Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp informed us that ICE (Integrated Combat Equipment) Tactical will be assembling the Hyperstealth Deceptex uniforms. After reviewing the requirements and working with Hobey Walker of ICE Tactical on a current Hyperstealth project, Guy Cramer, President/CEO of Hyperstealth states: “this makes much more sense to provide a higher quality garment than we would be able to do ourselves. This is ICE Tactical’s area of expertise and ours is on the pattern and printing side. It was ADS Inc. that recommended that I contact Hobey Walker for this Deceptex program as his company is only an hour drive from Hyperstealth. Hobey has made 20 uniforms for Hyperstealth in the past month from our printed material and he is working on another 8 which will be ready on Monday. We can’t tell you who the user is for all these 28+ uniforms – due to an NDA, but we are using this to refine the Deceptex printing and assembly process so we have it all nailed down when we do open the site for orders (shortly).
Initially we will only be offering Deceptex for Jackets and Pants and Helmet covers but ICE Tactical has the ability to make Boonie Hats, Load Carrying Gear, Platforms, Pouches, Accessories and Shelters, these may come later for all Deceptex patterns once we source the heavier textiles that work best with our Hyperstealth Textile Printers and work within the ICE Tactical capabilities.”
We think it also kind of helps that they are both located in the Vancouver, BC of Canada.
DECEPTEX, is an innovative “Print on Order” camouflage system capitalizing on 21st century technology. Deceptex is not a camouflage pattern but a camouflage system; Hyperstealth will use their two large format digital inkjet textile printers to print any Deceptex pattern as customer will be able to order one or more uniforms based on a selection of hundreds of Hyperstealth Camouflage patterns (currently there are 259 Deceptex patterns).
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Hopefully ICE will be able to actually keep up on production. They have had a rather checkered past when it comes to sales from their site. They make good products and if they are in stock at a dealer feel free to get them but buyer beware when dealing with ordering from their site. I don’t think its that they are neglectful its more that they often bite off more then they can chew.
exactly Ryan. I used ICE in Afghan and was very happy with what I got. Fortunatly I got it off the shelf from One Shot Tactical. When I was away my wife tried to get something else for me off web to no avail. A buddy of mine tried to order from them it 2 months for delivery. The quality is there though.
good luck trying to get an email response from ICE.
I’ll say that I am confident. The orders will come through HyperStealth and the materials will be provided by them to ICE for assembly. Also, as the story explains, they’ve done this successfully a few times already.
We shall have to see. I am just going by past performance of the company. I wish them nothing but the best as they do make some great stuff and they are Canadian. However they don’t have enough workers and people to deal with high loads. Or didn’t that might have changed in the past year or so. I would just make sure HyperStealth has them in house as you might be waiting for them.
I don’t think you understand Deceptex. It is print on demand. There are over 250 patterns in a myriad of sizes. The point it to NOT stock multiples of every pattern in every size. With Deceptex you order the pattern and size and it’s made for you. It’s custom, not off-the-shelf.
Both Hyperstealth and ICE Tactical are bringing in extra employees to work on Deceptex orders.
Good to hear Guy. I wish the two of you lots of sucess with this. Perhaps I will have to pick up a set to play with at some point.
I wonder if this print on demand system will catch on with other manufacturers to the point that people or military units can submit their own custom patterns to be printed on some generic uniform patterns like BDU & ACU. I’m mostly thinking of this from a costuming perspective but this would also work for Hollywood, and would really reap benefits for the DoD. Instead of having tons of different uniforms on hand sitting in warehouses the military would instead be able to print specialized camouflage uniforms as needed. This would certainly help the Army with their planned 3 patterns for uniforms, they could then only issue 1 pattern then print and issue the other 2 as needed saving a lot of money and not to room in the soldier’s duffle bag.
We’ve been doing that for SpecOps for a number of years now see: http://www.hyperstealth.com/fadespat/
We also do quite a bit of work in the Movie and T.V. industry.
for movies and TV or squirrels this is ok. But not when you are planning a full invaision. Even for a small country like Canada. It’s a good style of manufacturing from a cost point of view. But in practice it gets botched, a lot, like anything else in life. Either the customer has unrealistic expectations or real life happens and different suppliers fail, not always anyones fault. but it happens. People don’t include the fudge factor for delays. Sales men know sales not the industry, usually.
Once again, this is print on demand. Low rate production…highly customized.
I’m holding fire until I see what it’ll cost and what the turn-around time will be.
What’s the point with Deceptex? Hunting, Airsoft and Freak usage? Deceptex is made not to work at near-IR (unlike ‘Ghostex’ also by Hyperstealth), so it’s seriously substandard from a military point of view. And no, NIR capable camo isn’t that fancy nor restricted military tech. Eg NIR-camo-capable Flecktarn is avaible dirt cheap as Bundeswehr surplus.
I see a risk that Deceptex (via ICE) will end up with US and friendly forces failing to enforce proper uniformity nazism. More so than that Deceptex will end up been worn by the adversary.
That said, I applaud the effort to offer dedicated camo in small runs. I hope the prices will be reasonable and that the NIR issue is corrected.