The TAZ 83 is a

military camouflage Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by an armed force to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. In practice, this means applying colour and materials to military equipment of all kinds, including vehicles, ...

pattern used by the

Swiss Army The Swiss Armed Forces (german: Schweizer Armee, french: Armée suisse, it, Esercito svizzero, rm, Armada svizra; ) operates on land and in the air, serving as the primary armed forces of Switzerland. Under the country's militia system, re ...

for the ''Kampfanzug 57/70'' (combat dress 57/70) and the ''TAZ 83'' (''Tarnanzug'', camouflage dress 83). It also is known as " Alpenflage" or "pizza camouflage" among collectors of

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as military surplus camouflage clothing it came on to the

army surplus Military surplus are goods, usually matériel, that are sold or otherwise disposed of when held in excess or are no longer needed by the military. Entrepreneurs often buy these goods and resell them at surplus stores. Usually the goods sold by t ...

market in the 1990s. Swiss Militärblachen with the TAZ 83 pattern are still in use in the

along with Militärblachen with a green camo pattern (not the same pattern as the

TAZ 90 The TAZ 90 (TarnAnZug in German and TASS 90 in French) is the camouflage patterns for current standard issue battledress and service dress uniform of the Swiss Armed Forces. History The TAZ 90 was issued to the Swiss military in 1993 after the TAZ ...

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The pattern is based on an experimental all-terrain pattern that saw limited service in

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's Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht called

Leibermuster Leibermuster is a German military camouflage pattern first used in 1945. It was the last of a family of German World War II camouflage patterns. The pattern (named after the brothers Leiber, its creators) was issued on a very limited basis to com ...

. The Kampfanzug 57/70 was issued from 1957 to 1993 (after 1970 with a textile daypack) and the lighter TAZ 83 with different pattern from 1983 to 1993 for non-combat troops before both were replaced by the

Pattern

The Kampfanzug 57/70 is a six-colour camouflage pattern consisting of a tan-coloured background with random white flecks with light green body, overprinted with green, red/reddish brown and black leaf shapes. The choice of red and green would at first glance seem to make this pattern very bright for something intended to conceal, but it works well for

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(fighting in built-up areas) environments and alpine terrain. Swiss soldiers have referred to it as "Vierfrucht-Pyjama", which translates loosely as 'four-fruit pyjamas'.

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* Some acquired by

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