This Swedish Camouflage is Making Ukrainian Vehicles Nearly Invisible
Together with the Swedish CV90 armored personnel carrier, Barracuda camo is giving Ukrainian units an edge.
The concept of camouflage has been around for, well… as long as animals and insects have, really.
Aristotle commented about the color-changing characteristics of an octopus, and later Charles Darwin had a thing or two to say about it.
In the West, military camo came into its own about the same time that long-range rifles made their debut.
But it wasn’t until the early 20th Century that camo became widely adopted across Europe and North America. A lot of camo advancements around this time were thanks to experiments by naturalist Abbott Thayer (dubbed the father of camouflage).
His 1909 book, Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, became essential reading for generals and strategists.
French academics also studied the effectiveness of camo in combat in the 1910s, and from then on it was game on — just in time for World War II.
Understanding that vision is the primary sense of orientation in humans, camo is designed to deceive the human eye by countershading, preventing casting shadows, or disruption of outlines.
