As is generally the case with most G3s made in a camo that isn’t offered directly on the Crye website, these trousers were part of a specific order batch made for one particular retailer of tactical kit. Other examples of this would include Finnish M05 and Norwegian M98 pattern G3s, both ordered by retailers in their respective home countries.
Fortunately this 10 year old page that explains the origins of these specific and distinct German uniforms had been left up on the TACWRK website, so I was able to screenshot it for preservation here (in case it is finally taken down some day).
While the Gen 2 uniforms that Crye did produce in Flecktarn and Tropentarn had distinct slotted buttons on the main cargo pockets, there isn’t anything unique about these uniforms in terms of features. It’s just the main fabric used and the camouflage applied to it that are out of the norm.
As you can see in this close-up, the fabric is a twill as opposed to the rip-stop that is used in the vast majority of G3 uniforms. That is very much the norm for modern German camo fabrics however.
Personally I am a tad sceptical that this fabric is actually 50/50 NYCO, as that would not be the norm for twill Flecktarn material that has been produced in large quantities for a very long time now to equip the Bundeswehr. I’m not going to cut a piece of fabric off my garment to send for chemical analysis, but I would guess that the labels used were ones that were already available.
Check out this earlier post to see the accompanying set in Tropentarn.
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