effectiveness of ACU

[lewby]

http://www.funnycorner.net/funny-pic...camo-couch.jpg
i think this says it all really

[cracking day]

Re: effectiveness of ACU

Seriously?

[JOE90]

Re: effectiveness of ACU

Just the stealthiness ive been looking for.....all them sofas dotted around my local site!

[Magay]

Re: effectiveness of ACU

I was looking for that picture not too long ago "ACU the perfect camo for the Chairsofter..."

[RedHawk]

Re: effectiveness of ACU

ACU really is a poor camouflage. It was tested against other camouflages and out of the 4 tests it performed in (night, urban, desert and woodland I THINK) it only came first in the night test. Why it ever became the US Army's standard issue camo, I'll never know. Plus it's just a rip off of CADPAT (which is truely the kind of digital camo).

The only place where I've seen it be effective is in mountainous terrain with snow...

[Tiercel]

Re: effectiveness of ACU

1. This pic is as old as the internet itself
2. ACU actually works VERY well in dusky or dull & overcast (so average british weather then :P) woodland

[Machaon]

Re: effectiveness of ACU

ACU actually works VERY well in dusky or dull & overcast (so average british weather then :P) woodland

Except, I imagine, when the player is standing amidst lush flora and making a real din with his AEG on full auto.

[mack]

Re: effectiveness of ACU

ACU really is a poor camouflage. It was tested against other camouflages and out of the 4 tests it performed in (night, urban, desert and woodland I THINK) it only came first in the night test. Why it ever became the US Army's standard issue camo, I'll never know. Plus it's just a rip off of CADPAT (which is truely the kind of digital camo).

The only place where I've seen it be effective is in mountainous terrain with snow...

Wikipedia - Afghanistan geography
A landlocked mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. It has a continental climate with very harsh winters in the central highlands, the glaciated northeast (around Nuristan) and the Wakhan Corridor, where the average temperature in January is below −15 °C

Might have something to do with it lol

[lewby]

Re: effectiveness of ACU

its strange because every picture on the internet seems to be bias on way or the other
for example:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-IBzbM_Roe...u-mountain.jpg
or
http://soldiersystems.net/blog1/wp-c...sand_words.jpg

[Machaon]

Re: effectiveness of ACU

its strange because every picture on the internet seems to be bias on way or the other
for example:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-IBzbM_Roe...u-mountain.jpg
or
http://soldiersystems.net/blog1/wp-c...sand_words.jpg

The first pic is of an area where it's in use during an operation, and the second is, I think, a sniping competition. The guy in Multicam isn't exactly invisible in that environment either....

As Mack pointed out, and as the first picture shows, it's useful in the current theatre of operations - the mountainous regions of Afghanistan.

[blobface]

Re: effectiveness of ACU

its strange because every picture on the internet seems to be bias on way or the other
for example:

To be fair it's only bias if someone claims a certain camo is the bestest thing in the world and show you a picture of a dude hiding in a 5m x 5m canvas of that camo while wearing that camo. Both of those pictures are camo being tested in real environments, the usual conclusion is that they work best in certain environment, but not most, a woodland guille inside a concrete building would be much worse than ACU.

[RedHawk]

Re: effectiveness of ACU

Wikipedia - Afghanistan geography
A landlocked mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. It has a continental climate with very harsh winters in the central highlands, the glaciated northeast (around Nuristan) and the Wakhan Corridor, where the average temperature in January is below −15 °C

Might have something to do with it lol

Indeed, hence the fact i said "The only place where I've seen it be effective is in mountainous terrain with snow...". Don't need a geography lesson from Jimmy Wales. However, to generalise this pattern to the every unit in the US Armed Forces is incredibly stupid, as not every unit is in Afghanistan. There never will be one "Universal Camouflage Pattern".

/inb4multicamisepic

[voodooTheMarshmallow]

Re: effectiveness of ACU

Well as somebody who almost exclusively uses UCP and Tri Colour , not exactky the best for the Scottish Highlands and I find them to work relativly well . As long as you understand the main principles of concealment you can use UCP with great results .