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Re:Army Camouflage That Failed to Hide Its Soldiers by arethuza on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:08PM (#19789198)
You do get what are effectively very large inkjet printers that can print patterns on materials - might be easier to "print" custom camouflage for a particular environment?
Re:Army Camouflage That Failed to Hide Its Soldiers by all2 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:17PM (#19789280)
Repaint / reprint when deployment orders are received? How durable is the print, though? The current paint used on most vehicles is incredible stuff. You can't even mar it with a super-high pressure water cannon.

As for uniforms; I'm not sure any military regular with clout would be willing to do something as practical as custom uniforms based on deployment environment. Too much change, too much innovation.

Re:Army Camouflage That Failed to Hide Its Soldiers by arethuza on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:24PM (#19789349)
Well, I wasn't being entirely serious - but did visit a place where they were printing cloth for use in furniture so it looked pretty heavyweight material.
Re:Army Camouflage That Failed to Hide Its Soldiers by rtkwe on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:17PM (#19789281)
That's way too custom to work for the current army supply and would require a different uniform for a single soldier as they get assigned and moved to different missions. The whole point of the new camo was to be relatively generic so a soldier could be issued one and keep it and also to issue everyone the same pattern.