WeedMeister
I recently bought a pair of pants that I can't identify. The cut is the same as on the soviet "afghanka" winter pants, these have the button holes for attaching a liner. The camouflage is a TTsKO:ish swirly pattern, but it has "sharp" shapes, like scraps you're left over with after cutting out elaborate pictures printed on paper. This pattern is a lot like the early TTsKO "Butan" camo used in limited numbers by Naval infantry, but still, the sharp shapes make it different.
During the Transnistrian war in 1992, many strange pieces of equipment where used, one of them a crappy kind of vest that seems to have seen very widespread use during that conflict. The camouflage pattern used on these is very much like the one on the trousers in question. Also, as the Moldovan military uses "Butan" this Transnistrian-connection does not seem too far fetched. Many photos from the Transnistrian war show Transnistrians wearing uniforms that might have this same camouflage pattern, but as almost all photos from this war are of extremely low quality it is hard to tell.
Both leg pockets are made as magazine pouches, separated by a seam running down the full lenght of the pocket in the middle, I've seen many late-soviet/early-russian trousers with one leg pocket like this, but never both. The suspenders are of the basic soviet design, but the elastic band is white with stripes of red and blue. The pockets are made of a dark blue fabric, and not of the "standard" brown cloth seen on soviet and russian clothes. Stamps and markings are almost completely worn out, there is only a faint square that seems to be something like the "OTK" stamp on russian and soviet clothes and a line of text written using bleach.
If someone really knows what these are all about, please, tell me!




Photos from the Transnistrian war, as you can see, the quality is rather low. Both the vests and the camouflaged uniforms I mentioned earlier can be seen here.


The vest itself, a shitty rag made from cheap cloth, real rare-issuge right here!


Russian naval infantry wearing "Butan" in the first Chechen war.


Russian naval infantry on exercise, note helmet covers made from "Butan" cloth.


Moldovan "Green amoeba" pattern clothes, clearly a copy of "Butan".

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