Description: This is original standard issue, Summer British desert combat jacket. It was made in Britain and is not a cheap Chinese copy or other imitation. I have a number of these. They are brand new. Never used even once. It is size medium, chest 40 or couple inches more. Fits a person 5'7" or so. It does have both zipper and buttons front. This was standard issued to British infantry in Afghanistan and is still in use. Desert DPM was developed by the British Ministry of Defense in the early 1980s. The American military had just began issuing Six-Color Desert ("Choccy Chip") to troops in the Sinai and other arid environments. And so the British MOD to began work on Desert DPM. They recolored Woodland DPM using four shades of brown and tan. This version became widely used by Saddam's Iraq, among other smaller nations. The four-color pattern wasn't immediately issued to British troops as there were none deployed to desert environments at the time. Potential problems with friendly fire and enemy misidentification during deployments to the Middle East and Asia due to the wide use of four-color DDPM created the need for a three-color variant. This tricolor DDPM became the pattern issued to British troops throughout the Gulf and Afghanistan Wars until its replacement by the MultiCam variant MTP (Multi-Terrain Pattern).
Price: 25 USD
Location: Austin, Texas
End Time: 2024-08-27T23:43:32.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Original/Reproduction: Original
Theme: Militaria
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
