Originally a unique color tone for all vehicles and devices of the army were defined:
RAL 6014 yellow olive. In order to improve the camouflage effect during the 70s new color tones and color combinations have been developed. Thereby the disguise especially against infrared night vision devices. The reflexion of camouflage has to conform to leafgreen in the IR-area. By this way the camouflage in the free terrain is optimized. This was achieved by camouflage painting. Since the 80s it is regulated that all vehicles and devices of the army have a camouflage painting.
The shade cards contains the L*a*b* data with measuring geometry and gloss data at 60° and at 85°.
The colors are named RAL-numbers and color cards in the card format of HR are designed:
Futher information can be found in the download area RAL F9 army colors.