Camouflage (Red Alert)

Camouflage is, whether natural or manufactured, an adaptation to help lessen the ability to discern an object from its surrounding environment. This can mean anything from decreasing the chances of getting shot to blending in to a background outright. Also, camouflage can be as simple as the "olive drab" patterns uniforms of Allied Rifle infantry to the high tech disguise systems used by Mirage tank

History
Military camouflage did not enter standard military service until the 1900s. Prior to that, most armies adopted brightly colored uniforms for service, in order to make identification easier and foster unit cohesion. During the 1700s and 1800s, the poor accuracy of rifles and the tendency of armies to march in rows and columns largely eliminated the need for camoflague. Scouting units and militia would wear neutral tones, in order to make them harder to spot, but it wasn't until Western armies started to suffer enormous losses that they gave regular soldiers drab uniforms.

The First World War was the first major war where all the major participants began experimenting with camouflage. While the majority of the soldiers simply had duller, less noticeable uniforms, snipers and scouts developed specialized camouflage gear, including netting to mimic plant life.

Second World War
During the Second World War, the Allied forces issued their troops with "olive drab" patterns. They also experimented with the gap generator, which could reset the fog of war over a battlefield, concealing a base from enemy incursions. The first experiments in active camouflage, the Allied Phase transport, was invented. This system rendered the phase transport invisible to the human eye by bending light around the tank. A Soviet cyborg named Volkov stole the prototype and the designs were lost. With the fall of the Soviet Union, it seemed as though the unique invisibility system was lost forever.

The Soviets also used camouflage. While their infantry were generally given standard olive uniforms and brown coats, their vehicles had several camouflage patterns designed for urban, forest, and desert environments. Interestingly, Soviets tanks were most often seen painted with black and grey urban camouflage, even in snowy environments.

Third World War
During the Third World War, Allied continued use gap generator to jam Soviet radar signals and after Allied time travel to rebooted the War, it's wa received several new modifications that allowed it to "bend" the psychic radar around itself to counter Yuri unusual radar technology, although the overwhelming psychokinetic power of a "Psychic Reveal" was enough to temporarily overwhelm the generators processors, revealing anything it hid for a few seconds. Albert Einstein aslo developed Mirage tank, with can take on the appearance of any organic item in order to disguise itself.

War of the Three Powers
Cherdenko's erasure of Professor Einstein meant that the Allies no longer had the gap generator to serve in the Allied arsenal of Third World War. However the latest version of the Mirage Tank had a secondary function named the gap generator to hide any friendly units within its radius from the enemy.

The Sudden transport of Imperial army using a unique stealth camoflague system that allows it to mimic the appearance of enemy vehicles. With this device, the Sudden Transport is able to slip through enemy lines and sneak their way past defenses, allowing them to deploy Imperial troops at vulnerable enemy positions in the rear.