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LBX Tactical Offers Pre-Orders on Products

Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

LBX Tactical has introduced three products for Pre-order. The Lock & Load Chest Rig (seen below), Stealth Backpack, and Transporter Pack for gaming consoles.

The Lock & Load Chest Rig features the Honor Camo pattern developed for Project Honor and EA’s Medal of Honor Warfighter video game. This split-front rig has padded shoulder straps and incorporates four dual M4 magazine pouches w/ hook and loop flap closure, two pouches for night vision goggles/5590 batteries, flaps with hook & loop closure, removable elastic closure and two additional utility/fragmentation grenade pouches with webbing and side release closure for added security.

LBX is accepting Pre-orders now for 1 December shipment.

lbxtactical.com

Tags: LBX Tactical, Project Honor
Posted in Camo, Load Carrying | 9 Comments »

AUSA – ADS US4CES

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

If you’re at AUSA, make sure you visit ADS Inc in booth # 2413 and throw your business card in the bowl for a chance to win one of 10 CamelBak Urban Assault packs in the OCIE pattern of the US4CES family of camouflage.

www.adsinc.com/US4CES

Tags: ADS Inc, AUSA, US4CES
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Australians to Deploy in New Camo Soon

Monday, October 22nd, 2012

Australian troops have been wearing MultiCam uniforms for a couple of years now. Concurrently, they’ve worked with Crye Precision to develop a distinctive Australian version of the MultiCam pattern as they had with the British military’s Multi Terrain Pattern.

According to a report on News.com.au, this new pattern is ready and will be fielded soon to Australian troops. Troops from the 7th Battalion (7RAR) along with members of the RAAF’s airfield Defence Guards will deploy in the next few weeks.

Defence Materiel Minister Jason Clare related that they have ordered an initial run of 3600 Operational Combat Uniforms worth $780,000. Additionally, they plan to order 5500 more next year from producer Pacific Brands WorkWear Group in West Footscray, Victoria from fabric milled by Bruck Textiles in Wangaratta.

~~Unfortunately, still no photos of~~ the Australian MultiCam Pattern which I am told is all but indistinguishable from standard MultiCam.

As reader Phillip pointed out, this is the new AMP. When I first saw it awhile back I discounted it as I had expected the Australian version to be more distinguishable from its MultiCam base. But I checked with someone who would know and they said this looks correct as AMP.

Tags: Australia, Multicam
Posted in Camo, Foreign | 16 Comments »

Army Awards Rothtec Contract for Soldier and Small Unit Digital Ink Jet Printed Camouflage

Saturday, October 20th, 2012

It’s very promising to see the Army looking for Soldier and Small Unit Digital Ink Jet Printed Camouflage. The current Camouflage Improvement Effort is all about current state of the art wet printing and providing a static family of camouflage patterns that are within their own environmental zones of Woodland, Desert and Transitional, universal in nature. For example. When the Army selects a woodland pattern this fall, it will have to work in all green environments, which if you’ve spent any amount of time in different areas occupied by things green will know that they can be vastly different.

The real golden ring in this camo game is to be able to dynamically blend in with the background as you move around. Short of that you have two schools of thought; it’s either universal patterns or to be able to rapidly develop and produce into finished goods camouflage patterns for specific environments. The former is less expensive but easier to deal with logistically and operationally, the latter is expensive and difficult to manage.

This is where this contract award comes in. The US Army has awarded Rothtec Engraving Corp $1,334,156.00 to “develop a new highly innovative technology for rapidly designing and printing new and existing camouflage patterns with infrared reflective capability onto military textiles.”

www.fbo.gov

Tags: Rothtec Engraving Corp
Posted in Camo, Contracts | 4 Comments »

HyperStealth Speaks Out on Quantum Stealth

Friday, October 19th, 2012

We’ve written about HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp’s Quantum Stealth program as have many in the media. And, we’ve seen the actual material in use. We’ve also respected Hyperstealth’s IP rights by not divulging details about the technology.

They’ve taken a lot of heat for providing mock up photos (that the press asked for) like the one above and have published a response to those criticisms as well as providing some history on the project. It’s definitely worth the read.

One thing I really like about the article is that they provide some photos of their SmartCamo product which is a very promising technology for variable color camouflage.

www.hyperstealth.com/Quantum-Stealth

Tags: Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp
Posted in Camo | 8 Comments »

Kifaru to Introduce Kryptek Highlander

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Kifaru informed us last night that they are introducing the Kryptek camo in the Highlander pattern to their line of packs. Kryptek was downselected by the US Army as one of four finalist families of patterns for their Camouflage Improvement Effort which is still in source selection.

They are the first tactical pack maker to offer Kryptek, and it will be throughout the entire line…packs, pockets, and accessories. They have settled on 1000D Cordura on the tactical side and 500D Cordura on the hunting side, along with Kryptek webbing.

Look for it on their website and ready to order in about 2 weeks.

www.kifaru.net

Tags: Kifaru, Kyptek
Posted in Camo, Packs | 1 Comment »

ADS Inc is Offering a Chance to Win a US4CES Giveaway at AUSA

Thursday, October 18th, 2012

ADS Inc is offering 10 Camelbak Urban Assault hydration packs in their US4CES OCIE pattern to attendees of the upcoming AUSA annual meeting in Washington DC, Oct 22-24. To enter, visit the ADS booth #2413 and give them your business card. Winners will be randomly chosen on the last day.

This is your chance to get your hands on one of the US Army Camouflage Improvement Effort finalist patterns, and it’s the first time anyone has had a chance to own US4CES gear.

adsinc.com/us4ces
adsinc.com/camelbak

Tags: ADS Inc, Camelbak
Posted in ADS, Camo, Contest | 2 Comments »

MAPA – A New Polish Army Experimental Camo

Tuesday, October 16th, 2012

From our friends at SpecOps.PL

It is called MAPA (Map in Polish) and is under development by ASP post-graduate Mr. Maciej Dojlitko.

It is a family of patterns, developed specifically to match terrain and vegetation patterns met in Poland. There is a full scientific stdudy conducted behind this developments. The pattern is undergoing testing, and will be changed several times.

Comparison tests will be conducted soon to compare the pattern to standard Polish Army wz.92 “PANTERA” camo.

Tags: Poland, SPECOPS.PL
Posted in Camo, Foreign | 12 Comments »