Not every camouflage pattern makes it into the field. This one made it everywhere else.
Around 1990, Czechoslovakia developed písečná bouře — “sandstorm” — a five-colour desert splatter of reddish-brown, pale orange, light pink, and pale green on a sandy base. AGRECO was never officially adopted by the Czech Armed Forces, but throughout the 1990s it circulated widely through export channels — turning up on irregular forces, militia, and in some of the more striking photographs of the era: Al-Gaddafi’s female guards, wearing the pattern. One of the most visually distinctive camouflage designs ever produced.
