What is it?: A camouflage series of patterns designed by Hyde Definition for the purpose of the Army's new Family of Patterns contest. The Army realized UCP/ACUs are dumb and don't work anywhere (save Eastern Oregon) and going to a 3-pattern set, with uniforms in Temperate/Forest, Transitional (high desert AKA Afghanistan) and traditional desert, with the gear in the Transitional pattern, so it will work with all three uniforms.
It's in the running for the Army's FoP contest, which is completed, now just crunching numbers to see which works best.
Anywho, I bought a bunch of it. It arrived today.
here's some photos of it:
First off, here's the Transitional (Badlands) under a pair of Multicam pants. Basically same color scheme, with less of the white blotches:
Next up is a few different US Patterns. The Green Zone and Badlands are on the bottom in raw fabric, with BDUs (M81 woodland), ACUs (UCP) and OCP (Multicam) on top if it. What's astonishing is how the Green Zone is as bright in my pictures as it is on gear websites, such as soldier systems and strike hold. But in person, it has a lot of browns, and I think will look a lot browner to match a different background.
Here's the Pencott Green Zone up close. One of the selling points of Pencott is using only 4 colors, instead of 5, saving money on printing. They use what looks like MSPaint's sponge effect to give mid-colors between the layer and the base.
