During Enforce Tac we shared a few photos of signature management products by Fibrotex. The uniform used in conjunction with the ghillie suit is an FR garment issued to Dutch SF in their new digital pattern.
Offered in the Netherlands by Profile Equipment, these garments are intended for wear in hot weather and the proprietary fabric is treated with Permethrin as well as being FR.
The ripstop weave fabric is a blend of four different fibers. Additionally, stress points and slotted buttons are bartacked and they’ve incorporated wide belt loops for duty belts as well as height adjustable kneepads in addition to easily removable labels and washing instructions to prevent irritation.
For more info, visit Profile Equipment.
The dude with the pistol… obviously never shot a pistol before or he must hate his left thumb…
Haha saw that too. Probably just a warm body they grabbed for photos.
Dutch treat….
Self correcting mistake
I knew soon as I saw that photo it would be the only thing talked about in the comments. 🙂
Same.
“Squirrel!”
Wait, there was an article too? All I saw was the picture! 😛
Nice that they’re doing out of the box permethrin treatment. Saves people a little time even if you do have to renew it.
Dutch SF (commandos at least) wear multicam and this pattern doesn’t look like the NFP pattern (which is still not in use) either.
I will try to get some more details.
They did use multicam, but have switched to this pattern instead.
Well, at least for this mission. But they are also known to be experimenting. We’ll see.
So far they have been quite happy with their NFM garments and multicam in general.
Maybe there are problems with delivery/payment etc.?
Could be anything, we can only speculate.
They were not that happy with NFM.
Too be more specific:
Tears with ease
Way to warm
Does not hold the color/pattern.
Hmmm – that camo pattern is neither MultiCam nor NFP. It looks like some kind of roughly pixelized knock-off of MultiCam – more like a transitional version of the new Spanish camo. Probably one of the hundreds of in-house patterns in Fibrotex’s portfolio…
According to Fibrotex it is proprietary to Netherlands
Well that’s interesting – cuz it sure isn’t NFP….
The article from Profile Equipment mentions they developed the camouflage pattern specifically for the environment (Mali).
So it has nothing to do with NFP, which is developed by the Dutch MOD in cooperation with TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research).
Looks like the Spanish pattern with Multicam palette (actually the Spanish pattern is exactly Multicam but with Woodland/Desert palettes and “squaredish” borders)
https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/s960x960/11136166_1140495339324611_1913423493620447085_o.jpg
Another photo of the pattern. This time you see the ‘normal’ jacket, instead of the UBACS. It’s a different jacket than the one NFM designed.
This is not an NFM product.
I know it’s not, however, they used to be supplied with NFM products for the MINUSMA mission.
That shirt doesn’t look like any product NFM has ever (publicly) made. It has none of the common NFM tell-tale design solutions.
Once again, this isn’t an NFM product.
Are any other manufactures going to start using this fabic or is it still too early to tell? Sounds pretty slick
It’s likely that pattern is a derivative of Multicam and licenced to Crye, the similar way they licensed current British army’s MTP and Australian army’s Multicam-derivative.