OTTE Gear gave us a tease of their Patrol Parka in the Brookwood Army Improvement Effort Woodland variant submission.
What do you think guys? Should they do it? I’d buy one.
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SHOT Show – OTTE Gear
Tuesday, January 14th, 2014SHOT Show – LBX Camo
Tuesday, January 14th, 2014
For SHOT 2014 LBX Tactical is disrupting the commercial camouflage market with the introduction of four highly effective patterns designed for Winter/Urban, Desert, Woodland and Transitional environments. Working in cooperation with Leading Edge Ventures and HyperStealth Biotechnology Corporation, the goal of the LBX Camo project was to improve upon the vulnerabilities of several of the most popular brands of camouflage and offer the improved capabilities of patterns previously only authorized for use by special mission units within the US Military.
LBX- features the latest advances in camouflage research for reduced signatures to allow for enhanced survivability. Current Uniform Digital Patterns such as MARPAT, CADPAT and AOR1/2 use similar square and rectangular pixels but the smaller size of the larger Macropattern (or Spatial Frequency – blotches) tend to blend into one color as distance from the target increases.
The proprietary 3-dimensional pattern was added to the larger Macropattern regions to subdue to the large Spatial Frequency of the pattern and allow for different aspects of the pattern to work at different distances. This added feature also creates a semi-horizontal natural flow texture and the illusion of depth and more than seven colors from a distance. The horizontal flow of the pattern will help to mask horizontal movement at various tactical distances.
LBX Camouflage addresses these limitations providing one of the most advanced tactical camouflage pattern sets in the world. Using a large Macro pattern, LBX Camo colors are selected with optimum hue and contrast to allow the configuration to have distinct contrasting arrays, which will blend with the natural background while causing the adversary to look past or look through the pattern. Special proprietary algorithms were applied which creates an illusion of 3-dimensional layering. Additionally Sniper Instructors from Naval Special Warfare and the US Marine Corps were consulted to ensure the operational effectiveness of the patterns were validated and optimized.
SnowRaptor ™ (LBX SnowRaptor)
Mantis™ (LBX Mantis)
See the patterns on display at SHOT show booth #31307
Camo Form Camo Wrap Gets New Look And Updated Patterns For 2014
Sunday, January 12th, 2014Camo Form®, the self-adhering camo wrap by McNett® Tactical, is pleased to announce a bold new package and updated camouflage patterns for 2014.
Bellingham, WA (PRWEB) – Camo Form®, the heavy-duty camo wrap by McNett® Tactical, is pleased to unveil bold new packing and updated camouflage patterns for 2014.
“We’re upping our game with revived packaging and eye-catching designs,” said Gerald Craft, brand marketing director. “In addition, we continue to innovate upon our current camouflage patterns with new and original designs.”
Packaging changes include a cool new design featuring bright green colors and authentic imagery; a tabbed color system to help specific patterns stand out on the peg; product-in-use photos which highlight the product’s versatility; and updated branding.
Camouflage patterns slated for release in 2014 include, Kryptek Highlander™, Kryptek Typhon™, Mossy Oak Break-Up Infinity®, Mossy Oak Shadow Grass® Blades®, Realtree Xtra®, Realtree Max-5®, Wolf Grey and Skulls.
Look for new packaging to begin shipping to store shelves on January 2. Visit http://www.mcnett.com/tactical/camoform for new camouflage pattern release dates in 2014.
Coming Soon From ODG & Beyond
Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
Looks Like Something New Is Brewing At LBX Tactical
Friday, January 3rd, 2014
If you like what you see here, be sure to stop by the LBT Inc booth at SHOT Show to see this and more from LBX Tactical.
Some Not-So-Straight Talk From CSA GEN Odierno On OCP
Saturday, December 28th, 2013In a recent interview with the Army Times entitled “Straight talk from Odierno on uniforms, women in combat arms and PT tests” Army Chief of Staff GEN Ray Odierno answered a few questions regarding the Army’s impending switch to OCP as the principle camouflage pattern, ending 10 years of use of the so-called Universal Camouflage Pattern. His answers were rather interestingly worded.
Q. You expect the transition to the Afghanistan uniform?
A. I think the testing tells us that’s the best uniform, but we have not finalized that decision yet. You know that I usually don’t avoid questions, but it’s contractual, so I’ve got to be careful of what I say.
Ultimately, his comment’s support what I’ve been saying for months now; the US Army is adopting the Operational Camouflage Pattern.
However, I find two things funny about this article. First off, just weeks ago the Army Times published an article stating that the US Army wasn’t going to switch patterns.
The second thing is the very comment from GEN Odierno. He is speaking as though OCP (Crye Precision’s MultiCam) were a finalist in the Phase IV Army Camouflage Improvement Effort and the solicitation is still in source selection. OCP wasn’t, at least not as a candidate. It was however, a baseline pattern that the candidates were measured against. Additionally, Crye Precision was a finalist with a family of patterns that are quite similar in geometry to OCP. According to my sources, the Crye entry “won” the tests but due to ineptitude on the part of the Army no winner has been officially announced. It’s very important to point out that these are not the same thing.
Now, by even GEN Odierno’s admission, there is a law in place that restricts the individual services from introducing new camouflage patterns. It would seem that the years and millions of Dollars of development by both Government and Industry that went into Phase IV are now for naught.
“Congress has ordered that we can’t develop any new systems,” Odierno said. “Well, we have two, right now: the one that we’re wearing every day, and then the one that we use in Afghanistan. So, what’s the next step in how we transition? When do we start? Now, we want it to be as cost-neutral as possible.”
Instead of adopting a family of camouflage patterns for arid, transitional and woodland environments as planned in Phase IV, the Army is now set to forego the woodland and arid environmental patterns in order to field the solitary transitional OCP. It’s a compromise caused by inaction that has turned the most comprehensive camouflage study in history into no more than a report on a shelf. And while OCP is a fine pattern, the Phase IV winner performed better, offered more options and came with an inexpensive enterprise-wide license to print as much as they need. The make-it-up-as-they-go plan to transition to OCP on the other hand is more expensive and leaves the Army with a less advanced transitional pattern and no specialized patterns for desert and jungle.
Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing personally against GEN Odierno. But had the Army announced their winner when originally planned (June 14th), this all would have been water under the bridge. But instead, they hemmed and hawed themselves into a corner. It’s a situation that will cost them more to get less.
Double D Armory Ltd. Introduces PenCott patterns In A Mil-Spec Hard Coat Anodized Finish
Friday, December 27th, 2013
Double D Armory has announced that they will be offering both individual parts and fully-constructed rifles with a mil-spec hard coat anodized finish in the following PenCott patterns: GreenZone, SnowDrift, SandStorm, and BadLands. To celebrate, Double D is offering a pre-sale discount on complete rifles. The patterns will be available as an option during the pre-sale.
ODG Camo Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
Tuesday, December 24th, 2013
Here, you can see how Orion Design Group’s Lupus transitional pattern works in conjunction with the arid Vipera pattern. The photo was taken at Beyond by the machine that goes “ping”. Rumor has it that we’re going to see some cool stuff coming in the ODG patterns soon.
