Canadian Dismounted Infantry Capability Enhancement (DICE) programme
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Fabius
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I am not tracking any current active hearing protection having integrated ballistic protection.
Honestly I would not worry about that, I would focus on getting every DICE helmet issued equipped with currently existing COTS active hearing protection.
Notice how no one in the CA video on Facebook has any active hearing protection (minus one soldier who has it mounted but not worn. Can almost guarantee that’s privately purchased) despite the helmet cut being designed for it and the helmets all having the ARC rails to mount it.
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Not practically.
Look at it this way. It’s at least as effective as the eye pro…
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3000 set with an option for more seems like a lot. Oh well I’ll retire with the tac vest I suppose.
It may end up being a great fishing vest after you retire though...so I mean, it could end up being good for something ...
(Still can't believe we had roto after roto of folks deploying to one of the most active combat zones on Earth at the time, with combat as their mission set, wearing tac vests...)
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Remember some of the propaganda about how great they were? Like the bioscience guys saying the TacVest was designed to stay on your body if you step on an IED.
Treat yourself to one of these. It's like wearing a warm hug - just don't tell the bad guys who owns the company.
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Seems like a failry reasonable price too? No idea of course...
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Travesty…It may end up being a great fishing vest after you retire though...so I mean, it could end up being good for something ...
(Still can't believe we had roto after roto of folks deploying to one of the most active combat zones on Earth at the time, with combat as their mission set, wearing tac vests...)
I wanted to punch several of them in the head. Especially when they kept telling us we where reloading wrong and it was is that were the issue, not that it was a non viable ergonomic mess.
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…whilst wearing these…
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Are you being allowed to run it with plates in it and no frag vest, or is it the frag vest with the PC over top?
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Edit - I plead the fifth
As an aside to this the fact that training safety mandates specific pieces of equipment has always struck me as very awkward. I suppose it’s a good thing for CADTC that we only update body armour every quarter century.
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I know 3 div has issued a directive for non issued vests, its okay as long as it fits certain criteria. Great for reg force. As a reserve CSS, as much as it hate the current fishing vest, my wife would kill me if i dropped 500 on a rig.
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Anyone have any SA on when we can't expect SOCEM? I'd love to be able to retire my Tac Tailor RAC to civvie range days haha.
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More images of the proposed new chest rig and plate carrier. Everything is coyote brown for trials, the production model will be in the new CADPAT.
Canadian Army’s New Advanced Protective and Load Carriage Equipment from Logistik Unicorp | Soldier Systems Daily
In March, the Canadian Army awarded a $19.7 million (excluding taxes) to Logistik Unicorp to supply its light forces with 3,000 units of advanced protective ...
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I'd be interested to see what the yoke looks like for the webbing belt. The reality of actual full spectrum warfare indicates that large webbing belts with 24hrs of kit are by far the most effective solution for load carriage, in terms of how much a soldier can carry, their ability to get low in prone (not accessing things on their chest) and how it distributes the weight across their bodies.
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More images of the proposed new chest rig and plate carrier. Everything is coyote brown for trials, the production model will be in the new CADPAT.
Canadian Army’s New Advanced Protective and Load Carriage Equipment from Logistik Unicorp | Soldier Systems Daily
In March, the Canadian Army awarded a $19.7 million (excluding taxes) to Logistik Unicorp to supply its light forces with 3,000 units of advanced protective ...soldiersystems.net
I don’t know, while it’s better than the TacVest, I can’t help but feel that this is still 10-15 years behind where the load bearing equipment is right now, especially plate carriers.
Honestly I would rather we just went with coyote brown vs CADPAT MT. Coyote Brown would allow for use of COTS pouches. Going MT will just mean that there won’t be any COTS options that maintain a consistent color pattern.
The yoke is pictured I believe. Belt kit is good for dismounted ops, jungle etc. For anything involving vehicles it’s not great.
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looks like double mag pouches, good start but i hope 6 mags isn't the new standard, in my opinion it should be more then that, atleast for the infantry types. As a tech? sure that works for me. The ruck sack looks like an improvement over the CTS in terms of layout, hope being a commercial design the ergonomics are a lot better as well.
