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Woodland (literally a lazy area) -- a deformable military camouflage used by the United States military forces as standard camouflage for a new war-only (BDU) during 1981 to replace it in the second half of 2000th years. There was a scaled up and a slightly altered variant of ERDL camouflage used by the U.S. military since the Vietnam War -- four color high-contrast pattern from irregular green, brown, pine and black colors. It's also known as' M81 ', although this term was not officially used by American military.

Despite the fact that Woodland camouflage has long been not used by the major divisions of the U.S. military, it is still used at a limited level for one sub-section such as suit, equipment and MOPP residents, while some improved single-term (both army and commercial) with the Woodland camouflage camouflage, such as the United States Marine Commander.

History
The Woodland pattern is almost identical to the pattern of his predecessor -- the dark colored version of the "Hihland" American camouflage ERDL, which was widely used during the Vietnam War, and is different mainly in the way that his colored spots were made in more volume than the similar blobs of the ERDL camouflage. The Wooldland pattern was increased, and the shape of the beach itself changed a little bit to make them less correctly. The part of the beach from the previous pattern was removed from the WAdland pattern, because because of increasing size they no longer fit to the standard width of the red fabric. The pattern of the camouflage is not repeated horizontally across the width of the arm, and is only drawn vertically across the length of the arm. The pattern pattern was officially accepted in 1981.

Increasing the beach pattern was done to make the camouflage more effective across the distance, while avoiding the merging of spots into one path, when smaller colored areas merge into larger shapes. It also added a pattern of more contrast, which made it more clear at a distance that reduced the camouflage effect and, respectively, destroyed the risk of friendly fire. Cyclonic digital patterns (pixel) and Flecktarget camouflage solve this problem using different spots to allow the same effect regardless of the distance.

These changes represent the movement of the tactical focus of the United States armed forces from the war to an extremely close distance, such as South Vietnam, on a more remote level, for example in Europe.

In 2004, to replace M81 Woosdland camouflage (as well as the three-color desert DU camouflage) was represented by a new UCP camouflage that won when testing the MultiCam camouflage template. The UCP had to be a universal camouflage for forest, desert and city conditions, but in future military experience in Afghanistan