China

Camouflage Patterns of the Chinese Armed Forces

PLA (People's Liberation Army)

• PLA Type 81 reversible disruptive pattern. Used during the Sino-Vietnamese war 1979-1980s.

• Type 91 winter pattern

• Type 99 woodland pattern

• Type 03 woodland pattern. A rip-stop version of the Type 99 Woodland pattern.

• Type 99 Air Force Paratroops four-colour urban pattern. Used 1999-2005.

• Type 99 People's Liberation Navy four-colour Oceanic pattern. Used 1999-2005.

• PLA "Flecktarn" pattern used for Physical Training (PT) shirts etc. Used since 2001.

• Type 03 PLA Tibet Region pattern - Tibet Flecktarn. A brown version of the German Flecktarn pattern. Used since 2003.

• Type 04 Special Forces DPM pattern.

• Type 07 general issue digital pattern. Introduced 2007.

• The arid version of the Type 07 digital pattern. Introduced 2007.

• The ocean version of the Type 07 digital pattern. Used by the Chinese Navy.

• The tropical version of the Type 07 digital pattern.

Armed Police

• Armed Police 1st pattern. Used during the 1980s.

• Type 87 Armed Police bright orange pattern - used by Forest Fighting Units. Used since 2005.

• Type 05 digitized pattern - in use since 2005

• Type 07 digitized pattern - in use since 2007