WTF’s Plate Carrier 06 is made in the USA from US made, milspec, solution dyed, Berry compliant, IRR compliant nylon fabrics. Plate Carrier 06 is available for small, medium, large, and x large SAPI and 10 x 12 plates.
Plate Carrier 06 accepts WTF’s Accessory Panels, SwiftClip® placards, and similar. Plate Carrier 06 accepts WTF’s proprietary G Hook back panels and cummerbunds attached with hook and loop. Plate Carrier 06 plate bags have a generous stretch panel and will accept a wide variety of industry standard size plates in respective sizes.
VELCRO® Brand USA hook and loop panels both front and back accept IFF, ID, etc. On both plate bags, two webbing loops accept split bar female buckles for accessory panel docking. VELCRO® Brand USA One-Wrap strips make hydro and commo management easy and quick. PALS (often erroneously referred to as MOLLE) back panels, hydro back panels, aid and litter back panels, explosive breaching back panels, thermal breaching back panels, commo back panels, and other back panels offer added value and versatility to scale as necessary.
Optional shoulder pads (sold separately) enhance comfort and routing options while further reducing fatigue.
Plate Carrier 06 uses MIL-DTL-32439 500D nylon, MIL-W-17337 & A-A-55301 nylon webbing, A-A-55126 nylon hook & loop, A-A-59826 bonded nylon thread, MIL-W-5664 nylon elastic, safe and modern machinery, and well compensated skilled labor to produce a cost effective, versatile, scalable, plate carrying solution.
Plate Carrier 06 is manufacturable. Whether for direct or dealer sale, this design is realistic for us to keep in stock or near stock with (as close to) on demand cut & sew (as we can get) and replenishing inventory on the fly. This design represents a balance of durability, ease of assembly, machine operator fatigue reduction, COTS materials use, cost effective cut and sew methods, self jigging/locating design, scalability, and usability.
Plate Carrier 06 is lightweight. A size medium Plate Carrier 06 is just under 1lb / 450g with Cummerbund 02 and without an accessory panel.
The write up says that it has PALS webbing on the back panel and is comparable with various back panel (breaching, hydro, etc) but looking at the only image of the back panel provided I don’t see how that is possible. No PALS slots, webbing or zippers are shown. Perhaps they forgot to post an image. Not sure.
Otherwise I welcome more armor and carrier production in the US. More the merrier.
From what I understand, it only accepts proprietary back panels, and one of them is a PALS one.
the loops of 1″ webbing at the top and side means you can use split-bar buckles, G-hooks, 550/bungie, Grimlocks, or whatever other fastener to add the back panel or pouches of your choice. I’m going to get one and work a Matbock tegris insert (from the Graverobber Assault Medic) in as a back panel. I can’t get over how inexpensive this is for a US-made carrier with all this modularity.
has anyone had field experience with their stuff? A lot of their designs look great but I have not heard any reviews.
Yes, they used to send us stuff all the time to look at and mess with. Their products are very well built, and designed.
I have used their previous gen of hypalon chest rig panels extensively hiking in the mountains, use their WTFix in place of MALICE clips, and have taken to using their PIMPS05 chest rig and BAG02 (as a subabdominal pouch or with a waist strap as a fannypack) while hunting in the swamps and woods. ACRONYM is tough and easy to clean. Solid construction, great materials, and lots of ingenuity crammed into their products and it’s made right here in the US! If you like a particular design then I would feel very confident about the durability of that item.