The French army will be getting New, Disruptive Pattern, Fireproof uniforms in 2024 (Eng. Version).

The Army will have a new camouflage for its combat uniforms from 2024. It is the BME for multi-environment camouflage. Designed by the Army Technical Section in partnership with the Army Commissariat, the BME is intended to replace the two main camouflages currently in use: the Central European camouflage and the desert camouflage. This new camouflage is designed to be consistent in terms of both capability and tactics. Unlike the old camouflage, which had a panel of 3-4 colors in broken shapes, this one will be “multi-environment“, i.e., it includes 6 colors of mixed broken shapes. These colors respond to a principle of fusion, attenuated by gradients, with branches and discrete geometric forms. Initial design work began within the Army in March 2016. The developed graphic was benchmarked against a panel of contemporary bariolages. Operational performance and aesthetics were selected as the central criteria. The BME combat uniform will start to be distributed to