The blue version was so notorious in the militar-enthusiasts community in China it basically became a meme until China finally got around to changing the marines' camo lmao
if you want a completeoly useless fashion statement camo uniform check out the Royal Australian Airforce new camo uniform (from around early 2014), basically take multicam and make it blue, and then have a read of the stupid reason they selected it www.airforce.gov.au/about-us/your-air-force/brand/air-force-general-purpose-uniform, because why have 1 uniform they can wear everywhere like the army when you can have a stupid looking one to wear for general duties and then be issued a proper cammo when on deployment. I live close to the largest RAAF base in Australia and can confirm the uniform looks even stupider in person than it does in the pics and even moree stupid when in close proximity to the armys camo uniforms
@@somerandomalbinodude The GPU actually looks extremely stylish. It´s supposed to be recognizable and identifiable. That´s the point. It´s not a combat uniform.
I had a good laugh at this, but the designer of the camo actually explained why they chose that scheme. 1st. The PLA Marines at that point of time, due to various factors, were tasked with night assaults mainly. That colour scheme was found to be the most effective at camouflaging against NVDs. 2nd. When day breaks or if the assault occurs during the day, then camo is really pointless when everyone is already fighting in rather close range or even urban CQC itself. By that point of time, the blue camo serves as a built in IFF for friendlies providing support. Remember, PLAM is mostly for Taiwan and really, when Chinese are fighting Chinese, in the midst of battle we all really do look the same.
@@Tyrant_8053 I hear you, but it's difficult to shake the feeling that this was just a supreme fashion statement from a powerful general bent on unit recognition, rather than any other consideration, and that the designer is just trying to save the general's face after the fact. I'm not sure the PLA Marines are too happy wearing what basically amounts to a "shoot me, I'm here!" neon sign in a tactical situation.
@Ryan Chao Take a look at all the different variants of patterns the russians use many of them invented by them and many other variations or copies from other countries throughout all the many branches of police, army, Navy etc
True at least with UPC if you rolled around in the dirt enough it wasn't as bad (supposedly), but no amount of rolling in the dirt is going to make those blue patterns blend in anywhere.
@@Its_shiki_time4876 That's probably why UCP was so universally admired and loved by the troops. I'm fucking with you, I know the theory about grey but nobody can deny that the UCP version stuck out like a sore thumb against almost any terrain you could find.
@@Its_shiki_time4876 I've never seen any camo with grey working. I've tested the universal/woodland 07 camo in woodland areas, the grey portions stuck out badly, otherwise it was pretty disruptive.
Because China copies what "prestige" countries do. And when those nations realize it's dumb and move on, the CCP, being a economy of pull, just double down and screw themselves over. Because Status Civilization.
Really quite fascinating to hear about the politicking going on with each branch want to get some special version. I was in the US Marine Corps when we switched from the woodland pattern to the digital utilities in early 2003. Shortly there after, every other branch of the American Armed Forces decided they too had to have their OWN camouflage. Just like in the PRC do USN and USAF both had to have blue digital uniforms. Madness.
The blue uniform thing has always bugged the hell out of me, it's not just pointless (I mean really you're on a ship it doesn't matter to the missile what camo you wear it's gonna blow a hole in the ship) but it's also counterproductive and dangerous because it just makes a sailor blend in when they fall overboard or have to abandon ship. Why the fuck would you want to blend into the ocean? It's not even like you'll be safe if the enemy decides to violate the law of war and kill survivors because everybody has thermal optics on their ships these days. Absolute madness, just pointless peacocking. If they insist on being different and easily identifiable they should just go with a neutral single tone design and embrace the fact they don't need camo, would look a lot better and cost a hell of a lot less.
If you saw them get them quick, I think they might be harder to find in the future, China just banned selling military camouflage not sure the how the impact will be thought
18:50 Thank for that. A few weeks ago i saw a documentary show about Colombia, and the ELN Guerrillas wore that pattern. And I was wondering how these guys got there hands on Type 07 uniforms.
Colombian camo is insanely effective. At first they guarded the uniforms closely but of course it was just a matter of time until the guerrillas had them.
@@abel.orenzo Still, they're doing it illegally, right? The FARC may be no more, but if I remember correctly, when the new digital pattern was released, it was heavily controlled to avoid it finding its way to the guerrillas (which was wishful thinking at best). I remember when I visited your very beautiful country, that I was told not to bring camo pants as they would get me in serious trouble with law enforcement and the military (that was back in the late 90s, in the Cartagena - Santa Marta area).
@@miguelencanarias yeah, mostly due to paramilitary groups and whatnot in the moutains of antioquia. Colombia indeed is a beautiful country, but sadly, like many of our sister latin american countries, we are plagued with violence.
There 2 more branches of Chinese armed forces you didn't mention in the video. Although classified as a paramilitary forces, the Chinese People's Armed Police Force(PAP) is also a important military force in China in fact. The other one is established in 2016, PLA Joint Services Logistics Force. the PLAJSLF use the same uniforms of other branches of PLA, the PAP has two unique pattern of Type 07 Camouflage, but they are being phased out.
The PLA marines are nicknamed "the Smurfs" due to the blue camo. Recently the Marines are planning to switch camos to blend in better. Damn I felt old.
For those who are wondering what they replaced the type 07 oceanic with, they showed off a new soild blue tracksuit uniform with orange pockets and belt rope, as for the marines they don’t wear that camo anymore, they wear multiple uniforms and will wear what’s appropriate for wear they are located
19:08 this guy maneuvers behind tall grass where Atleast two of his buddies are in his field of fire. He then begins firing in the direction of his friends and is obscured by said tall grass
DPM variants (non-British ones) would be a great video topic, it's amazing just how many there are out there. Maybe a video for commonwealth and non commonwealth variants each lol.
During early 1990s, there is a US prototype camo called Vertical Tiger stripe ERDL. The Vertical Tiger stripe ERDL was evaluated by Taiwan(ROC) and our Malaysian military. Later on, both nations use that as a basis to develop their own Tigerstripe pattern. The result was Harimau Belang and ROC Marine Tigerstripe Pattern. These two were replaced by new digital camos around 2014. Fun fact, both Taiwan(ROC) and Malaysia are the first Asian countries to test bullpup rifles way back in the 1970s.
Try covering Singaporean jungle patterns. They were heavily inspired by the US Vietnam War uniforms early on but kinda branched off and did their own thing.
I think they have gone a long way since that crazy phase in the 90s and early 2000s, when you could identify a group of soldiers in a photo as Russians because none of them had the same uniform and equipment.
@@miguelencanarias I'd say so but to this day it feels like I'm seeing pics of Russians in shit like Izlom/Leto/various digital patterns/etc. I know mainline forces have mostly standardized to digiflora with some flora holdovers but there's a lot of variation in other areas, it seems.
Because they went through multiple camo patterns in the 90's that are still floating around and because the various Spetznas units all buy their own commercial gear, usually in Multicam, A-Tacs FG, SS-leto or "Spectre". Same with the Wagner mercs. The regular army is mostly using the various Digiflora patterns by now tho. The blue and red-black patterns you sometimes see are used by police and emergency services, respectively.
Talking of Russian camo, I would love to see how they went over the obvious moral objections when shamelessly copying a German SS pattern to come up with the Partizan camo. Not that it is ineffective, mind you (much to the contrary) but it is hard to imagine the designer not feeling a bit uneasy when presenting the results.
@@miguelencanarias Pretty sure it was developed by a private company, SSO. Also was never adopted by the army, just bought by some special forces units.
I will say I have heard of some legitimate benefits of having a mostly blue camouflage for urban patterns since most buildings today are covered in glass. That said, even the camouflages that did include a lot of blue (British tank camouflages from I believe the 90s) still included a healthy amount of gray and blue.
The British vehicles in West Berlin in the 1980's had various shades of grey and blue-grey, painted in angular blocks. The FV-432 and the Ferret scout car and others were painted in this camouflage pattern.
The ocean pattern, also known as "smurf camo" within and out of China. That being said, you can tell why the latest pattern series debuted in 2019 is a welcoming sight.
Very accurate，professional，comprehensive video. It must take you lots of efforts to do so much deep researches for this video. Really good job. Keep moving!
I was in Haiti back in 2012 and saw some of the Chinese UN detachment and they were wearing the PLARF version of the Type 07 but the brown was more purple.
For those who are really wondering about the marine camo, the designer of the camo actually explained why they chose that scheme. The interview is here: ruclips.net/video/SBnwoNVSf5o/видео.html 1st. The PLA Marines at that point of time, due to various factors, were tasked with night assaults mainly. That colour scheme was found to be the most effective at camouflaging against NVDs. 2nd. When day breaks or if the assault occurs during the day, then camo is really pointless when everyone is already fighting in rather close range or even urban CQC itself. By that point of time, the blue camo serves as a built in IFF for friendlies providing support. Remember, PLAM is mostly for Taiwan and really, when Chinese are fighting Chinese, in the midst of battle, we all really do look the same.
Hunter camos are also issued to recon units in the division. At least that is the case when I was in the service, but we never use it during the training. It is more like a badge thingy, show off you are in recon unit.
Try doing the Indian Military , Paramilitary and CAPF camouflage patterns. It's so damn complicated, we stopped talking about it. It is standardised to a degree but the order version are still used.
This video is great! I learned a lot, I barely knew anything about this shit before seeing the video. It’s a shame that this channel doesn’t get more views
Quality video. Thanks for sharing. Well made. It Will be great to have the same for Colombian uniforms, we do have three different camouflages with a great history behind each one. Glad to provide any support.
so they want effective camouflage patterns but also want their patterns to standout/represent their branch of their military. Is this a fashion show or a military force?
Check out this video, the Chinese UCP pattern is actually pretty effective and definitely more effective than the US Army one ruclips.net/video/BMgfKS53H08/видео.html
Indonesian here. I didn't know that Brimob is using Type 07 camo. Usually Brimob only use solid colour uniform either black or gray BDU. But they have their own standard camo, that is a vertical tiger stripe. Only used for dealing with terrorist or separatist group hiding in the jungle. I think they used Type 07 for a brief period, before they settled on vertical tiger stripe. FYI Brimob is a unique force. They serve as a SWAT type unit and at the same also involved in combat, something you don't see very often in western world. Brimob saw a lot of action in 1975 during Operation Seroja aka Indonesian invasion of East Timor.
My feeling is 90% of the camo patterns job is to identify the wearer and help with morale. When a camo matches the background it can be very effective but it is rare that a soldier would need it and the chance of a issue camo matching the terrain a long shot. SF units can pick patterns for a specific mission.
I've seen the marine combat uniform that is much more effective and less bright and visible than the version seen in many marine exercises and also worn by marines and crew members on board naval ships. A good example is a photo of several ZBD-05 IFV in snow conditions in Northern China, the camouflage is several shades of blue greys and it hides the vehicles very well. The reason why the PLA has so many uniforms is that the country is the 3rd largest by physical area (after Russia and Canada and slightly bigger than the US) so the types of terrain and weather conditions varies from sub Arctic to sub tropical, semi desert, grasslands and agricultural land, forests, desert, hills and mountains and valleys etc. Plus the PLA Ground Forces, PLA Navy, PLA Airforce, PLA Regular Reserves, PLA Militia Reserves, and the Strategic Rocket Forces, the PAPF Armed Police, the CCG Coastguard, the MSA marine safety administration, and other military, defence and security and paramilitary forces.
Some of the “soldiers” featured aren’t actually army. They are what china calls Armed Police which is a separate branch from the armed forces even if it is paramilitary.
Pls do DPM, DDPM, MTP, and some of the in-between experimental camos later. I can't believe DPM, one of the most common camos alongside Woodland, has never been made a video of in this channel.
Ya ain’t done Telo Mimetico yet? Ain’t that like the first standard-issue camo pattern? Might be worthwhile to cover the pattern and the Folgore “samurai” vest like you covered the US assault vest and British parachute denison.
Correct me if I'm wrong but digital camo isn't inherently better, it is just an easy way to achieve both macro and micro effectiveness. The classic US military woodland is good at distance but loses effectiveness at close range (inside 50 meters), good at macro but not micro. Multicam, Kryptek, and most digital camos are able to achieve both by having details (like pixelation) that break up the shape of the pattern at close range making it more effective at close range but also large chunks that still help to break up the wearers shape at ranges where the details are not visible.
The blue version was so notorious in the militar-enthusiasts community in China it basically became a meme until China finally got around to changing the marines' camo lmao
The marines and peratroopers are getting rid from it?
@@lil__boi3027 Yeah no more smurfs.
@@bodyno3158 Oh boi cheap milsurp type 07 blue incoming I can't wait
@@lil__boi3027 probably not, likely it'll be given as military aid to Africa and used to death
I can’t find anything that says they’re changing it? And if they are changing the marine camo, to what?
PLAN: "the blue camo is useless"
US Navy: "first time?"
if you want a completeoly useless fashion statement camo uniform check out the Royal Australian Airforce new camo uniform (from around early 2014), basically take multicam and make it blue, and then have a read of the stupid reason they selected it www.airforce.gov.au/about-us/your-air-force/brand/air-force-general-purpose-uniform, because why have 1 uniform they can wear everywhere like the army when you can have a stupid looking one to wear for general duties and then be issued a proper cammo when on deployment. I live close to the largest RAAF base in Australia and can confirm the uniform looks even stupider in person than it does in the pics and even moree stupid when in close proximity to the armys camo uniforms
@CriticalAlfredo Comment of the year, I spilled my coffee all over the keyboard when I read it!
@@somerandomalbinodude
The GPU actually looks extremely stylish.
It´s supposed to be recognizable and identifiable. That´s the point. It´s not a combat uniform.
I had a good laugh at this, but the designer of the camo actually explained why they chose that scheme.
1st. The PLA Marines at that point of time, due to various factors, were tasked with night assaults mainly. That colour scheme was found to be the most effective at camouflaging against NVDs.
2nd. When day breaks or if the assault occurs during the day, then camo is really pointless when everyone is already fighting in rather close range or even urban CQC itself. By that point of time, the blue camo serves as a built in IFF for friendlies providing support.
Remember, PLAM is mostly for Taiwan and really, when Chinese are fighting Chinese, in the midst of battle we all really do look the same.
@@Tyrant_8053 I hear you, but it's difficult to shake the feeling that this was just a supreme fashion statement from a powerful general bent on unit recognition, rather than any other consideration, and that the designer is just trying to save the general's face after the fact. I'm not sure the PLA Marines are too happy wearing what basically amounts to a "shoot me, I'm here!" neon sign in a tactical situation.
Wow, and here I thought the US uniform system was overly complex.
This isn't even too messy, take a look at all the camouflages the Russian Armed Forces use.
@@bluecaptainIT Yes, the russians are the kings of complexity
@Ryan Chao Take a look at all the different variants of patterns the russians use many of them invented by them and many other variations or copies from other countries throughout all the many branches of police, army, Navy etc
@Ryan Chao 😂 Didnt get the joke First time, It makes sense.
Russian camouflage looks great. EMR, and the KLMK suits are 👌
The blue dominant patterns look like that carpet meme camo.
Actually uniform history has a specific video on that pattern.
@@darthhodges That completely slipped my mind. Thanks for reminding me. ^^
That carpet camo was real too
That pattern is unofficially nicknamed “The Smurfs” by the Chinese public.
@@rickzabroski6347 And with a thinly veiled hint to sarcasm no less.
How many camos do you want china?
China: Yes
Even Russia goes.....
”God damn, that is a lot of camouflage patterns!”
After 10 years, they've already replaced it with a new family of camos lol
Well when you have that many people...
True lol
Russian enter the chat
I didn’t realize how both young and old this camouflage is.
Well the 07 is already phased out mostly so it's really just all entirely old. A lot of the equipment you see in this video is already replaced.
US troops: "wtf our uniform is blue! How are we gonna blend in??"
China: "hold my beer"
"hold my Tsingtao"
It might just serve as a conventional training uniform and it's cheaper during the non-war period.
Hold my baijiu
@@Legenderrydanny hold my erguotou
“It is unavailable to the public” sums up about 90% of my experience researching the PLA
I found some surplus chinese gloves for sale online. They appear to be the arid pattern but are being sold as digital woodland. o_O
if you want some T07 I may help you...
It’s very limited on western websites, there’s just not much people covering it, if you go to Chinese websites you can find tons of information
@@zidan1hao917 Yes I like the camo and want to buy it.
I can definitely send you one with ease, paypal me 100 whatever currency in your country and I will make things all set for ya.
Can you do a dedicated vid to the Type 19 "starry sky" pattern? It actually seems like a great camo
It looks pretty high speed
Chinese always make meme with it as it looks so close to the US army style.
@@forthesakeoffreedom I thought it is more like EMR used by Russian.
plz
"Star sky" camo is just a transition, a small amount of equipment, combat uniforms, and now the Type 21.
On the plus side, next time you complain about how awful UCP was, just take a look at Chinese Marines. You will feel better.
True at least with UPC if you rolled around in the dirt enough it wasn't as bad (supposedly), but no amount of rolling in the dirt is going to make those blue patterns blend in anywhere.
@Gerd Wiesler grey is extremely good because of how the human brain works. The color is so subdued its just hard to pick up on.
@@Its_shiki_time4876 That's probably why UCP was so universally admired and loved by the troops. I'm fucking with you, I know the theory about grey but nobody can deny that the UCP version stuck out like a sore thumb against almost any terrain you could find.
They are replacing the whole thing again.
@@Its_shiki_time4876 I've never seen any camo with grey working. I've tested the universal/woodland 07 camo in woodland areas, the grey portions stuck out badly, otherwise it was pretty disruptive.
I always wondered why the PLA had digtal camo painted on their vechiles
First comment right here ^
digital camo vehicle are used for national day parade only. Most vehicles are plain green.
@@1917MSC ethier way china is obsessed with putting camoflage on everything
Because China copies what "prestige" countries do. And when those nations realize it's dumb and move on, the CCP, being a economy of pull, just double down and screw themselves over. Because Status Civilization.
@@ChairmanKam What are you saying
Really quite fascinating to hear about the politicking going on with each branch want to get some special version. I was in the US Marine Corps when we switched from the woodland pattern to the digital utilities in early 2003. Shortly there after, every other branch of the American Armed Forces decided they too had to have their OWN camouflage. Just like in the PRC do USN and USAF both had to have blue digital uniforms.
Madness.
The blue uniform thing has always bugged the hell out of me, it's not just pointless (I mean really you're on a ship it doesn't matter to the missile what camo you wear it's gonna blow a hole in the ship) but it's also counterproductive and dangerous because it just makes a sailor blend in when they fall overboard or have to abandon ship. Why the fuck would you want to blend into the ocean? It's not even like you'll be safe if the enemy decides to violate the law of war and kill survivors because everybody has thermal optics on their ships these days.
Absolute madness, just pointless peacocking. If they insist on being different and easily identifiable they should just go with a neutral single tone design and embrace the fact they don't need camo, would look a lot better and cost a hell of a lot less.
@@MrMattumbo isn't the other uniform that navy uses on ships also blue?
@@nullValo What other uniform? I know they have the all blue camo BDU type uniforms and then dress whites.
@@MrMattumbo the overall they use while on the ships? Maybe I'm being wrong, sorry if its the case.
Reminds me of the movie pantagon war
Chinese Type 07 Arid is one of my favourite patterns in terms of how cool it looks
Im a collector and this is one of the few camo patterns I'm missing because it's damn near impossible to get this uniform under 250€ in Europe
Even in china. That is rare item.
If you saw them get them quick, I think they might be harder to find in the future, China just banned selling military camouflage not sure the how the impact will be thought
In Hungary you can buy it for aound 50-60 dollars with vest. It is trash. Buy russians!
@@mathiasskrutl2662 The cheap ones probably are fake, lots of fakes around
@@underhorse5367 they have mostly chinese writing in it, idk
This makes the US DOD camo wars seem simple by comparison.
18:50 Thank for that. A few weeks ago i saw a documentary show about Colombia, and the ELN Guerrillas wore that pattern. And I was wondering how these guys got there hands on Type 07 uniforms.
Colombian camo is insanely effective. At first they guarded the uniforms closely but of course it was just a matter of time until the guerrillas had them.
colombian military has an extremely similar pattern to type 07,insanely hard to get outside of COL, but its super effective
@@miguelencanarias there are people who sell the uniforms in marketplace like el hueco in medellin
@@abel.orenzo Still, they're doing it illegally, right? The FARC may be no more, but if I remember correctly, when the new digital pattern was released, it was heavily controlled to avoid it finding its way to the guerrillas (which was wishful thinking at best). I remember when I visited your very beautiful country, that I was told not to bring camo pants as they would get me in serious trouble with law enforcement and the military (that was back in the late 90s, in the Cartagena - Santa Marta area).
@@miguelencanarias yeah, mostly due to paramilitary groups and whatnot in the moutains of antioquia. Colombia indeed is a beautiful country, but sadly, like many of our sister latin american countries, we are plagued with violence.
There 2 more branches of Chinese armed forces you didn't mention in the video. Although classified as a paramilitary forces, the Chinese People's Armed Police Force(PAP) is also a important military force in China in fact. The other one is established in 2016, PLA Joint Services Logistics Force. the PLAJSLF use the same uniforms of other branches of PLA, the PAP has two unique pattern of Type 07 Camouflage, but they are being phased out.
武警主要起对内防卫的作用，针对国内安保和重要地区防护以及反恐这类任务。。。
@@stevenzhang3249因此武警的实际任务比正规军的要多得多。镇压远远比开战重要
The PLA marines are nicknamed "the Smurfs" due to the blue camo.
Recently the Marines are planning to switch camos to blend in better. Damn I felt old.
Tiger stripe next please
For those who are wondering what they replaced the type 07 oceanic with, they showed off a new soild blue tracksuit uniform with orange pockets and belt rope, as for the marines they don’t wear that camo anymore, they wear multiple uniforms and will wear what’s appropriate for wear they are located
19:08 this guy maneuvers behind tall grass where Atleast two of his buddies are in his field of fire. He then begins firing in the direction of his friends and is obscured by said tall grass
Tigerstripe and DPM would be great for y’all to do.
DPM variants (non-British ones) would be a great video topic, it's amazing just how many there are out there.
Maybe a video for commonwealth and non commonwealth variants each lol.
@@Kav. Been wearing DPM as my first uniform in the army reserve here in the PH. Well it is effective in dry fallen leaves.
I'm glad this channel exists! Really interesting stuff. I hope you can cover A-TACS camo eventually. I first saw it in the show Strike Back.
My personal favorite and what use for my load out Atacs FG primary with Atacs AU shirt for different environments
Thanks
0:01 Malaysian's Harimau Belang(predecessor to the digital pattern version) uniform spotted.
18:02 Look, it's Corporal Upham.
During early 1990s, there is a US prototype camo called Vertical Tiger stripe ERDL. The Vertical Tiger stripe ERDL was evaluated by Taiwan(ROC) and our Malaysian military. Later on, both nations use that as a basis to develop their own Tigerstripe pattern. The result was Harimau Belang and ROC Marine Tigerstripe Pattern. These two were replaced by new digital camos around 2014.
Fun fact, both Taiwan(ROC) and Malaysia are the first Asian countries to test bullpup rifles way back in the 1970s.
Amazing work!! Greetings from FET!
Pin the link on fetcord lmao
Love you guys!!
So happy this video came out have been looking at type 07 lately great work my friend
can you make a video about the EMR and its variants?
One of the best of your videos. More Chinese camos pls!
This is actually the best overview of type 07 camouflage I've ever known. Good job.
Try covering Singaporean jungle patterns. They were heavily inspired by the US Vietnam War uniforms early on but kinda branched off and did their own thing.
We used a ton of ERDL Brown. My brother still has a set of ERDL No. 4 uniform.
You should do Vegetato or Multicam variants use around the world
Ew
YES, a video based on all multicam variants would be great considering the incredible amounts of them.
Yes ! I've been waiting for this video ever since I found this channel. ty.
I just sit down and thought, what shall I watch? This video pops up... Excellent :-)
Will you ever do a video explaining why Russia seems to use a million different patterns across their armed forces?
I think they have gone a long way since that crazy phase in the 90s and early 2000s, when you could identify a group of soldiers in a photo as Russians because none of them had the same uniform and equipment.
@@miguelencanarias I'd say so but to this day it feels like I'm seeing pics of Russians in shit like Izlom/Leto/various digital patterns/etc. I know mainline forces have mostly standardized to digiflora with some flora holdovers but there's a lot of variation in other areas, it seems.
Because they went through multiple camo patterns in the 90's that are still floating around and because the various Spetznas units all buy their own commercial gear, usually in Multicam, A-Tacs FG, SS-leto or "Spectre". Same with the Wagner mercs.
The regular army is mostly using the various Digiflora patterns by now tho.
The blue and red-black patterns you sometimes see are used by police and emergency services, respectively.
Talking of Russian camo, I would love to see how they went over the obvious moral objections when shamelessly copying a German SS pattern to come up with the Partizan camo. Not that it is ineffective, mind you (much to the contrary) but it is hard to imagine the designer not feeling a bit uneasy when presenting the results.
@@miguelencanarias Pretty sure it was developed by a private company, SSO. Also was never adopted by the army, just bought by some special forces units.
Great video, complete information on 07 camouflage, hope to see more quality videos in the future:D
I will say I have heard of some legitimate benefits of having a mostly blue camouflage for urban patterns since most buildings today are covered in glass. That said, even the camouflages that did include a lot of blue (British tank camouflages from I believe the 90s) still included a healthy amount of gray and blue.
Add some explosions in an urban battlefield and that glass is shattered to shreds.
@@madmarvshighwaywarrior2870 Very true, I don't think the British tank camouflage was even tested in combat, only in British towns
The British vehicles in West Berlin in the 1980's had various shades of grey and blue-grey, painted in angular blocks. The FV-432 and the Ferret scout car and others were painted in this camouflage pattern.
14:38, what kind of rifles are these?
Hoping for north korea next, as they have a few weird patterns, too.
The ocean pattern, also known as "smurf camo" within and out of China.
That being said, you can tell why the latest pattern series debuted in 2019 is a welcoming sight.
3:28 this camo is acually very effective in woodland areas I own one and it never failed at doing its job. I want to know why didn't use it
Very accurate，professional，comprehensive video. It must take you lots of efforts to do so much deep researches for this video. Really good job. Keep moving!
I was in Haiti back in 2012 and saw some of the Chinese UN detachment and they were wearing the PLARF version of the Type 07 but the brown was more purple.
Pretty cool! Good explanation on the BDUs. (battle dress uniforms) :)
Greetings,
Jeff
Thanks for featuring Far East Tactical!
For those who are really wondering about the marine camo, the designer of the camo actually explained why they chose that scheme. The interview is here: ruclips.net/video/SBnwoNVSf5o/видео.html
1st. The PLA Marines at that point of time, due to various factors, were tasked with night assaults mainly. That colour scheme was found to be the most effective at camouflaging against NVDs.
2nd. When day breaks or if the assault occurs during the day, then camo is really pointless when everyone is already fighting in rather close range or even urban CQC itself. By that point of time, the blue camo serves as a built in IFF for friendlies providing support.
Remember, PLAM is mostly for Taiwan and really, when Chinese are fighting Chinese, in the midst of battle, we all really do look the same.
Do you know where I can buy the type 07 camouflage, I live in us BTW?
Now as you've done China's long list of camo patterns, you should do Russia's!
Hunter camos are also issued to recon units in the division. At least that is the case when I was in the service, but we never use it during the training. It is more like a badge thingy, show off you are in recon unit.
Try doing the Indian Military , Paramilitary and CAPF camouflage patterns. It's so damn complicated, we stopped talking about it. It is standardised to a degree but the order version are still used.
Probably a good time to become familiar with these.
Now I’ll know who I’m shooting at. Excellent work
These videos of our enemies uniforms are very informative for identification learning
This video is great! I learned a lot, I barely knew anything about this shit before seeing the video. It’s a shame that this channel doesn’t get more views
Hey, whatever happened to the Tibet pattern (a brownish copy of the German Flecktarn)? Is it still in use or was it replaced by the digital version?
If you want to get some several Russian manufacturers do stuff in Tibet. Splav company for instance. It's a great pattern. EBay.
Quality video. Thanks for sharing. Well made. It Will be great to have the same for Colombian uniforms, we do have three different camouflages with a great history behind each one. Glad to provide any support.
A Type 19 breakdown would be great.
Im curious about the patterns they developed for the rainbow mountains.
14:10 They call DPM style camo "hunter camo". I have read many Chinese sources stating DPM camo and copies of it called 獵人迷彩 which means hunter camo.
so they want effective camouflage patterns but also want their patterns to standout/represent their branch of their military. Is this a fashion show or a military force?
Conflict between different branches I suppose
@@shermanfirefly5410 no，You can quickly tell what kind of service these soldiers belong to
no，You can quickly tell what kind of service these soldiers belong to
Nice content! can you also review china's new camo, the "star camo" or "xingkong" camoflage?
You did it China, you somehow managed to make the UCP camo pattern look even worse
Check out this video, the Chinese UCP pattern is actually pretty effective and definitely more effective than the US Army one
ruclips.net/video/BMgfKS53H08/видео.html
@@Browsingandbrowsing Pretty sure he means the Navy and Airforce patterns. The Army pattern is pretty good.
Can you do dpm p,please
Indonesian here. I didn't know that Brimob is using Type 07 camo. Usually Brimob only use solid colour uniform either black or gray BDU. But they have their own standard camo, that is a vertical tiger stripe. Only used for dealing with terrorist or separatist group hiding in the jungle. I think they used Type 07 for a brief period, before they settled on vertical tiger stripe.
FYI Brimob is a unique force. They serve as a SWAT type unit and at the same also involved in combat, something you don't see very often in western world. Brimob saw a lot of action in 1975 during Operation Seroja aka Indonesian invasion of East Timor.
Now you have to add a footnote for the Snoop Dogg brand, Walmart sold camo 😂
When will you do the Mexican Army/Marines digital camo
Can you make a video on the new Starry Sky camo that replaced the 07?
So back in 2009 I spray painted my laptop a digital camo pattern, and it looks very similar to woodland 07!
My feeling is 90% of the camo patterns job is to identify the wearer and help with morale. When a camo matches the background it can be very effective but it is rare that a soldier would need it and the chance of a issue camo matching the terrain a long shot. SF units can pick patterns for a specific mission.
Hey, can you tell me the name of the song in the intro?
What a fantastic vid. Thanks!
A months worth of research for this
Can anyone explain how blue camo is useful, besides being a fashion statement?
11:18
Right is it just me or at 15:33 the police forces have tiny little blue police lights on their helmets?
News: security threats from China
Me: *sees this video*
Also me: I’m seeing a pattern I’m not so sure I like
I've seen the marine combat uniform that is much more effective and less bright and visible than the version seen in many marine exercises and also worn by marines and crew members on board naval ships.
A good example is a photo of several ZBD-05 IFV in snow conditions in Northern China, the camouflage is several shades of blue greys and it hides the vehicles very well.
The reason why the PLA has so many uniforms is that the country is the 3rd largest by physical area (after Russia and Canada and slightly bigger than the US) so the types of terrain and weather conditions varies from sub Arctic to sub tropical, semi desert, grasslands and agricultural land, forests, desert, hills and mountains and valleys etc. Plus the PLA Ground Forces, PLA Navy, PLA Airforce, PLA Regular Reserves, PLA Militia Reserves, and the Strategic Rocket Forces, the PAPF Armed Police, the CCG Coastguard, the MSA marine safety administration, and other military, defence and security and paramilitary forces.
If any of you want to see how effective their UCP is, Brent did a video on it:
ruclips.net/video/BMgfKS53H08/видео.html
Would love to see Russian Digi Flora!
Great video! What can you say more about the type 19?
Doing a video of China's PAP uniform patterns? There is one that looks cool.
Any plan on covering its successor?
18:06 I believe the armenian soldier is using an type 04 vest
In 14:34 still love how that camo really looked the same to Philippine DPM camo
will you make a video about Ghillie suite??
Hy, can i have a question? In your intro there are thos guys marching with the beretts in this green type uniform, what is that camo called?
It is the mexican digital camo
There uniforms are nice, also they made a new camo called stary sky
Among Chinese army aficionados, we call the Marine corps uniform the Smurfs... Because it's so obvious😂😂😂😂
Some of the “soldiers” featured aren’t actually army. They are what china calls Armed Police which is a separate branch from the armed forces even if it is paramilitary.
I like the 195th mechanised infantry op force uniform camo. The green looks interesting!
6:05 im sorry, but which one is supposed to be urban
Pls do DPM, DDPM, MTP, and some of the in-between experimental camos later. I can't believe DPM, one of the most common camos alongside Woodland, has never been made a video of in this channel.
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Ya ain’t done Telo Mimetico yet? Ain’t that like the first standard-issue camo pattern? Might be worthwhile to cover the pattern and the Folgore “samurai” vest like you covered the US assault vest and British parachute denison.
Correct me if I'm wrong but digital camo isn't inherently better, it is just an easy way to achieve both macro and micro effectiveness. The classic US military woodland is good at distance but loses effectiveness at close range (inside 50 meters), good at macro but not micro. Multicam, Kryptek, and most digital camos are able to achieve both by having details (like pixelation) that break up the shape of the pattern at close range making it more effective at close range but also large chunks that still help to break up the wearers shape at ranges where the details are not visible.
Can you make a video on their newest type-19 starry sky camouflage?
Can you make a video about Type 19 camo, please?
I love your videos! Can you make a video of the italian vegetata????
You should do Australian soon both the old auscam and our new multicam patterns
Wow, a deep dive indeed!
They also have a darker green and a darker brown dominant 07 style camo for their People's Armed Police
The camo at 14:40 is pretty much identical to the DPM variant of the Philippine army.