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>Their uniform IIRC is based off a late war SS uniform design,
Leibermuster. Not SS, but universal. I have no idea why they chose red. The usual explanation is that it's supposed to fuck with IR night vision but the Richardson Report doesn't mention it and instead talks about how Tarnolive dye was supposed to do that instead. Other explainations:
>red and green as primary colors wouldn't blend in as much at great distances, breaking up silhouettes better
>the red is supposed to look like brown at a certain distance
>the red is for autumn/fall/urban environments (seen all three)
>the Leibermuster we know is just an autumn variant and a green one for summer/spring was planned but not even prototyped
all in all it's a very interesting camo pattern and probably the ancestor of ERDL and therefore M81