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Afghan National Army is transitioning to the HyperStealth Spec4ce Afghan Forest pattern

(Vancouver, B.C., February 15, 2010) The Afghanistan National Army (ANA) has selected the HyperStealth Afghan Spec4ce Forest pattern as their official pattern now being issued to ANA soldiers. 

While the Forest colors may seem an odd choice for Afghanistan, their was a great deal of research which went into the selection process:

A) The ANA operations consist of many night missions and they required a color scheme which would conceal them better than other desert, arid or multi environmental color schemes did during night-ops. The colors selected combined with the Spec4ce pattern makes the uniform virtually invisible at night, field testing showed an astonishing initial acquisition distance of less than 5 meters at night (far superior to other Multi, Arid and Desert and traditional Woodland colored uniforms). The uniform also uses the most advanced IR reduction coatings to provide an advantage over any night vision equipment used by the opposition.

B) The colors and pattern differs from those of the coalition forces (International Security Assistance Force - ISAF) - important for both the ANA (which are very well respected in Afghanistan) and the ISAF to be able to identify their own troops from the ANA soldiers during operations.

C) Darker colors have a greater psychological impact (based on numerous studies) providing a greater sense of authority and strength to both the user and the viewer than lighter colors do.

D) The previous pattern used by the ANA (older U.S. Army Woodland pattern) was easily attainable around the world (both as surplus and new uniforms) and was being acquired by their adversaries to infiltrate both the ANA and ISAF. Special passive anti-counterfeit items are placed into the new Spec4ce uniforms to both identify actual ANA uniforms and specific soldiers and allow recognition of imposters at long distances with advanced (undisclosed) technology. This specific requirement took HyperStealth months to develop but provides a new measure of security for both the ANA and ISAF.

Afghanistan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) has transitioned to the HyperStealth Spec4ce Afghan Sierra pattern

Over one million uniforms now use HyperStealth patterns.