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Known Items

One piece Sniper/Scout Oversuit, LBV

Notes

The Bulgarian Spot pattern was reportedly used only by Border Guards, but evidence shows at least some use by airborne forces. Once an ultra rare uniform, recently a small batch of unissued sets were made available to the collector's market.

The interesting thing to note about this pattern is its similarity to the original dark on light Czechoslovakian Oblaky pattern. In fact, I found one small area on a Czech hood that matched up nearly identically with a spot on a Bulgarian oversuit. However, general similarites appear to be the norm rather than direct copies. Unlike the Czechs, the Bulgarians chose to keep the colors strongly contrasting instead of the weak to invisible look of the Czech pattern.

The Bulgarians also made oversuits in East German Rain style camouflage. This means both 1960s pattern oversuits were in fact based on other Warsaw Pact patterns, not their own domestic ones.

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