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Flora camouflage | |
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Type | Military camouflage pattern |
Place of origin | Russian Federation |
Service history | |
In service | 1998-? |
Used by | Russian Armed Forces |
Wars |
Second Chechen War Russo-Georgian War War in Donbas |
Flora ( Russian: Флора, sometimes erroneously called VSR-98) is a military camouflage pattern formerly used by the Russian Armed Forces. It was adopted in 1998 and was replaced in service in 2009 by EMR camouflage.
"Flora" came as a replacement for the “Barvikha” camouflage - the name of the R&D program, but there was no official name, so popular nicknames like "vertikalka" ( vertical), "berezka" ( birch), VSR-93 and so on appeared. [1]
"Flora" was adopted into the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 1998. The pattern is optimised for an environment typical of central Russia and is effective at silhouette dissolution. [2] Because of the characteristic stripes, "Flora" was nicknamed "Arbuznyj" ( watermelony; арбузный) camouflage. It is also known by the erroneous designation VSR-98, which stands for Vooruzhennyye sily Rossii or Russian Armed Forces 1998. This name came from the book "Camouflage Uniforms of the Soviet Union and Russia: 1937-Present" by Dennis Desmond.[ citation needed]
Developed in the late 1990s, it has some similarities with the Soviet " Butan" camo, "Barvikha" and the American "Tiger".
The overall color scheme can vary widely depending on the fabric used by the manufacturer. [3]
"Flora" consists of the green Flora pattern and the Mountain Flora pattern, which has dark yellow, sand or khaki color. [4]