AUSCAM: Australian Camouflage PatternAUSCAM is the camouflage pattern used by the Australian military. Also known as Ozcam, it uses 5 colours and was developed during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It’s proper name is Disruptive Pattern Camouflage Uniform or DPCU, but it is most commonly referred to as Auscam. The first test uniforms were issued in 1983, and after a number of changes the final version version was produced in 1986. Although influenced by the US Jungle patterns, development was largely based on aerial photography to choose the colours and pattern most suited to Australian terrain.
It has a greenish, sand coloured background with random spots of light brown, reddy brown, dark green and medium green.
It is suitable for areas of arid bushland through to tropical jungle, as found all over Australia. The standard DPCU works in areas from arid bushland through to tropical jungle all over Australia. A Desert DPCU (or Desert Auscam) was developed during the late 1990s and was first used in Afghanistan in2002. It was found to be too light and was redesigned with darker colours.
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