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Welcome to CamoPedia

Camopedia (Camouflage Encyclopedia) is the brainchild of Henrik Clausen and Eric H Larson. Our goal is to create an academically-supported resource and database referencing the major military and paramilitary camouflage patterns in usage throughout all time periods.

Although we shall do our best to cite references when appropriate, all text presented here remains our own and we take full responsibility for any errors or mistakes encountered. This website and all it contains is copyrighted 2010 -- All rights reserved.

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of fellow members of the International Camouflage Uniform Society (ICUS) for their photographic contributions and assistance in clarifying some data for these articles.

Original submissions, corrections and additional information are welcomed, although we cannot credit individual authors or submissions directly. We do respectfully ask that all data to be considered for inclusion on this site be appropriately documented, or references cited.

This site is presently under construction. Please bear with us as the site expands.

Should you have any comments please send a mail to icus@camouflagesociety.org

• ICUS - International Camouflage Uniform Society

• International Camouflage Pattern Index by Eric H. Larson

Countries

AFRICA

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• Algeria

• Angola

• Benin

• Botswana

• Burkina Faso

• Burundi

• Cameroon

• Cape Verde

• Chad

• Comoros

• Democratic Republic of Congo

• Republic of Congo

• Djibouti

• Egypt

• Equatorial Guinea

• Eritrea

• Ethiopia

• Gabon

• Gambia

• Ghana

• Guinea

• Guinea-Bissau

• Kenya

• Lesotho

• Liberia

• Libya

• Madagascar

• Malawi

• Mali

• Mauritania

• Mauritius

• Morocco

• Mozambique

• Namibia

• Niger

• Nigeria

• Rwanda

• Rhodesia

• Senegal

• Sierra Leone

• Somalia

• South Africa

• Sudan

• Swaziland

• Tanzania

• Togo

• Tunisia

• Uganda

• Zaire

• Zambia

• Zimbabwe

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ASIA

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• Afghanistan

• Armenia

• Azerbaijan

• Bahrain

• Bangladesh

• Brunei

• Burma

• Cambodia

• China

• Cyprus

• Georgia

• India

• Indonesia

• Iran

• Iraq

• Israel

• Japan

• Jordan

• Kazakhstan

• Kuwait

• Kyrgyzstan

• Laos

• Lebanon

• Malaysia

• Maldives

• Moldova

• Mongolia

• Nepal

• North Korea

• Oman

• Pakistan

• Philippines

• Qatar

• Saudi Arabia

• Singapore

• South Korea

• Sri Lanka

• Taiwan

• Tadjikistan

• Thailand

• Turkemenistan

• Turkey

• United Arab Emirates

• Uzbekistan

• Vietnam

• Yemen

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EUROPE

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• Albania

• Austria

• Belarus

• Belgium

• Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Bulgaria

• Croatia

• Czechoslovakia

• Czech Republic

• Denmark

• East Germany

• Estonia

• Finland

• France

• Germany - after 1945

• Germany (Third Reich)

• Greece

• Hungary

• Iceland

• Ireland

• Italy

• Latvia

• Lithuania

• Luxembourg

• Macedonia

• Netherlands

• Norway

• Poland

• Portugal

• Romania

• Serbia

• Slovakia

• Slovenia

• Spain

• Sweden

• Switzerland

• Ukraine

• United Kingdom

• Yugoslavia

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NORTH AMERICA

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• Canada

• USA

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CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN

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• Cuba

• Dominican Republic

• El Salvador

• Guatemala

• Haiti

• Honduras

• Jamaica

• Mexico

• Nicaragua

• Panama

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SOUTH AMERICA

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• Argentina

• Bolivia

• Brazil

• Chile

• Colombia

• Ecuador

• Guyana

• Paraguay

• Peru

• Uruguay

• Venezuela

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OCEANIA

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• Australia

• Fiji

• New Zealand

• Papua New Guinea

• Tonga

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"Families" of patterns

• Brushstroke - eg. British WW2 patterns

• Digital patterns (CADPAT, MARPAT etc.)

• DPM (British)

• Duck hunter

• Flecktarn

• Lizard - eg. French or Portuguese lizard patterns

• Puzzle - "jigsaw puzzle" patterns (Belgium, Yugoslavia etc.)

• Rain pattern - used by many Warsaw Pact Countries

• Splinter - German WW2 Wehrmacht, Bulgaria, Sweden etc.

• Tiger stripes - Vietnam War era pattern

• Woodland

Camouflage on military vehicles

Camouflage on military vehicles

Camouflage on military aircraft

Camouflage on military aircraft

Camouflage on naval vessels

Camouflage on naval vessels