During IWA Helikon-Tex displayed their new products on mannequins arrayed around their stand. Each day we will showcase a different one and detail the gear.
Today is some more new gear for the ladies. A new as-yet-unnamed Women’s Shirt is paired with the Women’s Outback Tactical shorts and Tactical SnapBack Cap, both of which are also new.
During IWA Helikon-Tex displayed their new products on mannequins arrayed around their stand. Each day we will showcase a different one and detail the gear.
Day 6 brings us the popular Swagman Roll Poncho which continues to come out in more color schemes like the Desert Night Camouflage reproduction.
Insulated with Climashield, this multi-role blanket can be worn like a pool go or configured as a sleeping bag.
The FS skull is back, shouldering a recoilless Carl Gustaf, and is taking no prisoners. Who doesn’t love a good game of duck, duck, goose? Nothing spreads freedom like an 84mm. Like everything we do, this shirt is high-quality and Built for the X.
Don’t lose your head and full send to the cart before they’re gone. These are limited edition colors— offered in Laguna Yellow & Black.
Check them out now: www.first-spear.com/gustaf-t-shirt
During IWA Helikon-Tex displayed their new products on mannequins arrayed around their stand. Each day we will showcase a different one and detail the gear.
Since it’s St Patrick’s Day why not feature some green for Day 5?
All set for a patrol, this ensemble consists of MCDU Combat Shirt and Pants with a CPU Hat and Guardian Chest Rig.
The MCDU Pants are new for this year.
The new PYTHON BOONIE REVERSIBLE G1 from Phantomleaf is completely reversible, using their WASP II Z3A and Z2 patterns.
There are loops on the boonie to add PYTHON LEAVES G1 and natural material. Additionally, the brim edge is asymmetric in order to create different shadows.
The products in the PYTHON line are made from their proprietary material: very lightweight but very durable, quiet, FR, completely NIR, fast drying / low water absorption, small packsize, dense woven: mechanical barrier for biting insects and less snagging with vegetation.
Available now from www.recon-company.com.
More Info at www.phantomleaf.de
During IWA Helikon-Tex displayed their new products on mannequins arrayed around their stand. Each day we will showcase a different one and detail the gear.
Day 4’s Assaulter is clas head to toe in MultiCam Black.
The mannequin is wearing an MBDU Shirt and Trousers made from ripstop NYCO along with the Cobra Battle Belt and Competition Inner Belt as well as their Training Mini Rig.
Although his helmet is equipped with a cover, it is a one-off made in the prototype shop to finish off the gear. Instead, Direct Action, Helikon-Tex’s mission oriented gear brand offers helmet covers.
Hamilton Montana-based 0241 Tactical will soon be taking orders for their next round of “Smock-lites” and “Tactical Operators Pullovers”. The most recent batch was spoken for almost immediately — which is why you should be watching for release announcements on their social media if you want one.
The process goes like this:
They take orders for 10 garments. Once orders for 10 jackets have been taken, they pause order availability until that run has been completed and shipped. Then the “books” are opened once more.
Why are sales of jackets only open periodically?
Such constraints are dictated by practical considerations of manpower vis-à-vis the wide array of possible camouflage pattern combinations (See below.)
0241 Tactical explains further,
“We are a small shop with limited production quantities. Allowing customers to choose features (colors, linings, etc.) requires a unique approach to how we sell jackets. To offer made-to-order Tactical Operator Pullovers and Smock-Lites in a wide variety of colors and patterns we needed to approach sales differently. We are forced to regulate the number of jackets ordered to the number of jackets shipped.
When a jacket is ordered it’s added to the bottom of the production list. When a jacket is shipped it is taken off the top of the list (the top of the list being the oldest order by date) and every order then moves up the list towards the top of the production list. When we open orders, they are added to the bottom but move up daily towards the top as each jacket ships moves the next jacket to the top.”
As you can see, it’s a constant rotation of new orders coming in once others go out, but in blocks of limited numbers.
Shop online here: www.0241tactical.com/s/shop; the jackets will not be accessible to browsing until they open those particular garments back up for order availability.
The smock is literally a concept unlike anything we have in the US. I’ve heard them compared to the M65 field jacket but that idea is simply uninformed. A smock isn’t just a coat.
Rather, the smock is much more than a simple jacket. In addition to use as clothing, the smock is also intended to carry much, if not all of the wearer’s fighting load. They were originally envisioned to carry several days of combat equipment including rations, ammunition, and radios.
More at: Blast from the Past: the Story of Smocks.
As you can see, they have a wide variety of niche and typically hard-to-find patterns available. And these aren’t hte only ones available.
Some of the camo patterns available at 0241 Tactical.
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During IWA Helikon-Tex displayed their new products on mannequins arrayed around their stand. Each day we will showcase a different one and detail the gear.
Helikon-tex is working to expand their clothing designed specifically for women and an day 3, we’ve got a sampling.
This the new Squall Women’s Hardshell paired with Hoyden Range Leggings and the Shooting Time Trucker cap. The shirt is the women’s UTL Polo Shirt.
