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TAD Gear Bandoleer
June 4thIn a departure from standard first or second-line gear, the TAD Gear Bandoleer is an over-the-shoulder MOLLE platform designed to organize and transport equipment in a low profile, quickly deployed system. It’s meant to be a rapid-deploy, grab and go platform when a full rig isn’t needed or there isn’t time to put one on.
ITW/Down East Inc FASTmag
March 24thBack in June of ‘07, I got a heads up from Justin at Down East Inc, of a Marine Corps solicitation for their ILBE pouches. One of these was for a 30-round M16/M4 Speed Reload pouch. The product developed by Down East Inc and marketed primarily by ITW Military Products was the FASTmag. However, I didn’t like it that much as I felt that it was too wide and bulky. I voiced my concerns, and Justin told me that they were already working on a revised product that addressed those issues. I decided not to do a writeup on the Gen 1 FASTmag and instead wait for the improved version. Fast forward a few months, and the Gen 2 FASTmag was debuted around the time of the ‘08 SHOT Show in February. The Gen 2 FASTmag is indeed a great improvement over the first version, and worth the wait.
Emdom-MM AK/M4 CQB Mag Pouch
January 13thHere’s another collaboration with EMDOM I’m happy to be associated with. The growing number of AK shooters out there (including me) and the lack of good AK mag pouches prompted the Emdom-MM AK/M4 CQB Mag Pouch. It’s designed to fit all 30-round AK-type magazines - AK47 (7.62mm) and 74 (5.45mm). A plus to the Emdom-MM CQB AK/M4 mag pouch is that it will also do double duty and work with M4 30-round magazines.
MAXPEDITION Monkey Combat Admin Pouch
October 14thThe Monkey Combat Admin Pouch, designed by MilspecMonkey is a multi-purpose organizer meant to be attached to the chest area of a vest or body armour. The MCAP is large enough to hold a decent amount of small items, but not so large as get in the way when mounted on the chest.
This is more of a suppliment than a full writeup to the Eagle Industries Universal Chest Rig, SKD MOLLE version, shown above. SKD Tactical is offering an all-molle version of the UCR platform. It’s not a standard Eagle offering, but exclusive to SKD. The molle version shares the same 12.5″ x 7″ panel and shoulders straps as the UCR and has the same internal compartment in the center and mesh pocket in the rear (refer to the writeup above for details). The only difference is that it has no sewn-on pockets, but a PALS grid of 14 channels x 4 rows so the user can configure the chest rig with his own pouches. It’s a simple, low-profile platform that isn’t too bulky to be worn over body armour. I’ve shown it below with the Esstac Toaster pouch and EMDOM 6o4 pistol mag pouch.
SOTECH BFRPC (MACE rig)
February 19thNew from SOTECH (Special Operations Technology) is their BLoCS (Battle Load Carry System) Front/Rear/Side Plate Carrier (product code: BFRPC). Designed as a high-mobility armoured system, the BRFPC will take soft-armour inserts and front/side/rear plates.
The designer of this rig and I were joking about the need for a more memorable name for some of SOTECH’s rigs (like the “Hellcat”), and dubbed this the ‘MACE’ (Modular Armoured Carrying Equipment) rig, as a interim nickname. Even though it’s not an official SOTECH designation and they probably won’t know what you’re referring to if you call, I’ll refer to it as the MACE rig as it’s easier to remember than ‘BRFPC’.
Eagle Universal Chest Rig (SKD version)
January 28thThis is the Eagle Industries Universal Chest Rig, SKD MOLLE version, from SKD Tactical. The UCR is an SKD-exclusive version of Eagle’s CR-PHUTV (Chest Rig, Paul Howe Universal Tactical Vest).
The CR-PHUTV has been in high demand since it was introduced in early 2005, due to it’s simplicity, great value, and versatility. It was designed by Paul Howe (a very well-respected veteran of the Army Special Forces). The original CR-PHUTV had two MBITR radio pouches on each end, but SKD Tactical had Eagle remove these, and replace them with two columns of PALS instead, to allow attachment of any MOLLE-compatible pouch that fits in that space. This further increases the versatility of this rig, as the MBITR pouches were sized rather specifically.