Custom Gear Report

While reading one of our favorite blogs, Soldier Systems, I came across an article about the “Travel Shirt”. Apparently the owner of Beyond Tactical came up with it and has been wearing around for a while now. There’s a photo in the article and I must say, I’m not feeling it. Looks a little too feminine to me.

For starters I’m not a big fan of “tactical clothing” for everyday wear to begin with, I get a kick out of the SHOT Show uniform every time I go. But this doesn’t even go in that direction, I can’t put my finger on it I think it kinda reminds me of something out of early 90’s Europe with a touch of tactical by way of sleeve pockets, maybe Germany in a “touch my monkey” kinda way?

Anyway, for those of you that might be more in touch with your feminine side (of course you will say “secure in your manhood”), Beyond apparently has said if there’s enough interest they will produce it for the masses.

This article is not meant to be a dig on Beyond they make great stuff, but this shirt was just too much fun to pass up. You of course can form your own opinion.

Soldier Systems and PEO Soldier have written articles about the Army’s move to allowing Soldiers to camo their weapons after they get the thumbs up from Command.

Well if you were interested in seeing how the Army wants it’s personnel to go about it, check out their handy little guide. Wonder if this will become an EIB task at some point?

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.

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.