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Originally Posted by ToughOmbres
By the time of the Twilight War had the Flecktarn completely been fielded in the Bundeswehr? I always imagined the Territorial Heer having a mix of camo until supplies ran out and remaining troops using their old moleskin grey/gray uniforms that were so ubiquitous well into the late 1980's. What say the group?
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That's a good question. The issue is even further complicated if one uses the v1.0 timeline. The Bundeswehr would be absorbing a bunch of former DDR troops (whilst other East German military forces will be fighting
against the West Germans/NATO). That means that the Bundeswehr is not only going to have to kit out its own, rapidly expanding organic forces (regular army, territorial, mobilized reserves, etc.), it's going to have to kit out tens, maybe hundreds of thousands former DDR troops as well. Will the Bundeswehr try to outfit them in Bundeswehr fatigues, or allow them to continue to wear their DDR uniforms?
In my T2kU, Bundeswehr regulars wear Flecktarn. Reservists and conscripts mostly wear the old, 1957 pattern
Olivfarben (Olive green) combat unis. I think the Bundeswehr would try to kit out former DDR troops in either of those uniforms ASAP, but some might have to retain their DDR kit longer until manufacturing supply catches up to demand. That's going to create IFF issues between Unionist and Loyalist German forces. It's also interesting to note that both Polish and Czech forces used their own version of the East German "Raindrop" pattern camo.
The attached photo shows troops from some former Soviet republic kitted out in East German combat fatigues. It's pretty T2k, IMHO.