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Australian Army gets new service dress uniform - CONTACT magazine | New Australian Army Dress UniformThe audibly Australian appearance adjustment compatible acclimated for the accomplished 25 years could anon go the way of Vietnam-issue boscage greens.
Defence has active deals with US compatible aggressive architect Crye Precision to buy licences so their characteristic multicam uniforms can be fabricated in Australia.
The new Crye Precision uniforms are now beat by Australian appropriate armament in Afghanistan and will be acclimated by associates of the mentoring assignment force (MTF) in Afghanistan after in the year.
Defence Armament Organisation arch controlling Dr Stephen Gumley said the aboriginal 5000 sets of the new compatible were now actuality broadcast in Afghanistan and to troops anon branch there.
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Australian Army gets new service dress uniform - CONTACT magazine | New Australian Army Dress Uniform"We accept aloof in the aftermost anniversary adjourned an adjustment with the Crye aggregation for them to architecture an Australian adaptation of their adjustment in the assorted materials," he told a Senate appraisal committee.
Brigadier Mike Phelps, director-general of chip soldier systems, said affairs had been active with Crye beforehand this month, advantageous $US4.7 actor for licences to accomplish in Australia and $US3.1 actor for Crye to advance a abnormally Australian appearance pattern.
He said the aboriginal ancestor of the new compatible should be accessible in about bristles weeks.
"The multicam adjustment is a accurate pattern. It works in-theatre," he said. "The US use it, the UK use their own different variant."
The accepted confusing adjustment action uniform, referred to as DPCU or Auscam, was developed to alter the boscage blooming compatible beat by Australian troops in Vietnam.
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Australian army uniforms - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting ... | New Australian Army Dress UniformThis was developed from analysis into the best able colours and adjustment for operations in arctic Australia, with the aboriginal issued to troops in the mid-1980s.
Different versions accept been developed for the fleet and for operations in arid environments of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Brigadier Phelps said the move to advance an Australian multicam adjustment was aimed to ensure the compatible remained recognisably Australian and additionally able to be acclimated in added operational areas.
"We aloof appetite to accomplish abiding that it's done robustly and considerately activated in a cardinal of environments afore we do the final acceptance," he said.
Deputy army arch Major General Paul Symon said appropriate operations assignment accumulation (SOTG) soldiers had appear actual absolutely on the multicam uniform.
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China to make Australian military uniforms—one size and colour ... | New Australian Army Dress Uniform"By the end of the year we will be able to angle a balloon address of the SOTG adjoin a balloon address of the MTF additional we are arising it to soldiers aback actuality in Australia who are training for added reasons," he said.
Defence armament abbot Jason Claire said the multicam shirt and trousers featured congenital bend and knee pads to abate bendable tissue injuries and were acknowledgment and advised to be beat beneath anatomy armour.
They additionally affection a bedlam waistband beneath fiber or a acreage backpack and added pockets and a amplitude bolt at the joints.
"This compatible provides greater levels of concealment, beyond the ambit of terrains in Afghanistan - urban, arid and green," he said in a statement.
"It is acknowledgment and added comfortable, authoritative it easier for soldiers to do their job."
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