Warships camouflaged with zig-zags, swooping curves and bright bursts of colour became a regular sight during World War One.

The Border Security Force (BSF) will soon get a makeover with a new digital camouflage pattern uniform for its jawans, officials have said. The digital patterns - significantly harder to replicate ...

The occupants of one of the German vehicles wore bucket hats, clothing with camouflage patterns and covered their faces with bandanas. A van belonging to Portugal's Maritime Police also arrived.

The occupants of one of the German vehicles wore bucket hats, clothing with camouflage patterns and bandanas covering their faces. A van belonging to Portugal's Maritime Police also arrived.

But if camo uniforms were common in the Pacific, ... many German units wore similar camouflage patterns, resulting in misidentification and unfortunate friendly fire incidents.

The occupants of one of the German vehicles wore bucket hats and clothing with camouflage patterns and covered their faces with bandanas. A van belonging to Portugal’s Maritime Police also arrived.

WWII Camouflage Showdown: Allied vs. German Patterns. Posted: May 8, 2025 | Last updated: May 8, 2025. Camouflage in World War 2 was the first time camouflage was used en masse by all sides.

HMT Olympic in dazzle camouflage after service as a troopship during World War I, 1919. Credit: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Pictures from History ...

Unlike traditional camouflage, which helps objects blend into their surroundings, dazzle camouflage used stark geometric patterns to try to confuse German U-boat captains’ perception of a ship ...

Traditional camouflage, designed to blend ships into the ocean, was ineffective. Instead, artists like Norman Wilkinson proposed using high-contrast patterns to disrupt the enemy’s ability to ...

In 1929 the Italian army developed its now-famous telo mimetico pattern — random blotches of forest and field colors, basically — for tents, and eventually someone had the bright idea to print the ...