Tamil Tiger Cactus

This is the pattern used by the Tamil Tigers in the Sri Lankan civil war where the rebel group vied to gain independence from the country.  They fielded quite significant resources in their decades-long campaign, including an original camouflage pattern.

There are four known colorways: woodland for ground forces, light blue for air elements, black and grey for their suicide bomber detachment and dark blue for their naval/pirate detachments.

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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was a separatist movement based in northern Sri Lanka that waged a long civil war against the government from 1976 to 2009, in an attempt to establish state for the Tamil people. They were militarily defeated in May of 2009 following the death of key military leaders and several essential victories by government forces, including the capture of the LTTE capital Kilinochchi. Over the course of the civil war, the LTTE had amassed considerable military resources, fielding not only ground forces, but both sea and air elements as well (known as the Sea Tigers and Air Tigers, respectively). Each branch of service wore a variation of a unique "cactus" camouflage pattern with a different colorway.

• The standard "cactus" pattern of the LTTE consists of horizontal "spiny" stripes of brown & grass green on a khaki background. Both horizontal and vertically-oriented variants have been documented.
• The LTTE Air Tigers pattern has a powder-blue colorway but utilizing essentially the same "spiny" stripe pattern of the standard design
• The pattern worn by the Sea Tigers is essentially the same colorway but with the addition of a darker blue stripe added to the mix.
• Another variation of the "spiny" stripe design is with a black & grey colorway. This design was issued to the Black Tigers, an elite organization of the LTTE which often launched suicide attacks against both military and civilian targets.

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