TAZ 90 is the camouflage

Military camouflage

Military camouflage is one of many means of deceiving an enemy. In practice, it is the application of colour and materials to battledress and military equipment to conceal them from visual observation. The French slang word camouflage came into common English usage during World War I when the...

 patterns for current standard issue Battle dress uniform

Battle Dress Uniform

The Battle Dress Uniform were the fatigues that the armed forces of the United States used as their standard uniform for combat situations from September 1981 to April 2005. Since then, it has been replaced in every branch of the U.S. military. Only the U.S. Navy currently authorizes wear of the...

 of the Swiss Armed Forces. The 4 colour pattern consists of tan, brown, green and black and is a development of the TAZ 57 and TAZ 83 (the "Alpenflage

Alpenflage

Alpenflage is the commercial/collector name applied to Swiss TAZ 83 military surplus camouflage clothing which came on to the Army Surplus market in the 1990s...

") patterns which it replaced in the early 1990s. Even so, the pattern is based on the alpenflage, but with the deletion of the white spots and the red colour found in the alpenflage, along with minor changes. It is believed that the TAZ 90 was adopted to comply with NATO camouflage standards.

External links

• http://www.kamouflage.net/camouflage/00072.php