Flecktarn

Flecktarn

The Flecktarn pattern is originally developed by Germany and was selected during Truppenversuch 76 in 1976, but it wasn't until 1991 it was issued to German soldiers.

Colour distribution in the standard Flecktarn and the desert Flecktarn:

Flecktarn	Desert Flecktarn	Percentage
Black	Green	13.3
Dark Green	Tan	41.2
Brown	Brown	17.5
Light green	Tan	8.9
Grey green	Tan	19.1

The Flecktarn pattern has been adopted by a number of other countries beside Germany - Denmark was the first to first test the T/78 in 1978 and later introduce the M/84. The number of colours in the pattern has been reduced from 5 to 3 colours in the Danish pattern:

• Comparision of the German and Danish versions of the Flecktarn pattern

• Comparison of the Danish desert pattern and the German Wüstentarn (desert pattern) to the right

Belgium used the original Flecktarn colouration for the Air Force Commandos (air field protection units), Denmark uses its own colouration - so does China (the Tibet Flecktarn), Poland uses/used an urban colouration.

Originally Flecktarn might have been developed by Marquardt and Schultz in cooperation with the French company Texunion

Flecktarn is often misspelled Flectarn or Flecktar - the word means "spot pattern".

I have no evidence that the pattern is based on the German WW2 pattern "pea pattern" (Erbsenmuster)