Switzerland
Swiss camouflage patterns
- Zelteinheiten 1901 pattern. A splinter pattern resembling the German WW2 pattern. [1]
Used from around 1938 to 1955. The pattern was used for rectangular shelter halves. The pattern on one side was overprinted with small yellow dots (on the right on the image below).
- Swiss Leibermuster. A copy of the German WW2 Leibermuster pattern. Introduced around 1955-1957, it was in 1992 replaced by the TAZ 90 pattern. Used for shelter halves and the TAZ57 uniform and later the TAZ83 (TAZ is the abbreviation of "Tarnanzug" - Camouflage uniform - in German, called Tenue d'assaut (TASS) in French. The word Kampftenue is also used in German). There is several variations of the colours and the shapes. A couple is show below. The pattern is often called Alpentarn or Alpenflage by collectors
- The TAZ 90 (M92). Introduced in 1990 as a replacement of the Swiss Leibermuster. The shapes of the pattern are the same, but the colours have been changed - the colours for this pattern was chosen by the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich to suit the nature in Switzerland.
- There is also a desert version of the TAZ 90 - introduced around 2008 and used by Swiss troops serving abroad. This pattern is nicknamed "Südtarn" ("southern camouflage")
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Notes
- ↑ Despite the patterns being quite similar there are a number of differences between the Swiss and the German shelter halves/zeltbahns: - the Swiss shelter is rectangular, the German triangular; the German zeltbahn is not having the yellow dots on one of the sides; there is green "lines" through the brown areas of the Swiss pattern - sometimes connecting the green areas. The German Zeltbahn does not have these lines. The Swiss shelter does at least sometime have a "coin" of metal with the manufacturer etc. German Zeltbahns do never.