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My current view is that either the people running the tests only wanted a camo that blended perfectly into piles of gravel and old lady couches and absolutely nothing else, or they had legally blind people performing the tests. I strongly doubt this link will change my mind but I'll give it a shot.
The TLDR is the focus of the design was entirely on defeating NIR, at the expense of other considerations.
It was somehow worse than I thought.