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Flora camouflage
Flora camouflage
	Flora camouflage pattern
Type	Military camouflage pattern
Place of origin	Russian Federation
Service history
In service	1998-?
Used by	Russian Armed Forces
Wars	Second Chechen War; Russo-Georgian War; War in Donbas

Flora ( Russian: Флора, sometimes erroneously called VSR-98) is a military camouflage pattern formerly used by the Russian Armed Forces. It was adopted in 1998 and was replaced in service in 2009 by EMR camouflage.

History

"Flora" came as a replacement for the “Barvikha” camouflage - the name of the R&D program, but there was no official name, so popular nicknames like "vertikalka" ( vertical), "berezka" ( birch), VSR-93 and so on appeared.^[1]

"Flora" was adopted into the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 1998. The drawing creates optical illusions of silhouette dissolution both at close and at a great distance against the backdrop of the nature of central Russia.^[2] Because of the characteristic stripes, "Flora" was nicknamed "Arbuznyj" ( watermelony; арбузный) camouflage, the erroneous designation VSR-98 is also known, (which stands for Vooruzhennyye sily Rossii or Russian Armed Forces 1998), this name came from the book "Camouflage Uniforms of the Soviet Union and Russia:1937-To the Present" by Dennis Desmond.^{[
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Developed in the late 1990s, it has some similarities with the Soviet " Butan" camo, "Barvikha" and the American "Tiger".