TPG awarded contract to produce nearly 6,000 ballistic helmets for a large South American Military Customer
Boynton Beach, Fla. (March 2015) – Tacprogear (TPG), a leading manufacturer of tactical equipment used by professionals around the globe, announced today the receipt of a $1+ million dollar award to provide ballistic helmets to a South American Military.
TPG Armor and TPG BLACK, the American Made Mission Specific line of products made in South Florida, include a complete line of both hard and soft armor. The helmet line, which includes their standard PASGT, ACH/MICH and High Cut SCOUT helmets were all possible contenders for the end-user, who specified a product with certain performance, weight and overall ballistic properties important to the end-user on the ground.
The new helmet production line, which recently relocated from Delray Beach, FL. to a state-of-the art 30,000 square foot facility in Boynton Beach, FL, is one of the fastest growing product lines for TPG.
Alex Cejas, President of Tacprogear, stated, “We are excited about this new award given our recent return from Europe where we evaluated the latest new ballistic helmet technologies and machines. At TPG, we always want to be on the leading edge of development and production for all of our products,” Cejas added.
For more information on any of the Tacprogear product line, visit www.tacprogear.com or www.tpgblack.com
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How does Tacprogear compare to OpsCore and are they licensing the design?
I’ve wondered about these OpsCore look-alikes compare and the IP issues.
This section has me raising an eyebrow:
“The SCOUT also includes a proprietary 4 Position Accessory Rail and Shroud System manufactured with T-6 carbon aluminum”
T-6 carbon aluminum. That’s a new one. I’m familiar with 6061 T6 aircraft grade aluminum, and I’m familiar with carbon fiber, but carbon aluminum? Really?
The ops core lookalike rails are kind of worrisome as well – you see the chinese knockoff helmets with the tabs installed like that on ebay.
Yep, Chinese Kevlar Ops-Core knock-offs with cheap Velcro.
They certainly aren’t the only ones doing it. Some retailers who should know much better do the same. When I walked up to the booth of one in particular and mentioned ops-core, the rep acted as if he’d never heard of them.
It’s really ridiculous that so many foreign militaries are jumping on this rail fad when they don’t even use any of the systems that they were designed specifically for; Peltors, O2 masks, dual tube NVGs, IR Strobes, etc.
They are so eager to get the newest, most cool thing that they don’t even consider that they might not have the ability to take advantage of it. DEVGRU guys have been more and more frequently seen taking the rails off their Maritimes because they don’t have any actual use for them. Any of the systems they use are either legacy and not compatible or just redundant. Aside from odds and ends, no one is making new systems that are arc-rail compatible because Velcro and common-sense retention works fine.
Looks like they’re using Chinese knockoff opscore rails and shrouds on ballistic helmets. If they’re shady enough to use knockoff parts I can’t imagine what kind of corners were cut in producing the ballistic helmets.
Shame since South American forces could really use good gear but are only getting ripped off with this junk. Even tacpro’s bump helmet is a complete travesty and knockoff
All TPG’s designs are knocked off from their helmets, to their plate carriers, and packs. Go back to China we only want USA made here no matter what your mission statement claims. You can not hide the obvious from those who can spot the imposters. You will never see a dime from this American.
Looks like junk, but what do you expect for $167.00 each.
Those are their “non-ballistic bump helmets”.
Their “Scout” ballistic helmets show above are $740