Multi-Terrain Pattern

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British Multi-Terrain Pattern, also known as MTP

Multi-Terrain Pattern will replace the traditional four colour woodland uniform known as DPM in the British Army

In December 2009 the Ministry of Defence announced that the UK Armed Forces will be issued with combat clothing in a new camouflage optimised for operations in Afghanistan and across a wide range of environments.

• It will be issued to all personnel deploying on Op HERRICK from [[March 2010 then issued more widely to the UK Armed Forces from 2011.
• This is the first time the Armed Forces have changed to a new camouflage pattern in 40 years, operational effectiveness being the driver for change.
• The camouflage is a multi-terrain pattern that, following extensive scientific trials, performs consistently well across a wide range of environments encountered both on current operations and worldwide. MTP provides the best possible camouflage

A wide range of camouflage colours were trialled in UK, Cyprus, Kenya and Afghanistan by Infantry Trials and Development Unit (ITDU) with Dstl support. The trials consisted of Defence Clothing Team and Dstl generated camouflages compared with in-service and commercially available camouflages. The trials included visual comparisons, objective assessments of the time to detect the different camouflages against different backgrounds, and subjective user opinions on the efficacy of the performance. Crye’s Multicam® technology was found to be the best performing across the widest range of environments by a significant margin and was selected as the new UK Camouflage, based upon the UK DPM pattern. The new camouflage is to be known as Multi-Terrain Pattern (MTP).

See also

• Military uniform
• Battledress
• Camouflage
• List of camouflage patterns
• Personal Load Carrying Equipment

External links

• example.com