BBC1′s “The ONE Show” on Wednesday, 17 March 2010 featured a segment at the end of the show about the British Army’s new Multi-Terrain Pattern camouflage clothing. Note: the clothing featured in the show were the prototype garments produced in the current Soldier 2000 style, not the style of clothing that will be issued to soldiers deploying soon to Afghanistan.The segment moved at a pretty quick pace, and featured that annoying “cheeky chappy” Phil Tuffnel as the presenter, so I’ve done a few screen grabs of the best bits that showed off the new pattern. This will spare you the hassle and agony of having to watch and re-watch the segment on BBC iPlayer. Here’s the link though in case you want to download the whole thing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rkg21/The_One_Show_17_03_2010(NOTE: the BBC iPlayer only works if you’re in the UK).
Soldiers demonstrate MTP in open grassy terrain.
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Close-up view of the pattern
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Comparison of MTP against Temperate-DPM and Desert-DPM in an arid urban setting
[/caption] There was also a nice segment in the piece about Roland Penrose, British camouflage pioneer in the Second World War.
Penrose was so keen on camouflage that he painted his car in a camouflage pattern as a publicity stunt.
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Penrose also wrote the first manual on camouflage for the British Army.
Thanks for the great write-up and screen shots Lawrence!~ Bryan
ahw damn, i can’t watch it, because i live outside from UK.”Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only, but all BBC iPlayer Radio programmes are available to you.”Can you upload this vid to youtube?Greetings from Germany!
Aw that sucks!!!Sorry – can’t upload it to YouTube either.
Note: that iPlayer link probably won’t work for you if you’re outside the UK.
I laughed when Tuffnel referred to it as “the Army’s new Terrain-Pattern Camouflage”!Did anyone else think the desert detection test was a fail? Just a man shaped silhouette against the sand.
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As expected, all the career civil servants and head shed “supporters” are coming out of the woodwork to congratulate themselves on what a great job they have done fielding this in such a short time.Before we start breaking out the tubular bandages and celebrate with a group thrash off, this whole thing needs to get put into perspective.Yes it’s a step forward for the soldier in the Dust Bowl, but the question needs to be asked, why did it take so long to field what is effectively a COTS solution? And don’t give me the bollocks about field testing and the science of camouflage.More than a few unsung heroes pushed hard for this for a long time only to be thwarted by government departments that knew better or were more interested in their personal positions than that of the lowly foot soldier.I hope that the folks that were truly working to better the equipment can take some pleasure that their hard work and sacrifice has paid off.Finally, it will be interesting to see just how many of the blokes on ops actually get the kit relative to the REMF’s that will be parading around and bigging it up.Stay safe guys and know that there are a few watching your 6.
Amen to that mate! But let’s also remember the bigger picture – all the while since the Afghan campaign kicked off, Brown was busy cutting defence spending. Gordo and Darling now increasingly look like Melchett and Darling in Blackadder Goes Forth – “I wanted to see how a war was run, so badly.”
Too right geezer. I have to wipe down the computer screen every morning after spitting mouthfuls of Special K after reading the lies and deceit that are spouted by the carpet crawlers of Whitehall.Yeah, it’ll give give the honest British Tommy comfort to know that Darlng, Brown and the whole government are behind them…so far behind in fact that Google Maps can’t measure it..!
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Hey lawrence, Thanx for the screenshots. Have you tried the FVD Plugin for firefox to download ? Would be great to have a chance to see the whole thing
Best Mike
Hi Mike – no I haven’t, becuase I kknow that it won’t work. The BBC iPlayer uses a proprietary application based on Adobe’s AIR platform that requires you to install an iPlayer plugin on your PC in order to download and view their videos. The BBC vids will only play on the iPlayer app – and there’s also a time limit on them (they are automatically deleted after a set number of days).So, I’m afraid that anyone from outside of the UK is just SOL.
Aye, got it.
Interesting system.BBC´s trying to secure it´s content it seems.Thanx for the detailed explanation.BestMike
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Some closer pics of issued MTP. Seems the MoD is about to issue the “PECOC” Molle PLCE as well.http://www.abload.de/img/a2868a35e0x5.jpghttp://www.abload.de/img/0814920es3jt.jpghttp://www.abload.de/img/dscf3702132k.jpghttp://www.abload.de/img/dscf3700f0mp.jpg
That Molle PLCE is made by a guy named “Boris” over at DIY Tactical. It’s not issue, it’s custom made.