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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 a comprehensive, accurate, and academically-supported database referencing all of the major military and paramilitary camouflage patterns that have been used throughout all time periods. We hope this will prove a useful reference for historians, intelligence agencies, military personnel, collectors, artists & designers, airsoft enthusiasts, military modellers & others with an interest in camouflage design, development, and history.

Primary sources for the information presented here include: data from official publications or nomenclature, photographs, physical specimens (with provenance), published material, and unpublished material from academic or military sources that can be verified. 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. Except in instances where we have used photographs in the public domain, this website and all it contains is copyrighted 2010 -- All rights reserved.

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of fellow collectors, historians, military personnel, and published authors - including members of the International Camouflage Uniform Society (ICUS) - for their support, contributions and assistance in clarifying data for these articles.

Original submissions, corrections and additional information are welcomed, although we are not able to credit individual submissions unless they considerably expand upon the information already presented here. We nevertheless encourage anyone with clear photographic examples of any patterns not represented (or those reprsented only by photographs borrowed from the public domain) to submit them so we may add to and improve the site. Any data to be considered for inclusion on this site should be appropriately documented, or references cited.

Should you have any comments please send email to: icus@camouflagesociety.org

• ICUS - International Camouflage Uniform Society

• International Camouflage Pattern Index by Eric H. Larson

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COUNTRIES

AFRICA

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• Algeria

• Angola

• Benin

• Biafra

• Botswana

• Burkina Faso

• Burundi

• Cameroon

• Cape Verde

• Central African Republic

• Chad

• Comoros

• Democratic Republic of Congo

• Republic of Congo

• Côte d'Ivoire

• Djibouti

• Egypt

• Equatorial Guinea

• Eritrea

• Ethiopia

• Gabon

• Gambia

• Ghana

• Guinea

• Guinea-Bissau

• Katanga

• Kenya

• Lesotho

• Liberia

• Libya

• Madagascar

• Malawi

• Mali

• Mauritania

• Mauritius

• Morocco

• Mozambique

• Namibia

• Niger

• Nigeria

• Rwanda

• Rhodesia

• Senegal

• Sierra Leone

• Somalia

• South Africa

• South Africa - Bophuthatswana

• South Africa - Ciskei

• South Africa - Gazankulu

• South Africa - Ka Ngwane

• South Africa - Kwa Ndebele

• South Africa - Kwa Zulu

• South Africa - Lebowa

• South Africa - Qwa Qwa

• South Africa - Transkei

• South Africa - Venda

• South West 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 (Myanmar)

• Cambodia

• China

• Cyprus

• Georgia

• India

• Indonesia

• Iran

• Iraq

• Israel

• Japan

• Jordan

• Kazakhstan

• Kurdistan

• Kuwait

• Kyrgyzstan

• Laos

• Lebanon

• Malaysia

• Maldives

• Mongolia

• Nepal

• North Korea

• Oman

• Pakistan

• Palestine

• Philippines

• Republic of Vietnam

• Qatar

• Saudi Arabia

• Singapore

• South Korea

• Sri Lanka

• Syria

• Taiwan (Republic of China)

• Tajikistan

• Thailand

• Turkmenistan

• Turkey

• United Arab Emirates

• Uzbekistan

• Vietnam

• Yemen Arab Republic

• Yemen (Democratic Republic)

• 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

• Kosovo

• Latvia

• Lithuania

• Luxembourg

• Macedonia

• Malta

• Moldova

• Montenegro

• Netherlands

• Norway

• Poland

• Portugal

• Romania

• Russia

• Serbia

• Serbian Krajina

• Slovakia

• Slovenia

• Spain

• Srpska Republic

• Sweden

• Switzerland

• Ukraine

• United Kingdom

• USSR (Soviet Union)

• Yugoslavia

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NORTH AMERICA

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• Canada

• USA (United States)

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CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN

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• Antigua and Barbuda

• Bahamas

• Barbados

• Costa Rica

• Cuba

• Dominican Republic

• El Salvador

• Guatemala

• Haiti

• Honduras

• Jamaica

• Mexico

• Nicaragua

• Panama

• Puerto Rico

• Saint Kitts and Nevis

• Trinidad and Tobago

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SOUTH AMERICA

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• Argentina

• Bolivia

• Brazil

• Chile

• Colombia

• Ecuador

• Guyana

• Paraguay

• Peru

• Suriname

• 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 - British WW2 pattern derivatives

• Chocolate Chip - US six-color desert and its derivatives

• Digital patterns (CADPAT, MARPAT etc.)

• DPM (British) - Disruptive Pattern Material

• Duck hunter - US M1942 spot pattern derivatives

• Flecktarn - the German flecktarnmuster and its derivatives

• Leaf - US M1948 ERDL derivatives

• Lizard - French or Portuguese pattern derivatives

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

• Rain - used by many Warsaw Pact Countries

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

• Tiger stripe - Vietnam War era pattern

• Woodland - US M1981 derivatives

Camouflage on military vehicles

Camouflage on military vehicles

Camouflage on military aircraft

Camouflage on military aircraft

Camouflage on naval vessels

Camouflage on naval vessels

Camouflage in movies

Camouflage in movies

Fakes and reproductions

Fakes and reproductions

Commercial camouflage patterns

Commercial camouflage patterns

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