Some news sources are calling this the Army’s “new” new camouflage pattern – well guess what, it was actually developed more than 10 years ago, it was the precursor to MultiCam, it was not pursued further originally becuase it didn’t out-perform other patterns by a substantial enough margin, and it was in fact dropped from the Phase IV trials becuase it looked too much like MultiCam….
Read the full story, and history, at Soldier Systems Daily:
http://soldiersystems.net/2014/05/23/us-army-selects-scorpion-camouflage-pattern/