The blue version was so notorious in the militar-enthusiasts community in China it basically became a meme until China finally got around to changing the marines' camo lmao
if you want a completeoly useless fashion statement camo uniform check out the Royal Australian Airforce new camo uniform (from around early 2014), basically take multicam and make it blue, and then have a read of the stupid reason they selected it www.airforce.gov.au/about-us/your-air-force/brand/air-force-general-purpose-uniform, because why have 1 uniform they can wear everywhere like the army when you can have a stupid looking one to wear for general duties and then be issued a proper cammo when on deployment. I live close to the largest RAAF base in Australia and can confirm the uniform looks even stupider in person than it does in the pics and even moree stupid when in close proximity to the armys camo uniforms
@@somerandomalbinodude The GPU actually looks extremely stylish. It´s supposed to be recognizable and identifiable. That´s the point. It´s not a combat uniform.
I had a good laugh at this, but the designer of the camo actually explained why they chose that scheme. 1st. The PLA Marines at that point of time, due to various factors, were tasked with night assaults mainly. That colour scheme was found to be the most effective at camouflaging against NVDs. 2nd. When day breaks or if the assault occurs during the day, then camo is really pointless when everyone is already fighting in rather close range or even urban CQC itself. By that point of time, the blue camo serves as a built in IFF for friendlies providing support. Remember, PLAM is mostly for Taiwan and really, when Chinese are fighting Chinese, in the midst of battle we all really do look the same.
@@biggusballuz5405 I hear you, but it's difficult to shake the feeling that this was just a supreme fashion statement from a powerful general bent on unit recognition, rather than any other consideration, and that the designer is just trying to save the general's face after the fact. I'm not sure the PLA Marines are too happy wearing what basically amounts to a "shoot me, I'm here!" neon sign in a tactical situation.
@Ryan Chao Take a look at all the different variants of patterns the russians use many of them invented by them and many other variations or copies from other countries throughout all the many branches of police, army, Navy etc
Really quite fascinating to hear about the politicking going on with each branch want to get some special version. I was in the US Marine Corps when we switched from the woodland pattern to the digital utilities in early 2003. Shortly there after, every other branch of the American Armed Forces decided they too had to have their OWN camouflage. Just like in the PRC do USN and USAF both had to have blue digital uniforms. Madness.
The blue uniform thing has always bugged the hell out of me, it's not just pointless (I mean really you're on a ship it doesn't matter to the missile what camo you wear it's gonna blow a hole in the ship) but it's also counterproductive and dangerous because it just makes a sailor blend in when they fall overboard or have to abandon ship. Why the fuck would you want to blend into the ocean? It's not even like you'll be safe if the enemy decides to violate the law of war and kill survivors because everybody has thermal optics on their ships these days. Absolute madness, just pointless peacocking. If they insist on being different and easily identifiable they should just go with a neutral single tone design and embrace the fact they don't need camo, would look a lot better and cost a hell of a lot less.
Because China copies what "prestige" countries do. And when those nations realize it's dumb and move on, the CCP, being a economy of pull, just double down and screw themselves over. Because Status Civilization.
If you saw them get them quick, I think they might be harder to find in the future, China just banned selling military camouflage not sure the how the impact will be thought
There 2 more branches of Chinese armed forces you didn't mention in the video. Although classified as a paramilitary forces, the Chinese People's Armed Police Force(PAP) is also a important military force in China in fact. The other one is established in 2016, PLA Joint Services Logistics Force. the PLAJSLF use the same uniforms of other branches of PLA, the PAP has two unique pattern of Type 07 Camouflage, but they are being phased out.
The PLA marines are nicknamed "the Smurfs" due to the blue camo. Recently the Marines are planning to switch camos to blend in better. Damn I felt old.
18:50 Thank for that. A few weeks ago i saw a documentary show about Colombia, and the ELN Guerrillas wore that pattern. And I was wondering how these guys got there hands on Type 07 uniforms.
Colombian camo is insanely effective. At first they guarded the uniforms closely but of course it was just a matter of time until the guerrillas had them.
@@AbelTorrestheportaltardis101 Still, they're doing it illegally, right? The FARC may be no more, but if I remember correctly, when the new digital pattern was released, it was heavily controlled to avoid it finding its way to the guerrillas (which was wishful thinking at best). I remember when I visited your very beautiful country, that I was told not to bring camo pants as they would get me in serious trouble with law enforcement and the military (that was back in the late 90s, in the Cartagena - Santa Marta area).
@@miguelencanarias yeah, mostly due to paramilitary groups and whatnot in the moutains of antioquia. Colombia indeed is a beautiful country, but sadly, like many of our sister latin american countries, we are plagued with violence.
Try covering Singaporean jungle patterns. They were heavily inspired by the US Vietnam War uniforms early on but kinda branched off and did their own thing.
DPM variants (non-British ones) would be a great video topic, it's amazing just how many there are out there. Maybe a video for commonwealth and non commonwealth variants each lol.
True at least with UPC if you rolled around in the dirt enough it wasn't as bad (supposedly), but no amount of rolling in the dirt is going to make those blue patterns blend in anywhere.
@@Its_shiki_time4876 That's probably why UCP was so universally admired and loved by the troops. I'm fucking with you, I know the theory about grey but nobody can deny that the UCP version stuck out like a sore thumb against almost any terrain you could find.
@@Its_shiki_time4876 I've never seen any camo with grey working. I've tested the universal/woodland 07 camo in woodland areas, the grey portions stuck out badly, otherwise it was pretty disruptive.
During early 1990s, there is a US prototype camo called Vertical Tiger stripe ERDL. The Vertical Tiger stripe ERDL was evaluated by Taiwan(ROC) and our Malaysian military. Later on, both nations use that as a basis to develop their own Tigerstripe pattern. The result was Harimau Belang and ROC Marine Tigerstripe Pattern. These two were replaced by new digital camos around 2014. Fun fact, both Taiwan(ROC) and Malaysia are the first Asian countries to test bullpup rifles way back in the 1970s.
For those who are wondering what they replaced the type 07 oceanic with, they showed off a new soild blue tracksuit uniform with orange pockets and belt rope, as for the marines they don’t wear that camo anymore, they wear multiple uniforms and will wear what’s appropriate for wear they are located
I will say I have heard of some legitimate benefits of having a mostly blue camouflage for urban patterns since most buildings today are covered in glass. That said, even the camouflages that did include a lot of blue (British tank camouflages from I believe the 90s) still included a healthy amount of gray and blue.
The British vehicles in West Berlin in the 1980's had various shades of grey and blue-grey, painted in angular blocks. The FV-432 and the Ferret scout car and others were painted in this camouflage pattern.
The ocean pattern, also known as "smurf camo" within and out of China. That being said, you can tell why the latest pattern series debuted in 2019 is a welcoming sight.
Very accurate，professional，comprehensive video. It must take you lots of efforts to do so much deep researches for this video. Really good job. Keep moving!
I was in Haiti back in 2012 and saw some of the Chinese UN detachment and they were wearing the PLARF version of the Type 07 but the brown was more purple.
I think they have gone a long way since that crazy phase in the 90s and early 2000s, when you could identify a group of soldiers in a photo as Russians because none of them had the same uniform and equipment.
@@miguelencanarias I'd say so but to this day it feels like I'm seeing pics of Russians in shit like Izlom/Leto/various digital patterns/etc. I know mainline forces have mostly standardized to digiflora with some flora holdovers but there's a lot of variation in other areas, it seems.
Because they went through multiple camo patterns in the 90's that are still floating around and because the various Spetznas units all buy their own commercial gear, usually in Multicam, A-Tacs FG, SS-leto or "Spectre". Same with the Wagner mercs. The regular army is mostly using the various Digiflora patterns by now tho. The blue and red-black patterns you sometimes see are used by police and emergency services, respectively.
Talking of Russian camo, I would love to see how they went over the obvious moral objections when shamelessly copying a German SS pattern to come up with the Partizan camo. Not that it is ineffective, mind you (much to the contrary) but it is hard to imagine the designer not feeling a bit uneasy when presenting the results.
@@miguelencanarias Pretty sure it was developed by a private company, SSO. Also was never adopted by the army, just bought by some special forces units.
For those who are really wondering about the marine camo, the designer of the camo actually explained why they chose that scheme. The interview is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SBnwoNVSf5o.html 1st. The PLA Marines at that point of time, due to various factors, were tasked with night assaults mainly. That colour scheme was found to be the most effective at camouflaging against NVDs. 2nd. When day breaks or if the assault occurs during the day, then camo is really pointless when everyone is already fighting in rather close range or even urban CQC itself. By that point of time, the blue camo serves as a built in IFF for friendlies providing support. Remember, PLAM is mostly for Taiwan and really, when Chinese are fighting Chinese, in the midst of battle, we all really do look the same.
Try doing the Indian Military , Paramilitary and CAPF camouflage patterns. It's so damn complicated, we stopped talking about it. It is standardised to a degree but the order version are still used.
Hunter camos are also issued to recon units in the division. At least that is the case when I was in the service, but we never use it during the training. It is more like a badge thingy, show off you are in recon unit.
19:08 this guy maneuvers behind tall grass where Atleast two of his buddies are in his field of fire. He then begins firing in the direction of his friends and is obscured by said tall grass
My feeling is 90% of the camo patterns job is to identify the wearer and help with morale. When a camo matches the background it can be very effective but it is rare that a soldier would need it and the chance of a issue camo matching the terrain a long shot. SF units can pick patterns for a specific mission.
This video is great! I learned a lot, I barely knew anything about this shit before seeing the video. It’s a shame that this channel doesn’t get more views
Ya ain’t done Telo Mimetico yet? Ain’t that like the first standard-issue camo pattern? Might be worthwhile to cover the pattern and the Folgore “samurai” vest like you covered the US assault vest and British parachute denison.
Quality video. Thanks for sharing. Well made. It Will be great to have the same for Colombian uniforms, we do have three different camouflages with a great history behind each one. Glad to provide any support.
Check out this video, the Chinese UCP pattern is actually pretty effective and definitely more effective than the US Army one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BMgfKS53H08.html
Indonesian here. I didn't know that Brimob is using Type 07 camo. Usually Brimob only use solid colour uniform either black or gray BDU. But they have their own standard camo, that is a vertical tiger stripe. Only used for dealing with terrorist or separatist group hiding in the jungle. I think they used Type 07 for a brief period, before they settled on vertical tiger stripe. FYI Brimob is a unique force. They serve as a SWAT type unit and at the same also involved in combat, something you don't see very often in western world. Brimob saw a lot of action in 1975 during Operation Seroja aka Indonesian invasion of East Timor.
I've seen the marine combat uniform that is much more effective and less bright and visible than the version seen in many marine exercises and also worn by marines and crew members on board naval ships. A good example is a photo of several ZBD-05 IFV in snow conditions in Northern China, the camouflage is several shades of blue greys and it hides the vehicles very well. The reason why the PLA has so many uniforms is that the country is the 3rd largest by physical area (after Russia and Canada and slightly bigger than the US) so the types of terrain and weather conditions varies from sub Arctic to sub tropical, semi desert, grasslands and agricultural land, forests, desert, hills and mountains and valleys etc. Plus the PLA Ground Forces, PLA Navy, PLA Airforce, PLA Regular Reserves, PLA Militia Reserves, and the Strategic Rocket Forces, the PAPF Armed Police, the CCG Coastguard, the MSA marine safety administration, and other military, defence and security and paramilitary forces.
Correct me if I'm wrong but digital camo isn't inherently better, it is just an easy way to achieve both macro and micro effectiveness. The classic US military woodland is good at distance but loses effectiveness at close range (inside 50 meters), good at macro but not micro. Multicam, Kryptek, and most digital camos are able to achieve both by having details (like pixelation) that break up the shape of the pattern at close range making it more effective at close range but also large chunks that still help to break up the wearers shape at ranges where the details are not visible.
Pls do DPM, DDPM, MTP, and some of the in-between experimental camos later. I can't believe DPM, one of the most common camos alongside Woodland, has never been made a video of in this channel.
The 50-style military uniform was modified on a uniform coarse cloth (the new China was just established at that time, and the economic conditions of the whole China were not good). The 55-style military uniform was very Soviet (in the China-Soviet Union friendship period, and the economy has recovered to some extent), The 65 style is the most classic. The 85 style is a product of the transition period. The 87 style is very handsome. The 97 style and the 99 style are mainly prepared for the return of Hong Kong and Macau. As for the 07 style, the Chinese military service is currently in service. . .（I am a military fan from China）
