by congofal » Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:04 am
No it is not a copy of Strichtarnmuster , between 1964 and 1966 , Czechoslovakia , East Germany and Poland developed very similar camouflage patterns based on the WWII German Sumpfmuster pattern.
Even tough the 3 patterns look similar to each other , they have their differences , for example the Czech pattern has an overprint of green spots and clumps ( you can see them good up close on my jacket) , the NVA pattern has long Brown "Rain" drops on the pattern that make the pattern seem to be solid from a distance and the Polish pattern has much thicker and shorter "Rain" drops in the pattern.
All 3 patterns look similar unless you know what you are looking at , so it can get tricky to identify the patterns.
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