Night ops camo desert Jacket

[blacksheep]

Hello,

does anyone know where i can buy the night ops desert camo jacket.



Thanks for your work


Blacksheep

[zonk]

this is something i have always wondered about also, this seems like a pretty simple camo design. just wondering how effective it was/is

[Jarhead]

Have a look on ebay

[blacksheep]

Thanks i have found one on ebay.

[Rosa Jonas]

this is something i have always wondered about also, this seems like a pretty simple camo design. just wondering how effective it was/is

Principle is fairly easy, the grid is a sharp pattern to look at. You're eye is less likely to get a hold of something if it's easy to focus on, but it wont work over distances very well.

[Limeyfellow]

Thats the old style, that works well against 1st Generation Night Vision Googles. Technology has made it out of date, and it was sold off from the early 90s onwards.

Its been pretty much all surplused off nowadays, though its less common to find than say a couple of years ago where it was everywhere.

[T for Tetrapod]

http://www.omahas.com/catalog/produc...roducts_id=823

This site is well stocked if you ever are looking for anything else.

[Split-50]

Limey is correct... the early Soviet NVDs (gen I/II) image/light intensifiers used a mesh or grid style photoctahode. After a few years they caught up to western microchannel plates and cathodes that used coatings instead of mesh. This made the night camo parka and pants stand out like a fart in church.
I bought a parka, liner and pants for $20US in Kentucky back in 1993. That surplus dealer had a tractor trailer full of them. They are a little more expensive now i think.

[Waterman]

I've had good use out of my old (GW1) night camo over covers...they are great to hunt in......

[DanBarlow]

are there trousers made for this as well?

[T for Tetrapod]

There are trousers but they are kind of hard to find. They used to have a bunch of them at sportsmanguide, but I haven't seen any there for a while.

[Son of Damian]

I bought a parka, liner and pants for $20US in Kentucky back in 1993. That surplus dealer had a tractor trailer full of them. They are a little more expensive now i think.

I got a set about a year ago for $20, either the jacket or pants had a large rip though.

[15thMEU]

I've been working on a Wikipedia article about the pattern; not a whole lot of info out there though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Night_Camouflage

A boonie was also made in the pattern; they're very hard to come by. I saw a BDU-style jacket and pants set a little while back (made by Cal-Pacific Mfg.), but those may well be a commercial item as the NSN listed on both the jacket and the pants were for the six color desert pants.

[Split-50]

You know what... now that I think about it, wasn't there a reverse-able 3 color desert one side and grid night desert parka out there for a while???

[maple.leaf]

I had a set of those issued to me when I did peackeeping duty in the Sinai in 1986.

Sometime ago I read a story that some US soldiers actually put this theory of their effectiveness to the test during the 1992 Gulf War. They got hold of some Iraqi NVDs (Soviet Aid) and discovered that this grid-matching stuff was a load of crap. They said that guys wearing these night parkas were actually MORE visible through the NVDs than if they were wearing day desert uniforms.

I wish I could remember where I saw that...