Stylized palette rendering — not a reproduction of the licensed pattern.

Flecktarn

Bundeswehr's 1990 five-color dot pattern.

Family

Germany

Era

Current issue

In service

1990–present

Environments

woodland

History

Selected out of the Bundeswehr's late-1970s camouflage trials and generally issued from about 1990, the five-color dot pattern is tuned to dark central-European conifer forest. It has influenced patterns from Denmark's M84 to Japan's JGSDF family and enjoys a large surplus following.

In the field

Outstanding in dark European forest; instantly recognizable dots.

Where it served

Western Europe

Stylized region map — where the pattern was designed to work and primarily served.

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