Stylized palette rendering — not a reproduction of the licensed pattern.
Tropentarn
Flecktarn's sparse desert twin.
Family
Germany
Era
Current issue
In service
1993–present
Environments
arid
History
Flecktarn's arid counterpart, fielded in the early 1990s when Bundeswehr deployments to Somalia exposed the need for a hot-climate uniform. Sparser green and brown dots on light tan; issued for Afghanistan and other desert deployments.
In the field
Light tan with green/brown dots; common on surplus desert kit.
Where it served
Middle EastNorth AfricaCentral Asia
Stylized region map — where the pattern was designed to work and primarily served.
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