Wüsten-Flecktarn (u. vielleicht KSK?)

[airbornelawyer]

A picture of the desert cammies and wearer with one of my all-time favorite weapons:

http://home.t-online.de/home/kh.ranitzsch/gallery/bilder/rl_wuestenfleck1.jpg

And another:

http://www.utrinqueparatus.de/zeugs/tropentarn_04.jpg

Dave

[Xdeth]

What a horrible weapon for desert ops. The SD was the most irratible with regards to functionality also.

[Joe Lippke]

Great pics, where did you find them? I don´t know exactly about the KSK using the MP-5SD, but the german Kampfschwimmer (Frogmen) use it for sure. Maybe it´s a Kampfschwimmer, I´ve heard that some of them went to Afghanistan to support the KSK.



JOE

[Joe Lippke]

Well, just checked the original source of the upper pic: Last modified on february 25th 2001, so certainly NOT a german operator in Afghanistan...



JOE

[airbornelawyer]

The first picture, and some others I've seen of Germans in the desert, are from a Bright Star exercise in 2001 in Egypt.

The second picture is a close-up of this one:
http://www.utrinqueparatus.de/zeugs/tropentarn_03.jpg

Here are a couple more from Bright Star:
http://www.utrinqueparatus.de/zeugs/bright_star_2001_04.jpg

http://www.utrinqueparatus.de/zeugs/bright_star_2001_09.jpg

http://www.utrinqueparatus.de/zeugs/bright_star_2001_15.jpg

And, with a French soldier and another favorite weapon of mine:
http://www.utrinqueparatus.de/zeugs/bright_star_2001_16.jpg

Dave

[Max Power]

That is some sweet looking camo pattern. So is the "woodland" Flecktarn, whatever its called.

[Joe Lippke]

Looks like a "I try your weapon and you try mine"-contest.
I wonder why there is no "commercial" version of the german desert-camo available in shops until now.



JOE

[airbornelawyer]

NBC Defense troops from the 10th Panzer Division participated earlier this year in an exercise in Kuwait with US Marines as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Herewith some pics (from the 10. Pz.Div. web site (http://www.10panzerdivision.de/)):
http://www.10panzerdivision.de/einsatz/kuwait/bilder/kuwait_34.jpg
http://www.10panzerdivision.de/einsatz/kuwait/bilder/kuwait_01.jpg
http://www.10panzerdivision.de/einsatz/kuwait/bilder/kuwait_08.jpg
http://www.10panzerdivision.de/einsatz/kuwait/bilder/kuwait_19.jpg

Dave

[Joe Lippke]

Dave, are you having a special relationship to germany?



JOE

[airbornelawyer]

I am having a special relationship with Germany...actually with a German girl, who lives in Mannheim. :)

Other than that, well... I am German-American, I spent some time in Germany while I was in the Army and I studied law at Rupprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg. I also have a few friends in the Bundeswehr, including the chief of staff of the DSO/KLK, who used to be the German liaison officer at Fort Benning.

I am going to Germany on Monday. I happened on some of these pictures while looking for some information on places and people to visit. A German equivalent to this forum - http://www.sondereinheiten.de/forum/index.php - had a discussion of the Wüsten-Flecktarn, which prompted me to start this thread.

mfG,
Dave

[Joe Lippke]

Have a nice trip!

A friend of mine that I met via SOCNET lives in Mannheim, unfortunately he doesn´t visit SOCNET very often, so you will likely not know him.



JOE

[Ryan94]

Hi,
im new here and i have the "Tropentarn" German BDU, an i love it! It´s better than 6-color BDU, better than 3-color BDU and it´´s a better quality than te american BDU, and its looks very nice...

cu David

[Big K-Mac]

Better in which way?

[VBK47]

Originally posted by Joe Lippke
Great pics, where did you find them? I don´t know exactly about the KSK using the MP-5SD, but the german Kampfschwimmer (Frogmen) use it for sure. Maybe it´s a Kampfschwimmer, I´ve heard that some of them went to Afghanistan to support the KSK.



JOE


KSK and KS do use the MP5SD.

Anyway the guy on the pic on top is a employee of a company selling Arktis equipment with the new german desert-camo-pattern holding an Airsoft MP5SD... ;) :rolleyes:


The guy below is not a German (he is using an M4) but som US Operator using Kraut cammies...

[Smoelf]

This dud is from Frømandskorpset. The Danish Navy SOF.

[Joe Lippke]

Proves?


JOE

[BM]

http://www.henrikc.dk/camouflage/comparison/flecktarndanishgerman.asp <-- comparison between the danish and the german camo.


-BM

[Smoelf]

The weapon he is carring is a C8 (M96) with a ACOG scoope, a Visible light, a AN/PEQ-2 and a RIS.
So far I know, the german special forces dont use C8


And is infact a danish uniform he is waering. Ther are no green colours on the german uniform, you can see ar little green on his left sleeve.:)


And at last, I have seen the whole serie of fotos;)

Best regard
Smølf

[BM]

Just not as much - look at the link i posted :)

have a link for those photo's smoelf?


-BM