Strichtarn

Strichtarn is the name for an imagined around 1960 camouflage pattern of the combat uniforms and personal equipment of various armies of the Warsaw Pact.

The Strichtarnmuster has been developed for use in all seasons in Central Europe from the new red color imprint 1931 ( splinter ) of the Reichswehr and was significantly cheaper to produce than the multicolored stained imprint colors previously used. This savings effect was one of the arguments, which accelerated the introduction. Visually, the Strichtarn seems very simple Zweifarbentarnmuster, which resumes the tradition of bright colors and imprint copies in its reduced form, pointing in one direction dashed lines. Since the bars and the background vary only slightly and partially merge with each other almost, going from this line structure as well as no additional camouflage effect from. So is the unofficial but commonly used NVA designation " A dash - no bar " to understand.

Strichtarn in different countries

Poland

In Poland, a Splittertarnmuster was introduced in 1956, the completely oriented in its overall appearance at the Reichswehr - chromatic colors printed in 1931. However, it was already retired around 1960 again. In this time appeared as a successor, the Polish Strichtarnmuster, of which there are several variants. Poland is considered the " inventor" of the Strichtarnmusters.

German Democratic Republic

The National People's Army (NVA ) and the Ministry of the Interior ( mDI ) a Camouflage was introduced in 1958, which had been derived directly from a Waffen SS template. The East German Flecktarn was produced until 1967 and slowly replaced by Strichtarnmuster under Polish model that had been introduced since 1965. Strichtarn was presented along with a new field suit in the NVA. The pattern takes a tradition of Splittertarns (actually " colored inks overprint" ) again and copied to radically simplified form of which facing in one direction dashed lines. The DDR Strichtarn there are several slightly varying versions.

South West Africa (now Namibia)

The Government of the German Democratic Republic, which supported the South West African SWAPO in its struggle against the racist government, also equipped contingents of the Liberation Army with Strichtarnuniformen. But the opponents of SWAPO, the South African Army ( SADF ), fitted several units with Strichtarn and put it on a small scale identical copies of the NVA uniform ago. The Strichtarnuniformen there are still applied.

Yugoslavia

The Strichtarnmuster was also supplied to other formations and later disappeared with the demise of the GDR and the dissolution of the NVA in 1989 from the general military use in Germany. Situated Purchased stocks were to be seen in Europe recently on a larger scale with mercenaries during the Yugoslav Wars (1991 to 1999).

South Africa

In South Africa, the Strichtarnmuster was still in use after 2003 in the army.