While it’s been a long time coming, Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp has just announced the arrival of their new Series 2 Spec4ce patterned clothing.
Urban Light on the Left and Woodland on the Right
Pre-orders will begin to ship Wednesday July 27 with all pre-orders expected to be shipped by next Friday, August 5. Once the pre-orders are shipped out and they’ve been able to deal with any size issues, they’ll open the site for sales for a limited time in late August to early September.
There are actually 17 patterns in Series 2 but two cannot be shown here. According to a statement from Guy Cramer of Hyperstealth, “The 17 color schemes are the most ever done for a commercial order or even a country order (that we are aware of), add the three other patterns we didn’t run from S1 (Urban, Tropical and Forest [Forest was licensed to Afghanistan]) and the Sierra pattern for the ANCOP and that puts the total Spec4ce color schemes that have gone into production at 21.”
Here you can see the pocket layout for their uniforms. Every Jacket has one of their Patented Passive Negative Ion Generators embedded in the collar. Additionally, every Ball Cap has the generator embedded into the underside of the brim of the cap. While I remain skeptical about Negative Ion Generators, a few people I trust are convinced. To learn more, check this out: www.hyperstealth.com/beckett/index.html
I do wish Hyperstealth had dispensed with the button on the top of the ballcaps and replaced it with Velcro. At this point, that is the industry standard for a “tactical” cap.
Keep your eye on their website for more info on open sales of the Spec4ce patterns.
Hyperstealth has an extremely unprofessional web site and they claim to have “researched” tens of different camouflage patterns. It looks like the company of a high school nerd with Photoshop skills. I don’t think much thought or actual R&D has been put into the creation of these patterns. Most of them seem to be derivatives of existing patterns anyway.
How different are these from MARPAT & NWU patterns? This must be a joke…
Of all the commercially available patterns few to none can really compete with PenCott in my opinion.
Never believed that Spec4ce series 2 run would actually get finished. Can’t help but have a dubious feeling with all things pertaining to Hyperstealth.
Funny you should mention that. Spec4ce is based on the same Algorithm we used for SpecAm:
http://www.hyperstealth.com/specam/science/index.html
The U.S. Government has ruled that the Spec4ce pattern is different from MARPAT.
Guy,
Your site could use a facelift.
Old dude
Apart from Multicam, I think only A-TACS succeeds as a privately developed military camouflage pattern. PenCott or any random product by Hyperstealth will fail to be accepted by crowds.
Dont judge a book by its cover. There are plenty of legit companies out there that a a shitty site, and vise versa.
1.1 Million uniforms use HyperStealth Spec4ce patterns
Have you seen the Afghan National Army or ANCOP. They all for the most part outfitted in Forest Spec4ce for the ANA and Sierra for the ANCOP, go see if they really look like they are wearing Marine Uniforms. You are really not looking close enough if you are just comparing at digital face value for MARPAT
why the (pardon the pun) hype about hyperstealth? Besides that cloaking effort they have, their camouflage uniforms are incredibly poor. I’ve seen the ANA uniforms and they are really poor quality and the pattern is extremely suspect and unprofessional looking. It isn’t any better than the old DPM the UK had. The guy in charge of hyperstealth is crowing about how the British Army cancelled their work with him during testing of Digital DPM. Has he asked himself why? His gear is shit, that’s why. Sorry pal.
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LOL most of you people sound like Multiscam fan-boys. Its called innovation and not many companies that create camo patterns can say that. I mean has anybody here even seen the camo patterns HyperStealth creates that are not on their website?
MultiGlam, Hyper-Hype, Gigi-Cool, The pathfinders of D-day and some SF units in Nam simply painted their uniforms with a brush or a rattle-can, thus breaking up the outline of the body. I’m still amazed at all hype about one pattern over the other. Sure, some are more effective than others but when it comes down to it camouflage only works when your standing still. It all comes down to aesthetics and that is why Crye and ATACS are so popular – they just look so cool.
maredesign makes a good point, but there is something to be said for having an effective camouflage pattern. There was an excellent comparison done between something like 13 different patterns by ITS Tactical (hyper stealth wasn’t represented), and most modern camouflage patterns did what they were supposed to. In the end though, most of the responsibility for camouflage comes down to the operator. A good base pattern makes for an easier time when camouflaging, and helps most in avoiding detection in conjunction with natural foliage. Anybody actually standing out in the open in front of brush expecting his pattern to save him needs to get his head checked.
Button on a tactical cap? Aside from camo – and any decent camo is usually better than none, aka “I’m carrying a black rifle and you can’t see me!” you MUST have uniform details that are part of a mindset that don’t contribute to injury.
I’d suggest having your buddy bounce a helmet lightly on ANY ballcap and educating you the wearer about stupid little buttons on top – but DON’T, it could wind up as a skull fracture. I’ve been taking them off for 15 years or more.
It’s not just to sew velcro on, it’s about minimizing injury if something falls on you when the risk didn’t seem that high. While it appears that this company is taking great pains to develop camo that works, someone is letting a commercial subcontractor drive design details that don’t. If that’s the level of attention the end product gets, then that’s what gets considered in deciding to purchase. I can get all kinds of looky loo camo uniforms off the shelf at the nearest Army/Navy boutique.
There are a lot of reasons to not wear a baseball cap in a tactical situation, and details like this are a reminder why it’s simply not appropriate, regardless of the cool patches or people who wear it. It’s a casual civilian sports design, not tactical, and much of what it does can be done better by other designs. Save it for the OG107 days when starched fatigues and white name tapes were worn in the field.
Holy Shi’ite! Its like Baskin Robbins for camouflage…
I had a couple of sets of their Series 1 run – and I wasn’t impressed. The 100% cotton twill fabric was comfortable, but not milspec and not very durable, it didn’t have IRR capabilities either. The uniform design was also an odd mix of BDU and ACU and not that great in my opinion.
And it seems that when their camo has actually been put to the test, it came up short: https://soldiersystems.net/2009/09/18/natick-camo-study-making-sense-part-ii/
Well, don’t I feel like I need to eat some of last weeks words. Here before me are some actual, printed patts. Let’s see how many uniforms are actually made.
Guy, I need to shoot you an email.
This is a commercial run people, yes some of our previous Series 1 uniforms ended up with advisors in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the intended customer is Joe public, movie productions, airsoft, paintball, agressor training teams… If you want the real Milspec uniforms, we do that as well, but your group needs to meet specific criteria to get those.
The ball caps are not meant to go into combat, but were a way to provide another means to carry our passive negative ion generator as well as a way to deal with the leftover material from production.
Regarding the Natick test, they ordered those two uniforms “to add to their collection” they did not tell me they were for a camouflage study. Why didn’t they order our woodland or desert variations which were developed for those particular environments?Â
So basically you’re saying that you’re not so different from Chinese airsoft companies?
Well they are actually made in China…
Or 80% of all camouflage, these are the same factories that made the Jordan military camouflage uniforms. Even the British are having MTP done in China. This commercial line in only a small part of what we do. Our Ghostex system uses Berry Compliant (made in the USA) Milspec fabrics.
In this article people who have no idea what they are talking about, bitching about XYZ camo that they don’t think is pretty on the eyes.
Thats true for one thing many militarys including ours feel sensetive about the thought of having thier cams made in the PRC,even when they made cheap copy of MARPAT like the Type 07 for example,And our god awful UCP,The 2nd series from Spec seems almost similar to the 1st exept with a slight tweak or two and its different from MARPAT in some ways,Its all going to come full circle soon they will probably go with somthing simply”as they say”different but with the same geometry as UCP and MARPAT when they finaly realize that Predator camo wont exsist for the next few decades or longer,If had to be in charge of changing over to a more proper camo it would be one of these two PenCott or Spec,but thats just me.
I bet if you look at the labels of the clothing you are wearing, unless it was US GI, it was made overseas. Making issue of where commercial clothing was made is more than a bit silly.
^ What the Admin says.
I Do but not every shirt or pants says made in the Dominican Republic on em but thats beside the point,I ment that if the marines can base MARPAT off of CADPAT then nothing should stand in the way of the army finding and basing patterns off of someone elses camo for thier own,And the whole feeling sensetive issue was something i hoped the guy two post above would answer,In the end i could care less about where my boxers were made,just as long as they dont fall apart while im wearing them:).