| Hands down winner: The ghili suit.
The best camoflage is a combination of outline pattern breakup, shapes that are hard for the human eye to focus on, and natural foliage added to truly blend in with the surrounding environment.
The ghili suit is a typical BDU woodland pattern, but with slats sewn in. The sniper will place random bits of naturally-occuring foliage in the slats, rendering him almost invisible (depending on his ability for stealth, the direction of the sun, the shooting position, etc).
When I was helping out with sniper school in Germany, they had cloth that they sewed into the ghili suit, then they literally tied them to the back of a 5-ton and dragged them down a dirt road to tatter the strips. I was stunned at how effective that was. Those guys could be 15 feet in front of you, and as long as they didn't move, it was near impossible to see them.
So there's my vote. |