Army Selects New Camouflage Pattern

[vossman]

They said this exact same thing about the ACU and ABU. Its so much better.... Blah Blah Fucking Blah. So with the decision to get away from service specific uniforms, is every branch gonna wear this?

Fuck we waste $$!!!

[Mick-Boy]

A little background on scorpion from Soldier Systems.

http://soldiersystems.net/2014/05/23...ry/#more-80374

[USMC_5-Echo]

Fuck we waste $$!!!

With this matter yes the army does waste so much money. The Marine Corps, Air Force, and even the navy with their ugly ass ones have at least stuck with their digi-cam decisions

[10mm-man]

Four years and hundreds of millions of dollars go into the most exhaustive camouflage testing in military history and the Army settles on something that they've had in their inventory for more than a decade because they balked at a $25mil price tag.

Way to go government. Way to go.

I think crye turned down the $25 million dollar offer from the .GOV .MIL. Not the other way around.

[cstone]

That stuff looks awesome in the supermarket or on the Metro in DC. I can barely see those service members as they jet on down I-25 on their motorcycles

[speedysst]

From what others have posted, there are slight differences (such as no vertical elements in the Scorpion). Crye owns the Multicam pattern but not the Scorpion pattern. So yeah, since the govt went with Scorpion, it seems to me it was a slap in the face to Crye. Personally I liked the US4CES patterns and once I take over the empire, I will mandate those uniforms be issued.

This is the image of the new camo from the Military.com page



This is photos from the Crye Precision web site.



Are these not the same pattern?

[Brian]

Crye helped develop both patterns, but only has the trademark on Multicam. Offering to sell the Multicam rights to the army for $25mil - I can't tell anymore if that's a good deal or a bad one, given how much the government spends on everything else. But going with a pattern you already own that is 95% similar - I can't fault them for that decision. Just wish it hadn't taken this long and this much money to get to that decision.

[Brian]

... and of course you can't have a camo conversation without my favorite camo pic:

[USMC_5-Echo]

... and of course you can't have a camo conversation without my favorite camo pic:

Yeah no clue why the army would move away from that camo. Now what are they going to do when they want to hide on their moms couch?

[clublights]

... and of course you can't have a camo conversation without my favorite camo pic:

This pic reminds of when the Air Force went to BDU's in the 80's ...

Pop (Helo Mech) came home with his first pair to unit patch up stood against a white wall arms out and says "you can't see me !" me being the sarcastic kid I was respond with " no your just a floating head and hands! " ..


good times good times.