Dutch camo uniforms, newer versions from around 2008 onwards

michelwijnand wrote:Recently this has been an interest of mine, and I've collected quite a lot of it already, so I thought I'd make a thread about the more
modern Dutch uniforms, like the smocks and combat shirts, both KL and KM alike, so here it goes.

After a long time having the same uniforms that were designed in 1990 the Dutch MoD finally decided to make some changes from around 2008 onwards.
Mostly because of experiences made in the Afghan war, the first new items to come were Desert smocks and UBACS.

This first post will be about KL smocks, due to some time-issues I'll later add posts about the UBACS shirts and the updated "M93" uniforms.

In 2008 there were 4 different smock models that were marked on the label with manufacturer numbers and some also without NSN, others with the
numbers being replaced by X's.

From that batch I've seen 3 out of 4 types, the other one is still a mystery to me, and 1 of them was approved for further production in 2009.

Here's my only 2008 smock, made by manufacturer 4, which originally came with 4 pads, 2 in the shoulders and 2 in the elbows, but these were removed in my smock.