Military Camouflage Tier List v.2

For this tier list, we introduced some winter camouflage patterns, some classics, and some very new patterns
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[@MichaelRose87]

Meanwhile in the IDF: Woodland camo - plain olive Desert camo - plain olive Urban camo - plain olive

[@Brecconable]

😅

[@Cheesusrice69222]

Olive trees bruh

[@umarmars47]

Gharqad trees

[@tomfuller4205]

The IDF once used French lizard and some units today wear US M81 BDU.

[@HoseTheBeast]

That tiger stripe camo will for ever be the single coolest camo pattern ever made. It just screams badass where ever you see it.

[@TacShooter]

It would probably be more effective if they swapped out the black with dark brown.

[@ChiefMason]

There are two different jungle tiger stripe varieties. One is more modern and the color palette is slightly different. But I’d agree I love tiger stripe and it blends in very well in dense vegetation like you’d see in Vietnam.

[@derdampfhammer6652]

@@TacShooter exactly its too dark. It was designed for environments with super thick overhead canopy.

[@TacShooter]

@@derdampfhammer6652 Tiger to Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now: "ROWR! GTFO of here, POSER!"

[@BlackCloud0351]

@@TacShooterAll-Terrain Tiger Stripe 👍🏻

[@internal_voice]

I believe old australian camouflage is definitely represents not bunny heads, but something quite different

[@Kurio71]

The old 'jelly beans' pattern was similar to what the Marines wore in WW2.

[@bornepatrol]

Di

[@RangerDLK]

Good old dick bunny jelly bean camouflage

[@sartorialdriver6528]

In the incredulous words of Danger 5 “they’re drawings of dicks!”

[@TacShooter]

lolz

[@herrakaarme]

The Kryptek camo is really useful if the lizardmen from outer space invade Earth and you need to infiltrate their ranks for special operations.

[@Kuutti_original]

Or for examble visit Zuckerberg and dont want him to realize you are not lizard aswell.

[@JoCreep]

*cries in kryptek camo *

[@robh316]

British DPM is spot on for our foliage

[@leighalderton1851]

Yep, was designed for NW Europe, and worked well.

[@davidhughes4089]

Much better than the German Flecktarn which was excessively dark

[@Liam1991]

As someone who was in the ACF and now the army reserves, I think DPM is better for our environment. From some of the exercises I've been on so far, MTP looks too brown. And this is from being out in the field during winter, which I fought MTP would be better suited for.

[@Womb2DaTomb]

@@Liam1991 MTP is not great for the UK at all, I have no idea why they adopted it, they should've just used it for Afghan and got rid

[@paulgdunsford7469]

And DPCU was great in our bush too lots of light brown and gum trees green etc

[@StratBurst92]

The tiger stripes were patterned after the French M1953 lizard pattern. It was never issued by the US Military. It was procured from tailor shops and small businesses in places like Saigon. during the war in Vietnam.

[@thomson3838]

The Finnish winter camo looks dope, and seems to be very effective (especially) in snowy forrests

[@sagqe]

As a former/current reservist user I can assure you that a man wearing that will absolutely vanish in the Finnish winter forest. Provided he remembers to use camo paint on his face.

[@azvazch]

@@sagqe or a balaclava with a lil extra spice.

[@sagqe]

@@azvazch That freezes on your face after a short while.

[@thetechlibrarian]

Yeah that stuff us crazy

[@wind871]

Tiger stripe is actually effective in certain areas. for example in parts of Washington during fall and winter it does great. but tiger stripe is suited for only certain type of woodland areas

[@davidj6755]

Kryptek Highlander is the best pattern I’ve found for bow hunting in central California grasslands. It works great at any distance, especially in open areas. I hunt with a recurve, so I need to get close. I agree though about it not winning on style points. The first time I saw it I thought to myself “why the hell is that guy wearing snake pants?”

[@shanebluett5560]

DPCU (Australian) works great, blends into most environments in Australia. I have usd it in the jungle, desert, open grass areas and the bush. and all our field gear was DPCU

[@sagnal]

"Bunny ears and love hearts" (DPCU) is quite effective in Australian scrub environments. It was developed in the early 80s by the CSIRO from a computer imagery project of Australian terrrain from desert through to temperate forest. The picture you showed was in a FOB environment. You need to see it in the Bad Bush to make a real assessment.

[@BabaNovac792]

....and this is why ,this kind of camo rating video,is just subjective and not to be taken as something with value,other then subjective entertainment

[@Kurio71]

@@BabaNovac792 Just fashion choice

[@stoss567]

Multi-cam tropic works well in swamps (Florida, Louisiana, other Gulf states)

[@marioformicadae6637]

I'm experimenting with multicam bottoms and multicam tropic top here in Kenya, since we're going through a drought. I also have desert and woodland MARPAT, and might get some multicam arid. But for rainy season you can never go wrong with MARPAT.

[@philipveall4893]

The U.S desert night camo was made because it was supposed to work well against night vision scopes of the time. It didn't do well because night vision became more advanced quickly. Also the Australian camo is a little like beo gam.

[@bpgsontz1072]

The old Auscam worked extremely well, in Australia.

[@robertowen-jones443]

An enormous amount of Australia is tropical… everywhere in the north for a start. And the colour of Australian plants is unique as you will understand if you spend any time in a eucalyptus grove

[@Nate_F2W]

It’s hard to tell how you are judging these patterns? By looks? Effectiveness? Versatility? Each camo has its own strengths and weaknesses in different environments.

[@shadowwolf9503]

Honestly, he seems clueless about camo.

[@RagTag72]

Hes definitely on some Instagram operator tacticool BS.

[@shadowwolf9503]

@@RagTag72 Roger that !

[@beyondbackwater4933]

DPCU or "Auscam" can look a bit funny up close, it was very effective for Australia though and you'll find other videos showing it's effectiveness elsewhere too. Also the whole top of Australia is tropical lol.

[@jakob7693]

can vouch it is actually very good for Australian environment. It might look a bit silly up close but it works really well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/emTaopdmj7eJrrs that's a link to a camo test for dpcu and i was surprised it actually works in American terrain

[@andrewcombe8907]

The Australian DPCU worked incredibly well in the Australian environment which covers alpine, tropical, temperate and desert. The rabbit ear blotches simulated dappled light in forests and bush land. Speaking from experience wearers in the Australian bush just disappeared.

[@PencilProper]

The old AUSCAM was actually very effective in the bush, especially once a digger had got some dirt and dust onto it. The new AMCU is essentially the same colours but in a more recognisable pattern to friendly forces. I do believe the AMCU to be more effective overall, however they are all designed to hide the silhouette of a man from distances of greater than 300meters.

[@dylanwight5764]

AMCU fails in coastal ecologies. DPCU succeeds because it fucks with how we perceive shadows while also emulating the patterns of broad leaved coastal flora. Post up in dune grasses or lantana scrub or mangrove flats and you're practically invisible. The lighter background is the secret sauce since it works equally well against sand or dry grass. The tighter pattern of AMCU is definitely a step above what DPCU offers in denser bushland, I'll give it that for sure! What's most interesting to me is that we ultimately decided to keep the palette even if the pattern has changed. That at least proves we understand our own backyard and we're not quite chasing the Multicam trend.

[@petitpanierdosier3206]

Even if the cryptek camo seems goofy up close the fact that it's the only one using depth illusion is even more hilarious since it's super effective from afar

[@dutch1665]

Have you already see the new dutch NPF camo? It works good here and by next year the entire armed forces will have switched paterns, there are also different versions: NFP multitone, NFP green, NFP desert and NFP marine

[@jani5418]

You should make a tier list of techwear: a fashion trend that takes cues from tacticool trends, usually with gringey outcome.

[@Kriegter]

oh got not the uncle camo pants

[@doomsdaytaco3819]

Australia's old camo worked pretty well at blending in with the bush, but the newer uniforms look beyond incredible, especially if it's a worn uniform with darkened colours

[@hiyorisarugaki1830]

British DPM is definitely one of the best ever.

[@luk3347]

My father was in the Airforce during the Late 90s and early 2000s. He was security forces deployed overseas and he used the Night Vision Camo many times, he said it did a great job of avoiding detection while guarding base.

[@grimmseti]

People who used tigerstripe in Vietnam have sworn by it's effectiveness from what I've seen. It was a niche patter. It was made for the jungles of Vietnam and worked really well out in the jungles of Vietnam. Watching test videos on the internet, it does better out in woodland environments than I thought it would with all that black. But yeah switching to M81 once the Vietnam War ended makes sense.

[@mirroredvoid8394]

Survivor bias

[@FrostyOZ1]

The Australian DPCU, or AUSCAM as we sometimes call it, is most commonly referred to here as “Jellybean”! I think we definitely made the right choice updating to AMCU.

[@Kurio71]

The cut is much better too

[@jakespoors]

nah bro i call it auscam or di

[@arturbalakhnin9770]

You know what always works, olive green and then just one day of using it in a tactical environment because this makes it hard to distinguish a person from a small hill or dirt and even in foliage it works perfectly.

[@JP-lz6gc]

To me, that us army snow over garment looks like a fogged up plastic poncho 😅. Would like to see more pictures of it in action.

[@CombatArmsChannel]

😅

[@Marty-Airborne]

I'm impressed you know we change our french camo in few years !! good job !!

[@dantheman8112]

You should watch Brent's video on highlander kryptek camo effectiveness. I was surprised by the results.

[@mosulmedic7048]

You earned total boot status when you placed DNC as A tier and tiger stripe as D

[@xx-ui2gm]

Have you ever heard of or seen NFP (Netherlands Fractal Pattern)?

[@DutchTunisian]

Maybe if you do another camouflage rating you could include the dutch nfp, the old belgian camo and ukrainian camo and some more from smaller countries

[@Schokelmei]

the whole camo science is so fascinating. the need to change your camo from forest a to forest b to forest c makes a more universal form of camo necessary and even there you'll end up with the same "it''s no longer that good" problem. I wonder if there will be a universal woodland, universal desert, etc camo that works day and night one day.

[@kapelski104]

15:00 You know it works well when he didn't even realize there was a second guy standing next to the other one.

[@bill8784]

I agree with the comments re British DPM being well suited to our environment. As a schoolboy in the 1970s we were still wearing the same uniform our parents’ generation wore during WW2 and years before that. The British Army subsequently appeared to adopt the American style olive drab before DPM was introduced. Since then we appear to have had several changes. I guess cost was a major limiting factor in the past. I am still wearing tailored suits which since I first wore them I have lost count of the changes in uniform.

[@mattysee24]

Tigerstripe works great at night, and in jungle operations

[@ottEST]

ESTDIGI or Estonian digital camo is one of the best for forests and green foilage. It works almost the whole year. With snow add snow camo pants (if there is no snow on trees) and ESTDIGI top or full snow camo if it's full-on winter.

[@BlackCloud0351]

All-Terrain Tiger Stripe fixes the issue of being “too dark” because of the black stripes. If you continue this series, check out the AT Tiger, Desert Tiger Stripe, Italian Vegetato, Greek Lizard Pattern (old as well as the new variant recently released in a similar color palette as Multicam if possible), and if you can ignore the end-users, you can’t leave out reversible Spring/Fall SS OakLeaf along with the SS Pea Dot.

[@Sparrow51403]

Kryptek works great at night under NIR, but that’s it.

[@Jeremia-ek3jd]

Germany will get a new color it’s Multitarn. It is Flecktarn but it is a universal color pattern for more than just forest

[@zacharydrahm825]

Majority of Australians live in tropical areas along the coast. In fact the ozzy multicam slightly changes colour once dirt and dust gets on the uniforms and can basically blend into any environment. Very unique colour pattern.

[@haikopaiko]

This is pretty cool, very interesting topic 👌

[@greggtrubee9565]

I would say that you really do not know the true effectiveness of each Camo.A lot of SF operators Wear the Camo you despise. You should watch Brent and his comparison in the field for effectiveness.

[@therifflair724]

The Aussie PeaCam works great in the SE US. 300,000+ square miles of red dirt.

[@atomik1258]

I've definitely walked into a position without noticing a sections worth of packs wrapped in DPCU hoochies but the seen the same thing with out the hoochies and the multicam packs stood out big time. Especially after DPCU fades it can be fairly effective

[@_benkruger]

The Australian DPCU worked really really well in country once the uniform had faded. Lmao brand new it looked ridiculous

[@cheeseman417]

Hi, Thank you for your content and for your service. Have you seen the new British red brick camo?, I only saw one photo of it, Im not sure if it was only a prototype , but it had actual brick shapes on it to blend in with buildings, and was wondering what your take was on it because it's not available to purchase that Ive found.

[@yinyannchapadou3721]

Just found your channel and Really enjoying it! I was curious if you could make another camouflage tier video on pencott especially greenzone . Thanks and have a good day

[@sgtspurdo3657]

M05 is the best summer and winter camo🤘🏻

[@Zoomerdaddy]

1:27 that camo will make you shine like a diamond with night vision, even with the Soviet era nods. I hear a story where a few Marines tried it out at night and practically said fuck this shit.

[@cron1165]

Canada was the first country to design and field digital camo, and the new pattern is almost just like digital multicam, while most countries have been switching to multicam I like that Canada kept it digital for the history alone. We'll have to see how it does there's really not enough photos of it in action even now

[@MidnightMoon2267]

Frog skin camo is also known as duck hunter camo, was used till the 60s and it is still used by some hunters today.

[@jegsdinogod5091]

Tiger stripe is friggin great for majority of woodlands. Jungles, brushy swamps, southeast pine and vine woods, etc. it follows the best rule of camo...breaking up the human silhouette. It's popular in deer hunting

[@Dero_milsurp]

LOL no it is not. It's TOO dark for woodlands.

[@ShadowESH]

I think that the new french multi-cam is better then all other multi-cam. Because it has some other elements to it.

[@leemuz73]

Great vid, agree with your choices cheers Lee

[@3vil3lvis]

When nostalgia enters the conversation you get the frog skin camo being ranked worlds apart from the australian bunny pattern that is essentially the same thing.

[@BelowZeroEntertainment]

you do have some nice camo there, a very intersting one is the sweedish woodland (M90 camo) i do think they have a winter edition of it too. nice video :D

[@Kraakesolv]

He has touched on that before I think. Agreed though.

[@BelowZeroEntertainment]

@@Kraakesolv Oh okay :D

[@ALDZK20]

You should definitely react to the Swiss Elite Special Forces Called the "DRA10" it's been uploaded just about a month ago to the SRF DOK channel, would love to see your thoughts!

[@knightowl5868]

Actually MARPAT was based off of CADPAT because Canada had it copyrighted. So if you have MARPAT as an A tier in the other video you should have CADPAT higher since it's what it's based off of and is og.

[@samb2052]

Except that the Cadpat colours are crap.

[@brianc9374]

I believe (could be wrong though): Frogskin was actually a civilian duck hunting patterned adopted by the USMC for the pacific

[@mightyfinland8118]

The M05 Winter is indeed dope af, and works really well! 💪 that picture is actually originally from Varusteleka, hence the great photo. Always ready to ski to fuck!

[@bobthebuilder2922]

I bought a poncho colored in night desert camo from helikon tex. Fits pretty well for dark pine forests with or with out snow. Good for hunting

[@AZ762SHOOTER]

That Aussie pattern does work in it's environment. Seen it first hand

[@parkerpowell4231]

the new austrian camo is the best camo i’ve ever seen, no surprise tho they’ve always had drip even with od green

[@ashleyrosser9979]

If you think some of these Camos are wild check out the Berlin Brigade scheme from the eighties.

[@BerishStarr]

14:50 its so good most people I've talked to miss the second dude standing to the left of the one kneeling 😄

[@kevinmoulding7702]

British DPM works realy well for the forests of Central Europe. It came about from the evolution of the Dennis's smock which early copies where hand painted in a brushstroke fashion.useful for the forests of Western Germany

[@molonlabe5090]

Tell me your a Marine with telling me you’re a marine “Frogskin is an S tier camouflage”

[@MrKvsh]

Love your videos! Entertaining and educational. Please make a tier list with the polish wz.93 pantera camo.

[@AZ762SHOOTER]

That night desert pattern didn't really work for what it was designed for. That pattern was supposed to interfere with night vision.

[@pasta4826]

I love the look of the tiger camo but as you said its just not too useful in many places

[@bembs0256]

Australia’s old camo actually works pretty well in dry bushes or arid area. Btw, maybe you wanna take a look on Dutch NFP camo, it looks pretty sick! I also hope that you will include Russian EMR and Latvian LatPat in the next tier list!

[@sweatybotfn9982]

Type 21 starry night left the chat

[@aria8928]

The older temperate and arid cadpat looked to blend in a lot better than the new multi. Wierdge move to make a compromise camo, would have thought people knew that wasn't best by now.

[@jairustheadventurer3935]

Did tiger stripe dirty. It's at A tier at least. Probably low S tier

[@dylanwight5764]

So on the topic of AUSCAM, obviously it's designed for the native ecologies Australian soldiers are expected to fight in homeside but it is _particularly_ effective in two of the most frequently encountered coastal and semi-arid ecologies found across the continent -- lantana scrubland and mangrove flats. As the uniform is worn in it begins to fade to better effect in our general bushland as well. So as a domestic pattern it's extremely effective. I mean "he's been standing five yards away from me for the last hour" level of effectiveness. The secret to its success is that it's a four-colour broad leaf pattern set over a lighter background which plays with how we perceive shadows.

[@kevinmoulding7702]

Auscam is a good camoflage when you see the Australian army on their soil.itcworks superbly in the outback

[@kustikinnunen]

Great video! Do more of these camouflage tier lists👍🏼

[@bornepatrol]

The think I noticed over my years with ADF Camo patterns is while the colour was still the same essentially and the patterns aside from AMCU (same colours but Multicam) and AMC (slightly off Multicam) the different ratio of cotton to poly made a huge difference. If you look at the land 125 pattern and colours vs the previous generation and the previous ones again they had different material blends which seemed to respond different to what is almost the same colours. It’s weird but when you’ve been though several sets of ADF Camo (3 sets of DPCU) you see differences when mixing. Something as simple as my pre land 125 Para Smock didn’t match anything else except tanker Camo as it was pure cotton. Just my opinion. But it’s been a minute since I’ve worn ADF Camo.

[@atomik1258]

it took me way longer than it should have to notice that there was more than one dude in that snow camo pic.

[@lawrencehunter2269]

The easy way to judge camo effectiveness is squint your eyes when looking at the pattern. Real time ops is peripheral vision.

[@Brecconable]

The Canadians call theirs relish, the Irish call their DPM Paddyflage. Could you do Nutria, Rhodesian Brushstroke and SA-2000?

[@whiskeysierra07]

Aussie here, amcu is very definitely an S tier pattern, especially when it's faded from use

[@RockerFinland]

The last one is so horrible (Kryptek)😃. That pattern would work better on grandma's sofa...or just curtains😁. The Frog Skin is badass and I'm getting some goose bumps from it (even though I'm not American). So many legendary heroes have used it, the pattern was ahead of its time (because it still looks good). It's a true masterpiece.

[@Kriegter]

I absolutely love the M81 woodland and 3 colour desert

[@RealBenAnderson]

I don't think Kryptek is effective but I don't think it's meant to be. It's actually meant to stand out and just look cool. I don't think anyone trying to stay hidden would wear it. People wear it to be noticed.

[@BigJDinSC]

God doesn't need to wear camo, but when He does, He chooses M81 woodland.

[@combatwombat9266]

Man's teeth are brighter than my future.

[@reinoldi1097]

12:00 the trees yes, but when you look at the ground the new one looks better.

[@darwinbeato3973]

Awesome 👏

[@0bserver416]

Where would you place Mutlicam Arid and Tropic variants?

[@peterv3878]

have always loved DPM

[@thatguyoverthere2288]

Kryptek works really good for hunting. No complaints

[@kc6671]

The tigerstrpe always worked good for me bow hunting

[@Liam1991]

You should look at New Zealand's camo. Looks like UCP lol. Apparently they are in the middle of adopting their own copy of MTP.

[@stuarthunter2923]

Now hears something AMCU uses the same patterns as DPCU. The jellybeans and bunnies. You need to have a closer look. I'm interested to hear what you have to say about the other Australian camouflage patterns. DPDU, AMP, ect.

[@Kraakesolv]

Norwegians updating their camo these days, would be awesome if you did those in the future. If you do I'll send you a NAF cap 😘

[@DefiUA]

opinion on mm 14 and berezka the summer version one?