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HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp. of Vancouver, Canada uses fractal patterns to create better military camouflage designs. Canada changed military camouflage standards by issuing their government-proprietary "pixelated" CADPAT uniforms as a result of a DND research program. Its improved performance in NATO exercises helped smooth the adoption of the related MARPAT for the US Marines and its ARPAT derivative for the US Army. See this Hyperstealth page, and this MARPAT-related USMC page, to understand some of the key principles behind these new designs.
Working with Lt. Col. Timothy R. O'Neill, Ph.D. (U.S. Army, Ret.), whose research work formed the basis of both CADPAT and MARPAT, Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp. has entered the digital camouflage field. In 2003, the firm was commissioned by King Abdullah II to create the advanced digital KA2 camouflage pattern for Jordan's Armed Forces, Police, Customs and Counter-Terrorism battalions.
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has since extended that research into other areas, and the company has been given permission to announce that after two years of R&D, digital camouflage patterns have proven themselves applicable to weapons, vehicles, helicopters, and even jet aircraft. They're even being tested on buildings. Better still, Hyperstealth claims that these digital patterns can be applied with little specialized training and no drawbacks over conventional camouflage.
What are the details? Is this a new frontier in military camouflage? In more aesthetic architecture and design that blends with the natural environment? Both? Defense Industry Daily has the answers...
Pretty nice camo, but I think they need to apply it to the missiles and drop tanks, too--those things stick out like sore thumbs in the photo.
Mocked-up photo - see the article.
Yes, they do stick out - and I'd say the contrast makes an effective implicit ad. As the article notes, there's no reason the same processes couldn't be performed with the tanks, missiles, etc.
Second heads-up... don't assume this pattern is the exact camouflage pattern, either. The DID article covers that, too.
Does the aircraft pattern have the USMC crest throughout.
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