Custom Gear Report

I’ve just noticed that Zulu Nylon Gear has launched a new website deign. Our hats off to the new look. Head over to http://www.zulunylongear.com to check it out.

Speaking of Zulu, a while back they sent us the latest version of the Mega Admin pouch for review. Keep an eye out for our take on the design in the near future.

After the review is complete one of our lucky readers will have the opportunity to take possession of this fine piece of kit in a Zulu Nylon Gear sponsored give away.

Our friends up north at CP Gear sent us a note to let us know they are having a sale on all of their house brand Coyote Brown and CADPAT AR pattern gear.

CPGear has put all their branded Coyote Brown and CADPAT AR modular pouches and rigs on sale for 20% off regular price. For Canadians who are about to head overseas in the near future, this is a great opportunity during your pre-deployment period to get kitted up and save some cash in doing so. Sale ends December 15^th.

The 20% off is automatically calculated when you add a coyote or CADPAT AR item to your shopping cart.

Stop by and check’em out. http://www.cpgear.com

Earlier this year Soldier Systems posted about the quadruped robot appropriately name BIG DOG. Well it seems the engineers at Boston Dynamics have also been working on a biped named PETMAN. Here is a video of it walking on a treadmill. The “push” the tech gives the robot at :26 impressed the hell out of me. It won’t be long before you see proper droids on a battlefield near you. Not sure what this is going to do for the custom gear industry though. Boston Dynamics has some pretty cool stuff including a 6 legged bot they call RiSE that has the ability to climb vertical surfaces. Beware the rise of the machines.

For those into firearms supressors, according to and article just released on the AAC blog they have been purchased by Remington.

While Remington purchased AAC’s assets and intellectual property, initial
indications are that they have no intention of replacing AAC’s executive
staff with one of their own and that they are instead intent on expanding on
AAC’s current footprint. AAC will report to Remington’s Military Products
Division, but the leadership at AAC, including former owner Kevin
Brittingham, will remain in place and continue to function as they have in
the past.

Noted in the press release is that Remington recognizes that small arms signature reduction is going to be an element in military firearms procurement for the foreseeable future.

So sticking to our guns we’re just going to give you a quick round up of articles that are discussing the UCP Delta issue.

Defense Tech This article has a copy of an early test report pitting UCP up against Multicam and several other patterns

Soldier Systems and Another

Military.com This article was written by the same guys who runs ” Defense Tech” which is also a sub blog of Military.com)

Strike Hold

Their are problably other out there as well but we seem to be going in circles now

It appears the usual gear blog suspects are chiming in on the UCP Delta camo fiasco that we vented about yesterday.

Soldier Systems

Gear Scout

The Camo Side of Dominic Hyde

Defense Tech

I’m not going to get involved in the whole rat race on who has the latest scoop on this particular topic. My post yesterday was just to rant about the stupidity of the whole camo thing.

According to an Army Times Article the Army is going to be testing a ” new” Camouflage they have called UCP Delta. Really “Delta”, REALLY? To call this camo “new” is a bit misleading since it appears by the image provided that all they’ve done is break out Photoshop an slapped Coyote Brown onto the pattern. To beat a cliche to death it’s like slapping lipstick on a pig, a big fat it’s 2 AM and I’m drunk in the bar so what the hell, pig.

It also appears they will be issuing Crye’s Multicam to a unit as part of the test as well which I am sure has all the MC fan boys happy.

On the up side the Army may be able to use Coyote Brown a a companion color for gear, which is already issued to the USMC and in the system. Multicam also has a large COTS base to draw from.

As a former soldier the UCP pattern pisses me off because it is utter garbage, as a taxpayer it pisses me off because now we are spending money to fix a problem that should have never come to be.

This camo fiasco is ridiculous. We now have the USMC with MARPAT (Woodland and Desert), The Air Force with Digital Tiger Stripe, Navy with their new pattern plus the companion patterns for when they are working with the Marine Corps. SOCOM with AOR 1 and 2 all the rivalry that goes with that mess not to mention the other off the shelf patterns they use. Then there is the Army with the abomination they adopted and are now trying to figure out how to fix.

Hey Branches how about this, get together, come up with a pattern, quit playing “we need to be different” and get this shit over with. Oh, and stop spending my tax money reinventing the wheel.

While I wouldn’t consider Kifaru a small company they certainly have the great customer service of one. They also do custom work for their customers so they fit the scope of what we are trying to focus on here at CGR.

Some people have found it difficult or confusing to adjust the suspension system on Kifaru’s packs. Well to help you along they have decided to release a series of videos demonstrating just how to do that properly.

Here is the first:

I also recommend checking out their YouTube channel, you can view the two other vids and if you subscribe you won’t miss any others they come out with.