Why were the camouflage uniforms (green, brown, yellow) adopted so late? When it seems that it would be pretty obvious that a soldier would die less often in the field if he’s harder to spot? Even in WW1 French were still wearing bright blue and red uniforms?
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Combat changes the requirements.
On the past the most important task was to indetify your troops. Thus counties had unique fancy uniforms. Clearly wisible and distinguishable.
Also almost all battles were in frontal clashes, thus hiding was not important. That became important with mass artillery adoptation and PRECISE long range weapon. that cause camo creation.
Precise weapon is very important. If you see movies about 18 century you would see rank of soldiers who march straight and than shoot. If you think that was stupid than you were wrong. At 18 century weapos were extremely unrealiable. From 60m only 2% of all bullets hit their targets. From 30m it was around 15%. Therefore the army which shoot last ( and therefore came clother before attack) won the battle.
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