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MultiCam®
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The Basics about MultiCam™
MultiCam™ is a single camouflage pattern designed to help the wearer hide
in varied environments, seasons, elevations, and light conditions.
It was designed to address the real-world need for concealment in different
environments, with one basic kit of gear. While there are many great
location-specific patterns. MultiCam™ is designed to work well across a very
broad range of environmental conditions when observed in both the visual and
near Infra Red (night vision) spectrums.
How it works
TAKES ON THE SHADES OF THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT
The pattern is designed to reflect some of the surrounding colors of the environment.
It takes on an overall green appearance when under a green forest canopy and an overall
tan look when in the open desert. By adapting to varying local lighting conditions,
the pattern blends well in many environments, elevations, seasons, weather conditions,
and times of the day.
DISGUISES VOLUME AND SHAPE
The design takes advantage of the way the human eye/brain perceives shape,
volume and color. Since only a very small portion of the human eye perceives color,
the brain does a lot of “filling-in” for the eye. MultiCam’s® unique design takes advantage
of this principle and helps the observer to “see” the pattern as part of the background.
This helps the wearer's profile begin to loose its edge and fade into whatever color or
shape surrounds him. It works on the principle that an observer can see something but
still not recognize it as anything to be interested in.
BALANCED SCALE AND CONTRAST
The scale and contrast of the pattern elements are designed to work well when observed
from both distant and close ranges. We all know the idea is to break-up or disguise the
human form, but without a ghillie suit or a rock to get behind, this is typically done
with heavy contrast between large elements of a pattern. However, high contrast, large
element patterns stop working in open terrain (e.g. "chocolate chip" in open desert.)
They also tend to stop working as the observer gets closer to the camouflage,
since the large pattern elements end up being out of scale with the highly detailed
surroundings of the observer. MultiCam® relies more on a blending effect than a
contrast effect to disguise the wearer. This effect allows it to perform in a wide
range of environments, and keeps the pattern effective even at close distances
where pixilated or “blocky” patterns often stand out against natural (non-blocky) environments.
How it was developed
The MultiCam® pattern was developed as an experiment to determine whether a
single camouflage pattern could be effective in limiting the visual and near-IR
signature of a person across a wider range of environments and seasons.
Soon after American forces first deployed to Afghanistan, a problem with the camouflage
patterns used by the US Armed Forces became immediately apparent. Watching the daily
footage of US Forces in the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq wearing
Desert BDUs and Woodland gear and remembering that the same problem had shown up 10
years earlier in the first Gulf war, CRYE Precision decided good camouflage for where you
were might
be better than perfect camouflage for somewhere else.
CRYE Precision spent a lot of time looking at how camouflage works in nature. They considered where it
was hardest to hide and studied which terrain/environmental elements were common to as
many environments as possible. They studied how light affects environmental elements.
They also tracked the seasonal and elevation changes that affect any one region and
tried to factor all this together to make a highly adaptive and effective pattern.
They then started putting their findings to the test by creating a digital composite of
their observations. They spent a lot of time talking with users, going over their approach
with them, factoring in their observations and concerns about everything from getting
rid of black to launderability. They then went back to the computer and created a composite
digital image with over 100 layers, trying to match their basic idea for how they thought it could work.
Once they had something they liked, they started prototyping it and testing it. They tested it for over a
year and a half with the US Army and found it to be more effective than they had originally thought possible.
After two consecutive tests by the US Army, where it came in top out of all candidates,
they tuned it for production and have what is now called MultiCam®
Why does it Cost more
At CORETAC SOLUTIONS all our products are made from
1000 Denier Cordura®.
It's great for packs and pouches and other applications where heavy wear is the norm.
This material is urethane coated on the back for water repellency.
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Police Marksmanship Challenge
2009-2011
Proud “Recruit” sponsor of the Canadian Forces
Small Arms Competitions Awards Program
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CORETAC SOLUTIONS INC.
P.O. Box 48081
Dundas Sheppard
Mississauga, Ontario
Canada
L5A 1W0
(647) 204-7209
Email: info@coretacsolutions.com
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