Combat uniforms featuring the service’s newest camo pattern will be available for sale starting in the summer of 2015, the Army announced Thursday.
The Army is calling its new camo the Operational Camouflage Pattern, though it’s been referred to in previous tests as Scorpion W2. It is similar in appearance to Crye Precision’s MultiCam, but was developed by Army Natick Labs in Massachusetts.
Scorpion W2 uses a color palette of muted greens, light beige and dark brown.
The Army plans to transition to this new camo over time, phasing out the unpopular gray-green Universal Combat Pattern of the ACU. The Army, in a statement, said a phase-out of the older uniform was “fiscally responsible.”
via UPDATE: New images show details of new Army camo | Army Times | armytimes.com.
It looks a heck of a lot better than the UCP pattern.
Interestingly, the Army is looking to contract to have body army carriers and other Load Bearing Equipment in the UCP pattern dyed coyote brown as an interim measure. There’s a heck of a lot more brown in nature than green, so that strikes us as a pretty good idea until such time as such older stocks are worn out and are replaced with an OCP pattern.
Getting mighty close to faded BDU’s.
I had much the same thought as jon spencer.
Paul
bring back branch insignia.
Branch insignia hasn’t been on the combat uniform for enlisted personnel since maybe WWII.
Should I have specified branch insignia for officers? I remember seeing them on DCUs in Iraq in 2006.
Why did the Army put an aiming point in the center of the chest?
Paul
French style rank insignia placement. Goes with the beret.
It is a bit more discreet than having it on your collar, and discretion pays off sometimes.