DPM Difference

[mikec62001]

Is there any difference between British Desert DPM and New Zealand Camouflage Patterns?

They look very very similar to me?

Thanks in advance

M

[Dispatcher]

Thats just you, they are completly different.

[Limeyfellow]

The main differences are an increase in yellow tan colours in the design.

[Lerch]

The patterns are the same, but the colors are a bit more 'tropical' on the NZ version.

[ICUS]

Is there any difference between British Desert DPM and New Zealand Camouflage Patterns?

They look very very similar to me?

Thanks in advance

M

Depends on what version of NZ DPM you are talking about. There are at least 8 different colour variations of DPM camouflage that have been issued by the NZ Defense Forces since the 1980s. Certainly the original drawings were influenced by British DPM, but if memory serves me each NZ variant contrasts in some way from the British patterns.

As for British DPM, there have been well over a dozen different colour variations issued over the years, so it would be difficult to answer the question without a couple of specific examples referenced in comparison to each other. Suffice to say, there is tremendous variety in colour, style, and fabric just within the subject of DPM camouflage itself.

[2/1kiwi]

sorry about the small pic, Brit DPM smock, rest Kiwi DPM.

[Ubar]

Did everyone who relpied so far miss the word 'Desert' in the original post?

[theholeinthedonut]

Did everyone who relpied so far miss the word 'Desert' in the original post?

No but the difference inbetween the Desert DPM and Kiwi DPM are......huge.... so!

[2/1kiwi]

haha lol, heres our "desert dpm" dont have a brit one to compare it to thou,
hope it helps;:)

[Lerch]

The desert uniforms themselves differ (the NZ is a bit more like the British teabags), while the pattern and colors currently are almost the same.

[ICUS]

Did everyone who relpied so far miss the word 'Desert' in the original post?

My mistake. Yes, I am afraid I did miss that. However, my answer would effectively remain the same, but with different numbers. The UK has produced at least four different types of "desert" DPM camouflage, and NZ has as least two colour variants based on the same drawings. I believe the NZ pattern is based on the British dense two-colour pattern schematic, which is still currently used, but I think the 2 Kiwi versions incorporate slightly different colours. Of course, the design of the uniform, fabrics used, buttons, and other features have always been completely different on NZ uniforms.

[mikec62001]

QUOTE - Wikipedia

The New Zealand disruptive pattern material, also known as the New Zealand DPM, is the official camouflage uniform used by the New Zealand Armed Forces. It features a mix of greens and yellows, and is similar in many aspects to the British Disruptive Pattern Material and in the 70's to the American Army

Link: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_disruptive_pattern_material

[miguelencanarias]

My mistake. Yes, I am afraid I did miss that. However, my answer would effectively remain the same, but with different numbers. The UK has produced at least four different types of "desert" DPM camouflage, and NZ has as least two colour variants based on the same drawings. I believe the NZ pattern is based on the British dense two-colour pattern schematic, which is still currently used, but I think the 2 Kiwi versions incorporate slightly different colours. Of course, the design of the uniform, fabrics used, buttons, and other features have always been completely different on NZ uniforms.

Hi ICUS. I only remember three different types of desert DPM: the original 'SAS pattern' (the one sold to Iraq), the Gulf War I and the current one (basically the same than the previous, with slight differences in colour). Which one am I missing?

[bluffcove]

Briefly there were dots around the edge of the coloured patches to brek up the outline of each individual colour patch. But its not the new stuff I think it went out with the rip-stop Smocks (which were also a lighter colour)

[ICUS]

Hi ICUS. I only remember three different types of desert DPM: the original 'SAS pattern' (the one sold to Iraq), the Gulf War I and the current one (basically the same than the previous, with slight differences in colour). Which one am I missing?

Hi Miguel - here is how I would categorize them: the original pattern (a four-colour desert DPM) which, as you wrote, was originally sold to Iraq, then copied by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, and a host of others. Then, GW1 which was a two-colour pattern with dense dispersion of the disruptive shapes. Following this, a "sparse" two-colour (the disruptive shapes are larger, but more sparsely dispersed). And now the recent era, which again is more densely dispersed, but with different colours (and there are several types of uniform issued in this pattern - the 94 pattern, the S95, et al). Technically, I guess the 2nd (dense) pattern is the same as the current one if they are laid side-by-side and the shapes directly compared to each other, but I usually differentiate them because they were produced at different times and the styles of uniform changed.

Cheers!

[hammerlock]

Any chance someone can post more NZ pics? The one's seen make it hard to compare the two.

[2/1kiwi]

2 closest i could find
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