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Old June 5th, 2006, 14:34   #24
Rizzo
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Germany
Another short comment on the Saegezahn-rumours. I don´t think that the German Army is thinking about any changes on camo patterns.

Here some facts on the so called "Saegezahn"-pattern:

In the mids of the 1970s the Bundeswehr did some research on finding a new camouflage pattern for the German Army. (G.A. was clothed in olive darb / field grey in that times like many other NATO countries.) There have been made several different patterns for internal field testing. One of this was the so called „Sägezahn“-pattern, at least one of those who didn´t make it against the Flecktarn-pattern, which was adopted as standard for the Kampfanzug-90 (Combat Dress 90) and is still used today.

I found an image of this pattern on the net, so you can see it for yourself. It shows one of those Shirts used for testing. In my personal opinion this shows quite well why it didn´t compete against the Flecktarn pattern.
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