camouflage
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The US Government Says It Wasted Millions Of Dollars Dressing The Afghan Army In Proprietary Camouflage
The price tag for the never-ending, but occasionally paused, war in Afghanistan is well north of a trillion dollars by now. Nearly $US100 million ($132 million) of that is attributable to America’s generous decision to buy uniforms for the struggling Afghan National Army — and a newly released inspector general report says that as much…
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How This Weird Dinosaur Used Camouflage To Evade Predators
Researchers from Bristol University have reconstructed the colour patterns of a Cretaceous-era Psittacosaurus, revealing not just its colours and distinct shading patterns, but also clues about the life and environment in which this extinct dinosaur lived.
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How A Freaky WWI Camouflage Trick Could Be Reworked For The 21st Century
During World War I, ships were painted in zebra stripes to deceive the enemy. The effectiveness of this “dazzle” camouflage was never quite clear, but a new study suggests that these zigzag patterns can be quite deceptive when they move.
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The US Army Is Finally Releasing Its New, Old Camo Design
It’s been more than a decade since the US Army adopted its first pixelated camo pattern — it was the start of the Iraq War, and the blocky digital pattern seemed to signal a new era of futuristic warfare. One problem: It didn’t work. At all.