Multi-Cam

[Andrew March]

Showing my complete ignorance here, but is Multi-Cam worn by any military units/branches and which ones are they?

 

Links to pics would be nice so i could get a feel for 'the look'.

 

Cheers

[Cobbcore11]

Not at the moment, but every once in a while a pic turns up of a group training with multicam. Trust me multicam will be used very soon.

[Fre_D]

Multicam is currently only in use in the U.S. Army "Future Force Warrior" program.

[Samm]

Supposedly SAS in Afghanistan:

 

 

[Jaager]

Polish Grom use a copy of multicam. Apart from the odd picture its not really seen in real word situations, you will sometimes see a unit using say a multicam platecarrier in training, but mostly its just Airsoft use.....And GRAW obviously.

[c_a_r_t_e_r_3_5]

It's alright; if the Americans adopt it and then plan to invade us, they'll stick out like sore thumbs in the British woodland.

 

[TheMerchantOfVenice]

Who uses it? Airsofters

 

I see the U.S. Army adopting it within 20 years.

 

[Andrew March]

Thanks for the insight everyone, always good to know who's wearing what

[Gadge]

Who uses it? Airsofters

 

I see the U.S. Army adopting it within 20 years.

 

Nah in 20 years we'll be on chamelionic fibre optic camo that changes colour with your background.

 

I saw some wicked trial footage from Japan a few months back.

 

 

[boxmag]

You do get US SF using it in some places due to the fact they get to use whatever they want.

[Jagdraben]

Nah in 20 years we'll be on chamelionic fibre optic camo that changes colour with your background.

 

I saw some wicked trial footage from Japan a few months back.

 

No. That project will run horribly over budget with numerous delays until it finally reaches the point where the military has to break it up into incremental stages at which it will be adopted, with no intention of ever purchasing anything more advanced than the first stage (excepting the final intended product). On the eve of its adoption, a politician will raise a hissy-fit about the lack of a competitive bidding process, the military will find something that's horribly wrong with the project, but could be easily fixed, but kill the project anyway. A couple of years later, another politician will raise a fuss about the camouflage not being adopted, followed by full-on testing, in which the stage one camouflage is the hands-down winner. The military will then proclaim that it has no intention of replacing the current issue, while Delta Force is rumored the entire time to have adopted the camouflage as standard issue. Eventually, someone will post about it on Arnies, and a number of members will kvetch about the current kit being inferior, while others will say that the new kit offers little advantage over the new kit, despite costing the same as the old kit or less, and blast the first group for their apparent intellectual inferiority.

 

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[Sabachthani]

No. That project will run horribly over budget with numerous delays until it finally reaches the point where the military has to break it up into incremental stages at which it will be adopted, with no intention of ever purchasing anything more advanced than the first stage (excepting the final intended product). On the eve of its adoption, a politician will raise a hissy-fit about the lack of a competitive bidding process, the military will find something that's horribly wrong with the project, but could be easily fixed, but kill the project anyway. A couple of years later, another politician will raise a fuss about the camouflage not being adopted, followed by full-on testing, in which the stage one camouflage is the hands-down winner. The military will then proclaim that it has no intention of replacing the current issue, while Delta Force is rumored the entire time to have adopted the camouflage as standard issue. Eventually, someone will post about it on Arnies, and a number of members will kvetch about the current kit being inferior, while others will say that the new kit offers little advantage over the new kit, despite costing the same as the old kit or less, and blast the first group for their apparent intellectual inferiority.

 

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And eventually, we'll all take a page from Sir Solid Snake (yes, he was knighted. Did it so stealthily the Queen didn't even realize she had knighted him) and run around destroyed buildings and woodland areas in cardboard boxes.

 

It's a full freakin' circle, or something. Or some kind of...camouflaged U-turn.

[MinisterofDeath]

Multicam is currently worn by special units of the U.S. Boarder Patrol and is being issued to local U.S. Law Enforcement units around the country.

 

The U.S. Army Future Combat Systems demonstration unit also has a large amount of Multicam that they wear.

 

In Afghanistan various Private Military Corporations along with various U.S. anti-narcotics federal law enforcement there wear Multicam as well.

 

Poland also has adopted similiar pattern for their Special Forces.

 

It is known that the British Ministery of Defense has budgeted for and purchased a fair amount of stuff from Crye, but whether it was Multicam and for what purpose is unknown.

 

Rumors and pictures have shown up of what appears to be U.S. Special Forces wearing Crye Combat Uniforms in Iraq. However, no one can confirm that..

 

 

[G. Dunning]

who uses mutlicam? The US special forces dur, it was in transformers

[Andrew March]

I think it's safe to say special forces wear it then

[Gadge]

Although most decent special forces do their hardest not to advertise the job and blend in so you stil look better in a mix of civvie outdoors kit and issue kit....

 

 

 

[kliskey]

Although not strictly "The Military" but KAC utelizes all sorts of Crye stuff - The evidence is on the website.

[Filip von Izabelin]

Poland (GROM SF unit), designed their own camo based on Multicam. It's called Suez.

 

Lot's of SF units in Afghanistan wear OD trouser, or desert tri-color. And a mix of different tops, from OD to black pullover to desert.

[Misfit]

Can people please learn to not comment on something that they know nothing about?

 

It's been seen in use by US SF, and thanks to Samm for posting my photos of (unconfirmed) SAS in Afghanistan. A number of PSC companies and contractors also use it - Blackwater, for example, if I remember correctly, they placed a very large order.

 

Crye Precision themselves have even released a statement to the civillian market, due to the long delays etc, Crye are struggling to fulfil orders for the US Government to the kind of units and agencies that don't want to be publicly named or photographed.

 

 

Supposedly CAG (Delta) operators in Afghanistan, chatting to Marines.

 

//Note: The "please dont talk about stuff you know nothing about" is directed towards the members that simply replied "uhh no1", etc. Not to those who actually gave decent answers.

[Andrew March]

Cheers, interesting pics there.

[Capt. Miller]

US AFSOC uses multicam, just wait february issue of Combat & survival magazine, there it is fully covered

[DarkLite]

Some Taiwanese units use it too.

[tsuri]

Chad is using it too

 

Poland (GROM SF unit), designed their own camo based on Multicam. It's called Suez.

Design is a hard word for what either is a licensed copy or a total and complete ripoff which would activate Crye's vast army of lawyers.

 

See for reference.

[CerberusCO]

No. That project will run horribly over budget with numerous delays until it finally reaches the point where the military has to break it up into incremental stages at which it will be adopted, with no intention of ever purchasing anything more advanced than the first stage (excepting the final intended product). On the eve of its adoption, a politician will raise a hissy-fit about the lack of a competitive bidding process, the military will find something that's horribly wrong with the project, but could be easily fixed, but kill the project anyway. A couple of years later, another politician will raise a fuss about the camouflage not being adopted, followed by full-on testing, in which the stage one camouflage is the hands-down winner. The military will then proclaim that it has no intention of replacing the current issue, while Delta Force is rumored the entire time to have adopted the camouflage as standard issue. Eventually, someone will post about it on Arnies, and a number of members will kvetch about the current kit being inferior, while others will say that the new kit offers little advantage over the new kit, despite costing the same as the old kit or less, and blast the first group for their apparent intellectual inferiority.

 

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HK416 anyone?

 

Just to add to the list - US Dept. of Energy nuke convoy escorts.

[Crimson]

Unrealated but Navy seals use Crye products including the R6 and black Combat apparel, some report that multicam has been entertained by some individuals, Swat teams also use crye