Camouflage uniforms were first used by the British army. 1864 65438+In February, British captain Harry Banat Ramstein organized an irregular army "British reconnaissance team" in Peshawar, Pakistan. When making uniforms for the reconnaissance team, Ramstein chose khaki uniforms in view of the characteristics of bare yellow land and heavy wind and sand, so as to disguise himself during reconnaissance. In later combat operations, this military uniform played a good camouflage effect. ?

Originated from the camouflage clothing of Scottish bird hunters, the prototype of camouflage clothing can be traced back to the "Geely clothing" in Scotland. Originally a camouflage tool used by hunters, it is said that it was invented by the hunter Ghillie, and it is mainly used to hide in the jungle and paralyze birds for hunting. The original Geely clothing is a coat decorated with many ropes and cloth strips, which has a good hiding effect in the dense vegetation environment and is difficult for even alert birds to find.

Geely clothing was popularized in World War II and renamed as "sniper clothing". Snipe is famous for its quick action and difficult hunting. People who are good at hunting this kind of bird are called snipers, and later they become proper terms for snipers.

Another way of saying it is that an entomologist named Shi Vanovic was inspired by the wings of butterflies and invented camouflage clothes. During World War II, the Germans surrounded Leningrad, and Schwarzenegger was also trapped. One day, he saw an injured butterfly resting on a branch. He carefully grabbed the butterfly from the tree and took it back to the barracks. He gave it medicine. Two days later, the butterfly gradually recovered and Schwanovich released it to nature.

Early the next morning, Schwarzenegger and his comrades-in-arms found that overnight, butterflies were flying in front of their homes, and their beautiful wings were dazzling in the sun. Schwanovich had a brainwave. If these butterflies were used to disguise military bases, wouldn't German planes find them? So, he came up with a way to paint the military base in three colors, yellow, red and green, and wear the military base into a big camouflage uniform.

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1899, British troops invaded South Africa and launched a three-year "Ying Bu War" with local Dutch descendant Buboer. The Boers have fewer troops and the British have more. The strength comparison between the two sides is about 1: 5. However, the Boers found that the British army wore red uniforms, which were particularly eye-catching and easily exposed in the green of forests and prairies in South Africa. Inspired by this, the Boer people immediately changed their clothes and guns into grass green, which was easy to hide in the dense grass forest.

This war made European countries realize the importance of personnel camouflage in the modern battlefield, and changed bright military uniforms into green or yellow one after another to achieve the purpose of concealment. After the First World War, the emergence of various optical reconnaissance equipment made it difficult for soldiers wearing monochrome military uniforms to adapt to the multi-color background environment.

1929, Italy developed the world's earliest camouflage clothes, with four colors of brown, yellow, green and yellow-brown; 1943, Germany equipped some soldiers with tricolor camouflage uniforms, which were covered with three patches with irregular shapes. On the one hand, these patches will distort the outline of the human body; On the other hand, the color of some patches is similar to the background color, and some patches are obviously different from the background color, so as to segment the human body shape from the visual effect, thus achieving the effect of camouflage deformation.

German camouflage uniforms have achieved good results in actual combat. Later, the armies of various countries followed suit and studied and improved the color of camouflage and the shape of patches. After 1960' s, the newly developed camouflage clothing is made of synthetic chemical fiber, which is not only superior to the original cotton material in preventing visible light reconnaissance, but also has a certain camouflage effect of preventing infrared light reconnaissance because of mixing special chemicals with colored dyes, which makes the infrared light reflection ability of camouflage clothing roughly similar to the surrounding scenery.

Now camouflage is not only used in soldiers' uniforms and helmets, but also widely used in various military equipment such as airplanes and military vehicles.

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Baidu encyclopedia: camouflage clothes