Swiss Alpenflage - Origins of Worlds Fruitiest Camouflage

[@matthaft2048]

I have a suit of this because oddly enough its super effective for bow hunting season where I live. Two years ago I was out with just a bit of natural concealment to complement when I had a father and son walk up and start setting up maybe 10 yards away. When I tried to politely whisper the spot was taken they kept looking up and around for a guy in a tree stand 😅

[@jon1801]

A friend in Alaska uses it on tundra for hunting, in pics he has sent me it is really effective.

[@segrientboar5954]

Mate it would surprise you in its effectiveness. It surprised me. We did an Army exercise on the Tasmanian coast. Cool, temperate, usually wet and green. Sick of being told the enemy are 'Wearing captured Auscams and carrying captured Steyrs' (i.e. looking identical to us and our mates) I gave the enemy a set of Alpenflage, and so did a mate. The exercise task was search for and ideally capture two downed pilots, while being weary of enemy recovery teams in strength who were also trying to retrieve their pilots. The two 'pilots' wore the Alpenflage. Looking at all that bright red we thought 'this is going to be easy' and almost felt like cheats. After a bit of a map recce I took a guess where they'd go. Quickly enough I picked up their tracks (I was an Infantry Section Commander). Looking ahead I guessed at their signalling and escape plan and followed them up, using their tracks for confirmation. Sure enough as expected we contacted them near a scrubby hilltop. They withdrew quickly out of sight... One had laid flat under a small bush and my blokes assaulted straight past him! We know because of shots fired from behind, from an area we had just swept over. How embarrassing. The other broke cover and sprinted upright through low knee high bushes with a higher bush background. Sure he would have been shot if it was live rounds, but it was strange watching him run in those cams. Some optical illusion wizardry craziness going on there. A great exercise and I learned a lot.

[@armyand_Outdoors]

Something people definitely behind a keyboard forget or don't know is the nuances to actually being out in combat scenarios. Even in training, having that pressure and moving around yourself greatly impares your awareness/peripheral vision so having a camo that breaks shape really is key! Love hearing your experience especially with how this pattern takes in Australia - I wouldnt have placed money on Tazzy though!!!

[@ZIC_lone_bee]

everybody speaks about this camo but nobody mention that this camo first purpose was made specificaly for decieving night visions. because the sIss amri doctrine of that time was to combat only at night to compensate numerical inferiority. this camo is really really good at night the red is there for the adaptation to the luminosity. ao to never be too dark or too bright in shadow.

[@joeljoel5061]

It's excellent in temperature mountain environments any time of day or night. Take it out of the mountains above the timberline and it's falls pretty hard on it's face. But for defending a woodland mountain environment there's maybe nothing better.

[@Pouk3D]

We only used it in airsoft, but it's shockingly effective in an European forest.

[@kansaspatriot2051]

I've used the Taz76 pattern for Fall hunting in Northeast Kansas for 20 years and it works great! The material and wearibility of the Swiss Uniforms also allows for years of good use.

[@armyand_Outdoors]

great to hear! Large parts of the USA Im sure can utilize this a lot more than here in NZ - not so many oak tree forests or the likes here!

[@HunterLord458]

The perfect non-aligned camo for an Arma 3 op where you just want some easy to see AI for both sides to blast at

[@armyand_Outdoors]

We filmed a bit of a camo test in this forests backdrop so will have a vid coming out soon. Was wanting to do one with more varried terrain other than its strong point, but work/time permitting - let us know any requests you might have!

[@elliottbaker201]

Good in red leaf areas in the fall

[@marcmonnerat4850]

The funny thing is when we were issued the four-fruits pyjamas back in 1988 (pre-Internet), all sorts of rumours were circulating, some of them turned out to be true (or partially true), like its German origin, being worn by the SS, the printing machine smuggled from Czechoslovakia, the red colour as IR decoy, the anti-IR coating (yes the IR was a big thing despite the fact we weren't using IR light any more). Many uniforms at that time were quite worn out and not as shiny as yours ;-)

[@armyand_Outdoors]

definitely, mine is straight from the shelf in this case haha ;) Definitely a camo with very interesting origins!

[@rastenborg]

Liebermuster- German standardized 1945 camouflage. In the US as Multi Cam. Not wirn by British who preferred paint stripes or no Wipers. .

[@Snuffy03]

That camo looks like some pre-schooler finger painted it. 😂

[@armyand_Outdoors]

considering what was going on in 1945, I wouldn't be surprised with the amount of the population they were pressing into service 😅