Mayflower tells us that they are working on getting all of the correct Kryptek pattern materials in stock. Here is a Low-Profile Armor Carrier (LPAC) and UW GEN IV Chest Rig is Typhon. You can see how well it pairs with Arc-teryx Talos in Wolf.
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Mayflower Goes Typhon
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013The Agilite ‘Ninja’
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Developed at the request of Advanced Assault Gear in Tokyo, The Ninja is a micro-framed plate carrier designed for the smaller-framed warrior. The average height of males in Japan is just 172cm (5′ 7″) and as most plate carriers are made in the United States, where people in general and military operators in particular are significantly bigger, standard plate carriers were less suited to this market. The Ninja stepped into this gap, being tighter fitting, especially around the shoulders and back.
Despite its tighter fit, the Ninja is built for a size medium ESAPI plate in order to provide a proportionally high level of ballistic protection.
The Ninja also features a brand new telescopic shoulder-strap system and a removable cummerbund.
The Ninja is available in Japan exclusively from Advanced Assault Gear and is available in MultiCam, Coyote Brown, Black and A-TACS AU.
RG Unveils New Addition to LVR
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Rogue Gunfighter has introduced a new addition to their LVR armor carrier, officially released at last week’s SHOT Show. It is a slip on Admin/dump bag that attaches to the cummerbund allowing the operator easy access to mags in the pouch. It’s a simple easy slip-on and off affair with no PALS. The LVR will be available for purchase early March.
SHOT Show – Rogue Gunfighter
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Rogue Gunfighter displayed an interesting variant of their LVR Armor Carrier. Check it out in the TAG/LCI Booth.
ODG Sighting – Legion Firearms
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
Interestingly, the garment in ODG’s Lupus pattern is an Arc’teryx LEAF Talos ensemble. See how well the patterns mesh.
SHOT Show – Eagle Industries
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013Eagle Industries is offering their new Modular Armor Carrier which is rapid releasable but not a cable cutaway system. Originally developed for a UK aircrew program the MAC will also be available in a non-FR version. It accepts BALCS cut armor panels and plates.
There are several distinct features but the most prominent are the horizontal and vertical PALS field, quick release shoulders for rapid donning and doffing and the ability to use Velcro on the cummerbund or ease of donning and doffing. Additionally, the MAC has the ability to accept 12 water sachets in the armor cavity. Additionally, it accepts a chest-style extraction harness.
Coming soon.
Check Out American Armor Attire at SHOT Show
Monday, January 14th, 2013
Last Fall I had to opportunity to meet with a small company in Fredricksburg, Virginia that makes bespoke suits. Granted, in the DC area there are plenty of tailors. What makes these guys different is that they make armored suits. In addition to three piece suits with armor panels, they also make armored dress shirts.
Owners Abbas Haider and Robert Davis began the work as a project at the University of Mary Washington and over time transformed it into American Armor Attire after graduation. Renegade Armor, also located in the area supplies the ballistic material to them. The result is the access to a custom tailored suit with armor built in. These guys know what they are doing. You would never know that the clothing that I was shown was armored. And, their location is ideal. It’s close enough to DC so that they have access to a very large market but far enough out that they can get some work done.
Representatives from American Armor Attire will be available at SHOT Show in the FirstSpear / Renegade Armor booth #8103.
LAPD SIS Pioneers Mobile Apprehension and Develops New Armor System with SOTech
Friday, January 11th, 2013LAPD’s SIS (Special Investigation Section) is legendary for apprehending the most dangerous felons on their city’s streets. Now, their new equipment package developed with SOTech is available for other agencies. Below is what SOTech has to say about this new armor and pouch system.
SOTech’s design staff are honored to develop an armor carrier for a progressive approach to law enforcement suspect apprehension being pioneered and perfected by LAPD’s renowned Special Investigation Section- SIS. The soft and hard armor carrier and specified pouch and go bags are part of a system designed to allow a plain clothes officer in mobile surveillance mode to rapidly don his/her tactical gear, dismount the vehicle and chase down and apprehend the suspected criminal. The game changer here is that the entire ensemble is designed around mobility. The system is not only designed for rapid donning in the tight confines of a surveillance vehicle, but the vest is designed for mobility and dexterity during confrontations. The days of the raid jacket are over as the modern urban environment requires up to ceramic plate rifle round protection. Conventional law enforcement procedures saw a detective in a jacket approach a suspect, now replaced by a bulky protective vest. The only other option was a heavily armored and encumbered SWAT team that could apprehend an armed suspect after that suspect was cornered in a static location where SWAT could set up a perimeter. SIS developed and perfected tactics to break out of that box, tracking the suspect and apprehending him or her on the move. SOTech designers spent months working with members of the elite LAPD unit, customizing the rigs around their deployment of weapons, auto glass breachers, distraction devices, bandoleers and other tools in well-choreographed foot and vehicle take downs. For the past 15 years we at SOTech have been lucky to be in Los Angeles working with LAPD SIS. They have a well-deserved world-wide reputation for surveillance and tactics. And it’s been an amazing experience working with them as they identified such a significant tactical gap, developed radical-thinking tactics, and then perfected them to the standard of a major metropolitan department such as LAPD. Numerous Los Angeles area departments are already looking at adapting these TTPs, and we expect to see detective bureaus and narcotics divisions world-wide adapt to the program. As professionals, SOTech won’t discuss the intricacies of the tactics, but we will assist law enforcement professionals who have equipment/tactical inquires coordinate with the POC at LAPD SIS.
The SIS developers will be on hand at SHOT Show and will be periodically available at the SOTECH booth #20113 to discuss their system and tactics with interested law enforcement professionals. Please email Jim@SpecOpsTech.com to coordinate a meeting time during SHOT.
