’re spreading wrong info