Could the UKs new body armor look any more ridiculous?
Fucking UK man I'm killing myself over here!
>>29490720
No way this is out the prototype stage.
>>29490720
gotta have some room for gum when you got them third degree bookey gurns innit m8
>>29490720
Did the MoD cut half of a chavs scooter helmet off to form this?
they need to find a way to move helmet weight off the spine and onto the shoulders.
>>29490720
Nine out of ten goofy shit things never happen and die in the prototype stage or start the next goofy project.
>>29490720
>body armor?
Do you mean the helmet dickhead.
It's not like we haven't been designing retarded helmets for years.
>>29490720
We HALO nao
When will they fucking discover that the gorget exists since the fucking middle age ?
>>29490720
Question about PLCE. Is there a huge difference between styles? I'd like to get some to try out. But there's this one that's $136 and another set that looks to have two fewer GP pouches that's only $78. I just can't tell what the difference is aside from the number of pouches.
>>29490720
Daily reminder that 90% on injuries are on legs and genitals from IEDs.
More ballistic boxers instead of this.
>>29490720
>BFA camouflaged
What a mad man!
>>29490832
spectra fiber undies don't make for cool sci fi promotional material.
they can't get more people to join the military. If people don't think they will be ODST.
>>29490720
>Not going full Spartan or Roman legionnaire
Plebs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHv_tl_p1c8
>>29490726
Yuuup it is. It's called Virtus - someone I know was issued it for an exercise that 3 RIFLES were doing with the US Airborne in Louisiana.
Apparently it's comfy as fuck - first time he didn't have to mess with the helmet to make it usable, and the body armour is decent too. Obviously you don't wear the face mask unless you're manning a turret or something.
And here I am still using a fucking mk. 6...
Nothing wrong with it apart from the face protection, but that will only ever be used on vehicles anyway so who cares? Good to have if you don't want a facefull of shit actually.
MOLLE plate carriers are always going to look dumb with no pouches on.
>>29490720
>any more ridiculous?
Meanwhile, somewhere in Munich
>>29490831
PLCE-style webbing is pretty varied now, with various companies trying to keep it up to date. Where are you getting it from and is it for a serious purpose or just cutting about the woods?
![1113762959[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rfvbu4X.jpg "1113762959[1].jpg")
>>29490912
>>29490904
until you herniate a disc in your neck. requiring neurosurgery and titanium plates and screws.
>>29490720
He's a big guy.
>>29490912
they both hate there lives
>>29490888
I know what you mean when you say 3 Rifles, but I still get a giggle imagining you guys crating up three individual L85s and shipping them to Louisiana
If it works but looks stupid, it's not stupid
>>29490720
looks a bit oversize innit
>>29490720
Tint the visor black and you people would be slobbering all over it.
>>29490925
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MILITARY-MTP-WEBBING-BRITISH-ARMY-PLCE-POUCH-AIRBORNE-ASSAULT-CADET-PARA-MARINES-/231769627771?hash=item35f68bdc7b:g:iLMAAOSw1vlUuXBI
Could potential replace my FLC as my weekend warrior get up.
>>29490912
Nice kettle helmets.
http://soldiersystems.net/2015/09/22/source-vagabond-virtus/
This is a more balanced look at it.
What will really happen:
- Squads will cut off that weight distribution system, say it's 'gay', and carry shit they way they always have, for better or worse this will happen.
- People will stop buying battle belts and conventional webbing because of that MOLLE belt, they'll just put their own pouches on it
- OR they won't use it at all and just stick everything on the plate carrier
- OR use both depending on what they're doing
- No one but REMFs, officer and foreign/commonwealth guys will use any issued daysack because they already have Talons and Motherlodes. Dumbasses will probably try to sell the issued daysack to airsofters on ebay.
- No one will be allowed to use the visor or jaw protector because it will be labeled gay UNLESS you're on topcover or commanding somewhere dusty like Sailsbury Plain
- Everyone will welcome the new helmet because it can't be worse than Mk7
>>29490912
Everyone shit talks the helmet but I just wonder if they can even move their arms
>>29490912
What the fuck is the point of those capes anyway?
>>29490726
>>29490770
>>29490720
Face shields have existed for years you fucking retards
>>29491057
Protecting body sides from bullets going through shoulders and area near underarm.
>>29490720
>>29490770
>>29490726
Gunner face shields aren't new or useless. You've just outed yourselves as complete ignoramuses.
>>29490912
Am I the only one who saw this and thought of Sontarans from Dr Who?
>>29490970
That's power projection right there.
>>29491106
Reminded me of the wounder officer in the Hyvinkää shooting. Didn't she have a rooftop rifle round go down through her torso or something? Something like fifty surgeries.
>>29490831
usually down to preference, some are sewn onto the back padding of the belt and also a vast difference in quality in the material anything less than £100 is usually a bit wank. You're usually best off making your own.
>>29491052
Not a soft gay gorget, a rigid one that will make efficient facial ballistic protection a reality.
>>29490720
commence banepost
>>29490720
FFS, when are they going to learn to make 270 Degree Peripheral Vision a thing? I get that you want to protect your jaw, but thats one inch thick bulletproof glass.
The thing that gets me is that there is no armor for the neck, knees or elbows that isn't complete crap, even sealing pads are stiff and restrictive.
I mean honestly, you're going to have to be prepped for sarin eventually, and that shit'll eat straight through your GI fatigues
>>29490957
For you
>>29490737
take a bump from my key
>>29490720
Surely that's not standard issue
Getting closer to perfection.
>>29490808
Goddamn. It's like a cross between the wwII German helmet, and a stormtrooper helm.
I kinda like it.
You don't know rediculous armor until you see Canadian R&D shit.
>design a new helmet
>make it twice the size and weight as the issued helmet
>slap on detachaple shrapnel protective flap for the neck
thing is so fucking big you can't use the C79 scope with it, that's why the dude in pic has a nigger-rigged optic set-up.
>>29495649
>be inna canadian infantry
>using current issue helmet
>neck hurts after wearing NVGs for 8-10 hours
>chinstrap murders my chin
>NVGs push ballistics against my nose really hard
trudeau pls gib budget
>>29490808
Looks like the MP helmet from Reach.
>>29495720
>wearing ballistics with NVG's
Don't do that unless you got the single-eye version.
>>29495774
MonocularNVGs are what we're issued. Pretty sure only JTF2 or CSOR get the fancy shit.
>>29495800
My Reserve unit has 12 of the single-eye versions, we broke or "lost" the regular shit.
>>29495720
>trudeau pls gib budget
hahahahahAHAHAHAH
fucking libs pushed back 3 billion dollars meant for new equipment. Though they are doing the same thing the tories have done so I guess its not something one party would do. Though with them saying they won't balance the budget I wonder why they couldn't have bitten the bullet and released some procurement funds.
Only good thing is that they're setting up a separate committee to oversee procurement (the hope is that it is a-political)
>>29490720
what's a cheekweld?
>>29495720
You can go highspeed and put a counterweight on the back to balance out the NVGs from killing your neck.
Also get an aftermarket chinstrap.
>>29497248
Don't need one on a mounted gun
