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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Camouflage isn’t only about making you seem invisible, or otherwise blending into the background to make yourself harder to see.
Camouflage is also about breaking up your silhouette. The perfect example of this is are zebra. Zebra do *not* blend into their environment; their bodies are stark white and black against a brown and green ground. You can see these guys from a mile away. But those stripes? They break up their silhouette. If you look at a huge group of zebra, you’ll have a *really* hard time seeing where one ends and the other begins. You won’t be able to tell how many are there, you won’t know where their heads are from their asses, and it’ll just like a giant, pulsating mass of stripes.
Urban camo is more-or-less the same idea. At a distance you’ll absolutely be able to see a soldier. But you’ll have a harder time telling where their chest is, or their arms are, or where one soldier ends and the next begins.
It’s nearly impossible to just blend into an urban environment, so the camo just makes it hard for the human brain to see what’s going on. The smallest advantage to avoid death and all that
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