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It's a big deal in sniper circles because of 6.5 Creedmore and some other 6mm used in gas guns to which gives you a semi-automatic weapon that can effectively pound out to 1000m with ease (at the expense of notoriously short barrel life and expensive ammo). But honestly, 5.56 and 7.62...

No one in NATO seems to be planning on departing from 5.56 and 7.62 any time soon. Also to note is that the Royal Marines are also getting a whole swath of kit on top of their new rifles: BNVD-Fs, clip on thermal imagers (because sure I2 is cool and all, but thermal/fusion is the new standard...

Oddly enough, they have designed their courseware to take suitable candidates from zero to 100 with an almost BMQ/SQ like (without the yelling and theatrics) package of instruction on small arms, marksmanship, fieldcraft and small unit tactics. They have also done this for a while, a good chunk...

I agree with you, you have your immediate/emergency loads ready to go and then your administrative load for bombing up your expended immediate mag pouches and stowing partials/empties during the lulls in the engagement or at the consolidation; but we need to be able to quantify a doctrinal...

All of that before you toss in terrain, weather/climate, sleep/diet and how far they moved to come under contact. It's a fun life. I forget the unit that the AAR belonged to, but there was a US Army Light Infantry battalion attached to a SOTF made up of a SEAL platoon, a handful of ODAs and...

So, a common myth with plate carriers, they can actually offer greater ballistic protection from both fragmentation and high velocity threats if configured correctly... they also cover the critical vitals much better if also worn correctly (the issued frag vest doesn't actually hold the...

I know it seems like there is a huge gap in protection with the high cuts, but the difference is pretty marginal especially if you're looking at the big name products from Ops-Core/Gentex, Galvion/Revision, and Team Wendy with how their shells are shaped. Additionally, if fragmentation is a huge...

Lightweight effective load carriage equipment (which can actually carry the doctrinal fighting load stated in the Inf Sect & Pl Operations BGL would be nice); lightweight ballistic armour carriers with plates (enough of which to issue to pers and scalable so commanders can scale the level of...

Always fun seeing our peers with vastly better equipment, even more fun when you realize they've had that for while (as for the better part of a decade). But honestly, the IUR/MRR are a pain in the ass to clean and are notoriously front heavy; and, there are plethora of commercially available...

To bring everything to within the last decade: coaching is barely touched on during Weapons Det Member (IBMG + AGLS if you do it all split up), it's something mentioned in the MLP but not really expanded upon during PLQ, and ISCC is currently far too condensed to even give it any consideration...

Sweet, do you happen to know the NSN or make? Because I'm at the point where I was just going to call up TEA and see if they had anything since they supplied the V60 kits for my buddy's unit at JBLM.

From what I've seen in Pet is we've stripped everything off except the radio, V60 control box / PTT and dudes were making use of civ-ATAK. With the third stage of ISSP in swing delivering the newer Harris radios you're kind of stuck with the V60 PTT since it hard to find a commercially available...

As far as the system operator, I feel that would a heavily contextualized role like having a sect signaller, but it would be something I would have to play with. But yeah, there's just way too much shit crammed into the 163 that I'll never end up using and that's before you get into all the...

The Brits are droping Bowman (and it's not compatible with ATAK from what I've been told) and are moving to the PRC-163s like we are, but I surmise they're following the USMC model are probably looking to push a lot of unmanned assets down to the section (whether that is actually going to happen...

Any DWR spray along with proper care and cleaning will make it bearable when static in light showers or when using it in the winter, but the materials and construction of the CADPAT rain jacket preclude it from being water proof unfortunately.

While I don't know how this discussion veered into this domain, I will say this: We do not posses the most proficient infanteers (in mech, motorized, or light role context) in NATO, we have a ridiculous number institutional knowledge gaps from the Pte/Cpl level all the way up to the Comd of any...

The new Arctic Operations Advisor course is way more tactical than its predecessors. The 150km advance to contact is a doozy.

Issued headlamps too!

You say validated light infantry, I say we identified a lot of short falls in training, equipment and logistics... the 3RCR AAR was interesting and the TLDR of it was this: if SFAB wasn't there we wouldn't have even been as marginally useful as we were to the BCT getting validated. Side note...

Figures blousing's a concern: low blousing has been a thing for a while fellas (the ECUs were designed with that in mind nine years ago), especially so when the majority of dudes wear lower cut boots in garrison to start. If that isn't good enough, just look how British it is. Outside of that...