Remember this kick ass photo of a Mayflower customer?
Turns out, he is Finnish and works for Ase Utra Oy, a sound suppressor manufacturer. They’ve recently updated their website.
Check it out! www.aseutra.fi
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Ase Utra Sound Suppressors
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012SORD Smock in MultiCam and A-TACS AU
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012To order your smock visit www.sordusa.com
SPARTAN.AT – KSK spielt mit Crye
Sunday, February 19th, 2012German language gear blog SPARTAN.AT took a couple of Seul Military Consulting‘s photos and broke them down detailing the equipment seen in each. It’s some of the best of the best including Crye and Ops-Core. A good translation of the title would be, “KSK Rolls With Crye”.
My favorite line is the last one in the article. “Ausrüstung am Boden aufgelegt: CAGE, BLAST-Belt und alles was gut und teuer ist. or Equipment put on the floor: CAGE, BLAST Belt and everything that is good and expensive.”
Check it out at spartanat.wordpress.com. You might need to use translate.google.com.
Canada Releases ISSP RFP
Friday, February 17th, 2012Early this week, the Department of National Defence of Canada released a Request for Proposals for their next generation Soldier system. According to DND, “Integrated Soldier System Project will provide the soldier with an integrated suite of equipment that includes weapon accessories, electronic devices, sensors, individual equipment and operational clothing. This soldier system will significantly increase soldier performance, as soldiers and low-level command centres will seamlessly share data and voice communications through a network. This capability will facilitate effective and timely interaction. As a result, soldiers will have more comprehensive situational awareness, real-time tactical information and greater synchronization of activity.” What we’ve got here is a classic Soldier digitization program straight out of the 90s. It is another attempt to integrate sensors and comms onto the Soldier as a platform in order to increase Situational Awareness which will result increased survivability and lethality.
Diagram – Canada DND
They intend to award two contracts to one successful bidder. According to the RFP these two contracts consist of:
“The first contract, called the ISS Acquisition Contract will be over an approximate period of four (4) years and will consist of a qualification of the ISS and then, if successfully qualified, the purchase of a firm quantity of ISS in pre-determined batches totaling one thousand six hundred (1,600) units as complete system along with associated preliminary Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) such as technical documentation, training and initial provisioning of spares, with the option to purchase, in multiple parts, optional quantities up to an additional five thousand twenty four (5,024) ISS-Suites as complete system or component by component.
The second contract, called the ISS Optimized Weapon System Support Contract, will be for the ISS In-Service Support and Improvement Activities over a period of five (5) years plus 3 two-year irrevocable options allowing Canada to extend the term of the Contract.”
Potential offerors have until 2012-04-18 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Saving Time EDT to submit their proposals. The ISSP RFP is available on Merx, the Canadian equivalent of FedBizOpps.
Novatiq Scorp Available From SPECOPS.PL
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Swiss firm Navatiq has developed a new compact Unmanned Ground Vehicle called the Scorp which can pull double duty as a recce as well as EOD asset. It is a lightweight (~2.5 kg), throwable bot that boasts day/night 360° omnidirectional panoramic vision via 4 cameras mounted 1 per side. As you can see from the photo below, it also incorporates a built in microphone as well as Picatinny rails to mount additional accessories or sensors. Planned enhancements include biochemical detector, disruptor, encryption, manipulator with pincer, autonomous navigation, firing explosive charges, thermal imaging, etc.
The tracked Scorp also features articulating flipper arms to right itself in the event of a tumble or to aid in climbing. The control unit offers full recording capability as well as a range of 500 meters outdoors (line of sight) and 100 meters indoors (line of sight). Additionally, by utilizing alternative frequencies you can operate up to four robots within the same zone.
The Scorp is now available from the Polish form SPECOPS.
PenCott Camo in New Zealand
Thursday, February 16th, 2012Hyde Definition, creators of the PenCott family of camouflage patterns sent these photos of a fan wearing their GreenZone pattern. He didn’t camouflage his face or arms so you could see him.
The Faces of Seul Military Consulting
Saturday, February 11th, 2012For many of us, the face of a company is their catalog. Here are the covers of our German friends, Seul Military Consulting‘s catalogs.
Eltics “Black Fox” Thermal Mimicry System
Sunday, February 5th, 2012The Israeli defense technology firm Eltics recently released an interesting video explaining Black Fox, an “active, adaptive multi-spectral 
stealth technology” that does “thermal image shaping”, built to act as a sort of cloak for armored vehicles. Not necessarily an invisibility/chameleon cloak, per se, but something that allows the vehicles to look like something else, i.e. to make a Humvee look like an Abrams, or an Abrams look like an M1078 LMTV.
This isn’t the first time such measures have been taken. Similar static systems have been used by Tactical Deception organizations for many years. However, this is the first time we have seen this technology applied to a mobile platform. Such mimicry or ‘disinformation’ has obvious tactical advantages (or even strategic: remember Patton’s fake army prior to Operation Overlord?).
This is an Eltics video posted by Defense Update.
-DR
