I understand that a camouflage uniform could work for someone hidden in a forest as its patterns help you blend in.
but, how the black and grey “urban camouflage” pattern make soldiers harder to find in an urban setting? I don’t see how that helps you blend in with the walls of buildings
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Lol nope.
It’s the opposite of camouflage.
Multicam Black was meant to be intimidating, therefore meant to be seen.
[multicam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiCam?wprov=sfla1)
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Your eyes are trained to look for a silhouette of a person. By breaking up the silhouette, your eyes might look over it. In the old days they used to train soldiers to look the opposite way they read, so as to be forced to study what they are looking at. So if you read left to right, scan your area right to left.
The Brits called their camo ‘disruptive pattern material’, also the title of the definitive book on the subject by streetware icon Hardey Blechman*.*
Others have detailed a lot the specific answers. I would like to add a more general note.
Most people think camouflage is “something that makes you invisible” in the same way a disguise is specifically something that makes you look like some other person.
This is not the case. Camouflage and for that matter, any sort of colour and patterning has the main goal of disrupting the ability to clearly understand what is being seen. Some camouflage can be extremely visible and also very effective because an observer knows they saw something, but not exactly what did they see. And what you can’t communicate, doesn’t exist.
Examples in nature are zebras. They are clearly very visible but it’s almost impossible to get a good count or even a general idea of what is going on in a group of moving zebras.
Many cetaceans do this too: They are dark up top and very clear at the belly. This makes them hard to recognize if seen from above (dark against dark water) or below ( clear against clear water.
Highjacking this thread to say when trying to walk across a pedestrian crossing, make it safer by staring at the drivers because their brain is more likely to recognize a face.
Human eyes are extremely good at seeing human shaped objects. So much so, we often startle ourselves mistaking things almost human shaped. The purpose of camouflage of any kind is to break up outlines into patterns that remain unrecognizable. It’s to stop someone from seeing you without looking for you.
The videos of Ukraine give a good idea for what urban warfare looks like. Lots of dark and gray colors. Camouflage breaks up your image so the person seeing you doesn’t recognize you as the person shape you actually are. So it makes sense to hide with similar colors and randomized shapes.
Also don’t forget. Usually when there is fighting in a city there will be lots of rubble and destroyed buildings, and not many pristine white walls where you stand out.
Also keep in mind they are designed to blend in to WARTORN areas, not necessarily un-damaged walls or buildings. Think Rubble Piles and shelled buildings, half-broken walls and concrete detritus.
Note that you’re not supposed to be invisible in front of a nice clean office building with glass walls and a park bench next to it. You’re supposed to be hard to see from a distance among rubble. There’d be a lot of dust and concrete debris in an urban battlefield. That’s where the urban camo comes into play.
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