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Did The People's Liberation Army Just Adopt The Multicam Pattern?

Dom

Combat & Survival has this interesting story about the PLA soldiers wearing something similar to the Multicam Pattern two days ago. This sighting was during the "Military Parade Marking the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War" which is their celebration of the defeat of Japan in World World II. For the meantime, they call it the Chinacam, since there is not much information on this type of pattern:

"On the combat uniform side a significant number of troops were wearing the new MultiCam-like camouflage pattern - ChinaCam seems like a sensible name for it until we learn its official designation - but close inspection reveals that although it appears to use broadly the same colour pallette as MultiCam (and UK MTP) the actual pattern is distinctly different with more 'jellybean' and 'twiglet' elements."

Indeed on a closer look, there is nothing that denotes it is a uniquely designed camouflage pattern and it is very similar to the Multicam pattern which is adopted by the U.S. and allied armed forces around the world. This observation was not lost to a Chinese netizen who posted about the "American Style #Multicam Suits":

A posting on YouTube also shows the portion of these PLA units who are either mounted or dismounted wearing which the YouTube user, Zerwoo Lee, calls as the "PLA Multi Environment Camouflage":

There is really nothing unusual about the PLA using camo patterns based on designs adopted by militaries around the countries throughout the years. Usually, they draw their camo design inspiration from German, British and American camo patterns, sometimes producing poor copies or very close copies.

As to what China PLA military unit is using the "PLA Multi Environment Camouflage” remains to be discovered as Chinese Military observers have not mentioned about this save for the Camopedia.com where they mentioned that some PLA units were reportedly have adopted the Multicam Pattern. Many units of the PLA use different sets of camo patterns.

Will Crye Precision demand royalties from the PLA for using its Multicam pattern? I doubt it will be able to do demand such given the rampant disregard of intellectual properties by Chinese companies. Even the Chinese defense companies are known for blatantly copying designs made by defense companies in the USA and Europe and getting away with it.

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