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Sun, December 7, 2003
Military on lookout for urban camouflage
By Stephanie Rubec, Parliamentary Bureau
The Canadian military plans to outfit its soldiers in specially designed camouflage gear that would offer better protection during urban missions. The army is looking into designing an urban camouflage pattern for uniforms and equipment used by soldiers serving in cities such as Kabul, the Sun has learned.
The military has awarded a $400,000 contract to a Danish company, which will determine whether it's feasible to "provide soldier protection from detection within tactical urban ranges" and fool infrared technology.
Bob Balma, the Defence Department's technical authority for army camouflage, said the company will use a Canadian city to determine, by March, if there's a colour scheme that can be used to develop a pattern to better protect soldiers working in cities.
COSTS $7M
Support for a new style of camouflage uniforms -- the military already has temperate woodland and arid patterns -- has grown because the most recent foreign missions have been in cities.
"Obviously there is interest in it because of the new role of the forces," Balma said.
It took the military a decade to design the temperate woodland pattern and print it on a uniform.
The process, from designing the pattern to distributing three sets of fatigues per soldier, costs about $7 million.
Other NATO militaries already use camouflage gear for soldiers working in cities so they escape detection.
"There are so many urban patterns to look at," Balma said.
Apart from a new uniform, the military is also considering what kind of gear soldiers need to work in cities, instead of forests or deserts.
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Considering that urban areas in differant parts of the world display differant color charictoristics, there is no one pattern fits all for this.
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khyros,
Exactly. The same holds true for the woodland, arctic, and desert patterns now available to all the world's armmies. There are simply too diverse patterns out there in all environments. They all work well when employed in the environs they were designed for, but not when used elswhere.
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PC have you gotten a chance to wear the new ARid in theatre as of yet? How do you find it works out for you? Is it of the same basic material as the woodland? I hear its not very durable compared to the OD's. Does any of this hold true?
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wouldn't know. we don't wear desert pattern clothing in the desert.
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Iv seen pics of some of the recce guys wearing it.
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so have I
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Thats "F"ed up.
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