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The Indian Army has introduced the New Coat Combat (Digital Print) successful January 2025, pursuing the unveiling of its caller digital-print combat uniform.
According to the Ministry of Defence, designed by the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), New Delhi, nether a consultancy task of the Army Design Bureau, the three-layered overgarment incorporates precocious method textiles. Its ergonomic operation enhances comfort, mobility and operational ratio crossed varied climatic and tactical conditions.
The improvement marks different important measurement successful the Army’s efforts to modernise, beforehand indigenisation and amended worker comfort, it said.
The Army has formally registered the plan with the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, Kolkata, nether Design Application No. 449667-001 dated February 27, 2025, published successful the Patent Office Journal connected October 7, 2025. This grants the Army exclusive IPR implicit some the coat’s plan and camouflage pattern, ensuring ineligible extortion against unauthorised manufacturing oregon commercialized usage nether the Designs Act, 2000, Designs Rules, 2001, and the Patents Act, 1970.
The New Coat Combat ensemble comprises a durable digitally printed outer coat, an insulated interior overgarment and a thermal basal furniture for moisture and somesthesia regulation. Together, they correspond a large upgrade successful combat functionality, extortion and wearer comfort, it further said.
The IPR registration underscores the Army’s increasing absorption connected innovation, plan extortion and self-reliance successful defence covering systems, aligning with the imaginativeness of Atmanirbhar Bharat and the Army’s “Decade of Transformation (2023–2032).”
