Phase IV Blu-ray (1974): Starring Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport and Lynne Frederick. Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray. Email or Phone: Password: Forgot account? See more of Phase IV by logging into Facebook. Message this Page, learn about upcoming events and more. Phase IV C3: Camouflage, Color and Cost. This is Part 5. Phase IV C3. Camouflage, Color and Cost. Camouflage Improvement Explained. Part 2. Scorpion Camouflage. Part 3: Why Not. Just Use MARPAT? Part 4: Why. US4. CES? Army Phase IV Baseline. Patterns, will the Army have to settle with these? Special. Addition: Night Vision Device (Gen- III) comparison. US4. CES and some of the U. S. Army Phase IV camouflage patterns(Vancouver, B. C. June 2. 7, 2. 01. In. January 2. 01. U. S. Government pattern were announced. U. S. Army’s Phase IV Camouflage Improvement. Effort. The winner was expected to be announced on June 1. U. S. The. Requirement: Current U. S. Army UCP. (Universal Camouflage Pattern) U. S. Army OCP (Multicam) and Sniper in. Ghillie Suit (1)The U. S. Army Phase IV effort. Woodland/Jungle, Arid/Desert. Transitional (between Woodland and Desert) and an option for a OCIE/PPE pattern. Gear, Vests, Heavy Nylon bags) if. Why didn't the Army. June 1. 4th? The Army has postponed announcing the winner of their Phase IV Camouflage. Improvement Effort as they await a new requirement from the U. S. Government. which will require all branches to share the same camouflage in combat (it. Congress and is awaiting the Senate vote). If it passes, a. house subcommittee will then decide how many camouflage patterns are. Woodland and Desert) or three (adding a Transitional. Army has determined that three are required as a. Phase IV may become the standard, or even the Phase IV. Woodland/Desert family if only 2 patterns are determined. There are many. other alternatives to this but each will cost more money and time or leave. Army with substandard protection. Phase IV was the largest most extensive camouflage study in the world, to. U. S. Army with the best camouflage uniforms in the world. Worldwide Clinical Trials has expertise in phase 4 (IV) clinical trials and research. The latest Tweets from PHASE IV (@PHASEIV). Leading health & fitness company designing exercise and nutrition strategies to transform your physiology. 1544 20th St, Santa Monica, CA. PAREXEL's PACE Group has significant experience in the implementation and management of Phase IV trials. Could they scrap the whole program? On June 4, the House Armed Services Committee narrowly agreed. October 2. 01. 8, putting an end. Iraq and Afghanistan. The measure provides exceptions for special operations. The measure was part of the. House Friday. If it. Congress will look to a subcommittee chaired by Rep. Rob. Wittman, R- Westmoreland, to help settle the matter. His mission: get. Military to justify all expenditures, the. The USMC. has two patterns, the Navy has three, the Air Force has one, the Army. BDU (woodland) and DCU. Army ready to announce another three or four to replace. Congress, the Senate and the media. To have all the branches move to a. Further Phase IV. Announcement Delays. While I understand the. Army has also. indicated their Phase IV announcement could be delayed until October 2. If this is due to current budget issues with the Defense Department. The Army's Phase III. UCP (Universal. Camouflage Pattern) in Afghanistan, in 2. Multicam won. Phase III and would be called OCP (Operation Enduring Freedom Camouflage. Pattern) but it would only be issued to Army soldiers deploying to. Afghanistan, UCP would still be used by the Army outside of Afghanistan. The. U. S Air Force also found their ABU (Airman Battle Uniform) Camouflage was. Afghanistan switched to OCP. The U. S. Government pays a. OCP (Multicam) . It is not my place to say what that figure is but I can. Phase IV announcement is delayed, the royalty cost. OCP to the Army (and Air Force) could negate any financial benefit to the. U. S. Prior to OCP the. Army had developed their own camouflage patterns internally, so they never. The Army had come to the. For Phase IV the Army had. OCP (Multicam) while. Afghanistan, did not place in the top 1. Woodland or. Desert environments, and that there were many areas of the world like. Afghanistan where Woodland or Desert patterns we not as effective as a. So the new minimum combat requirement became three. The Army decided to request. The four finalists (who had no idea what the others had. Brookwood to over $6. Kryptex, BROOKWOOD COMPANIES INCORPORATED $8. ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY (ADS) INC. Government to allow them. Government use. So the Army gets the best. License (for the. The Army did put their best. Government. withdrew their camouflage submissions from the competition. Where does the company. While countries like Canada. CADPAT camouflage uniforms. U. S. Government? Let's look at what the. Australian Government paid for their version of Multicam. Essentially Multicam with a few subtle. Cream and Dark Brown Slugs. However, the cost to the British for the Exclusive. License and ownership from Crye is confidential and has yet to be revealed. The answer to the question. U. S. As well as the SWIR (Short. Wave Infrared) on the newer NVD's. For reasons of security I. SWIR, but two items are important in the NIR. SWIR: Material/Color Reflectance as it relates to the environmental. NIR and. SWIR to allow disruption (concealment) to continue as far down the spectrum as possible. In Part 3 I showed that MARPAT was also. NIR spectrum. Now we will look at the. Phase IV program in the NIR. There is a reason why you. U. S. Military. patterns and their function within the NIR, the simple answer is because. The tradeoff for a good visual pattern was to. NIR reflection levels or make a pattern that works well in the. NIR such as UCP (Universal Camouflage Pattern) and sacrifice the visual. There is a way to accomplish both. Military prior to 2. BDU (woodland) and DCU (desert). NIR spectrum. The photo below in the NIR. Brown and Green. colors have merged into the same reflectance, the Light Green is only. Black is. very Black. The chart below are the Reflectance. Dark Green and Brown have the same value. Below is where NATO expects green reflectance. DPM. camouflage, so the BDU Dark Green/Brown colors are 1. My camera. works in the 8. NIR, similar to most most NVD's. So I. brought up the specifications supplied to industry when providing material. Spectral reflectance. I converted the table to take the average between the. About a 1. 6% separation. Pale Green and Olive Brown so we only perceive 2 different colors at. NIR photo. In the photo below I've put. OCP Jacket (it is not just the hat that reflects this way) and UCP (Universal Camouflage. Pattern) a pattern that is ineffective in the day time actually does better. NIR than MARPAT Woodland, and OCP. The UCP still has all three color. The reflectance values and. UCP match what the photo shows above, it does. US4. CES Transitional has. Afghanistan. Did you know that the Afghanistan National Army (ANA). Night combat. At the time of camouflage. ANA was most involved in Night Missions and coalition forces. Day Missions. There was also a need to keep the ANA distinct. Ghostex Kilo- 1 which was designed for Day and Night. Operations(1. 5)This is the. Hyperstealth/ADS Inc. Military patterns are less effective at. ANA patterns. Even the Elite ANCOP. Afghanistan National Civil Order Police) required an effective day. NIR protection. You can see even the ANCOP. NIR protection than OCP and UCPThere is also another way. NIR with a pattern, spectrometer. Notice below with the OCP (Multicam) how the Pale Green (Pgrn 5. Visual Spectrum, yet this color becomes the darkest after 8. If I was able to show you. Multicam converge into. Now this is a better. NIR showing our US4. CES. OCIE (Gear and Vest coloration) and what I can't show you is the 2. SWIR spectrum) Below is a photo of US4. CES. Arid uniform with US4. CES OCIE coloration on the vest, (The US4. CES OCIE is. colored to work with all three environments as this type of gear is to. This color separation. US4. CES OCIE. allows for disruption and concealment all the way into and through the SWIR. Special Forces, but expected to become. For Woodland CADPAT TW (Temperate Woodland) is. As you can see MARPAT Woodland is much brighter than CADPAT TW and both US4. CES Woodland and Transitional have a similar. For Arid/Desert we look again to CADPAT AR (Arid Regions) as the Canadian's determined these colors would. Visual and NIRWith Arid/Desert we knew. NIR and more room to improve which is why we. We looked to the research with the DCU colors in the NIR and found the. CADPAT AR allowed for. The Black lines indicate. Minimum and Maximum Requirements. Each of the three colors is brighter than. Maximum Requirement (Top black line of Lt Tan. Lightest color in US4. CES Arid. Crye has not released any. ADS Inc. As Multicam is the. U. S. Army baseline pattern for Transitional, I've included it in these. We can. also test and compare the Kryptek NIR reflection levels. Kryptek Mandrake is their. Woodland submission Kryptek. Mandrake has very. NIR (Below)Another good. NIR color reflectance is British DPM (Shown Below), as. US4. CES Woodland is very close to DPMNotice below in the. Mandrake pattern that the. Darkest color which creates much of the disruption in the visual spectrum. Brown/Red color is now the. NIR. Their. Transitional pattern is Kryptek Highlander In the NIR. Kryptek Highlander is slightly darker than Multicam but is still lacking contrast to separate the colors. US4. CES Transitional does within this frequency of the NIR. Kryptek Nomad. is their Arid/Desert Submission. With MARPAT Desert, being beaten by AOR1. Desert environments to become the baseline, and DCU being even better in the visual spectrum, the. Kryptek Nomad is much darker than the three other desert patterns here. The. overall NIR reflection level of Kryptek Nomad lacks the contrast of CADPAT AR and. US4. CES Arid. Here below is an outdoor shot of both the. Kryptek Mandrake and Kryptek Highlander patterns. Below - US4. CES Family. Front and Kryptek Family at back in Near. Infrared photo below. An outdoor shot against a Rhododendron bush. One large area of concern with camouflage is Urban. The asphalt and concrete may be brighter in the visual spectrum. NIR spectrum. If your camouflage is. NIR then it is going to shine. Urban environments. Conclusion. The U. S. Senate. has now stepped in and changed a few items the House had asked for (2. The committee notes that the recommended. Additionally, after the date of enactment of this Act. Secretary of Defense determines that unique circumstances or. Army Phase IV Baseline. Patterns, will the Army have to settle with these?
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