Policemen beat government employees during a protest against the government in Srinagar, the summer capital Indian Kashmir, 23 August 2007.Police detained hundreds of employees as they made repeated attempts to reach the State assembly in response to a call given by Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) to press for its demands

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FN303

Eigentlich nur eine Paintballknifte auf Steroide, oder?

Nicht Steoride sondern Pfeffer oder Tränengas.

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Indigenous Counter Insurgency Force, check point in Al Namer, Iraq, Aug. 19, 2007
Man beachte die reflektierenden Gürtel zu Kenntlichmachung.

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Stopping the burn

Soldiers in the war zone — or headed there — will get fire-resistant clothing
By Matthew Cox - mcox@militarytimes.com
Posted : May 07, 2007

Soldiers fighting overseas will soon wear the Army Combat Shirt — a fire-resistant pullover to be worn beneath body armor.

The new shirt’s digitized camouflage sleeves resemble those on the Army Combat Uniform, but the torso area is made of a foliage-green-colored knit fabric with a form-fitting cut.

In addition to the combat shirt, all soldiers serving in theater will also receive new fire-resistant ACUs.

The new uniform items are made of a special fire-resistant rayon fabric that’s just as effective but cooler than the traditional Nomex fabric used in FR uniforms, said Steve Pinter, deputy project manager for soldier equipment.

PEO Soldier recently sent 100 Army Combat Shirts to theater so soldiers could evaluate the shirt’s comfort and special features, said Maj. Clay Williamson, assistant product manager for clothing and individual equipment.

After the final tweaks are made, PEO Soldier plans to start fielding the new shirt in July, he said.

The Army plans to ship from 250,000 to 300,000 sets of the ensemble to theater, enough to outfit every soldier, equipment officials say. However, commanders will decide how many sets each soldier will receive.

“Everybody will get it, but some will get more than others,” Pinter said.

But in January, the Army began shipping more than 160,000 Nomex uniforms to theater for soldiers assigned to convoy operations. The move was made in response to a September 2006 “operational needs statement” from Coalition Forces Land Component Command. The interim fix was an attempt to reduce the number of convoy soldiers suffering burns from roadside bombs.

The fire-resistant ACUs look the same as regular ACUs but are made of fire-resistant rayon fabric. While the fabric will burn, it is slower than cotton to ignite, which gives soldiers more time to escape an attack or blast area before clothing materials catch fire.

“It’s not fireproof,” Pinter said of the material. “It buys you time to get out of that environment, be it a burning vehicle or an IED flash flame.”

The fire-resistant properties of the ACUs do not allow air movement as well as the cotton-nylon version does and therefore are hotter to wear. The Army Combat Shirt, though fire resistant, does not provide as much protection as the fire-resistant ACUs because it is designed to breathe and wick moisture. The combat shirt is to be worn under body armor, without the ACU blouse.

Army equipment officials are fielding the new shirt to address the “heat stress soldiers face in theater,” Pinter said.

The sleeves of the combat shirt, because they are exposed, are more fire-resistant than the torso area. They feature special elbow pads made of a �-inch-thick fire-resistant foam pad, encased in an anti-abrasion cover. It has zippered pockets on the upper arms, covered with Velcro for attaching insignia.

The body of the shirt sports a stretchy knit fabric. The Army’s recruiting slogan, “Army Strong,” is centered on the chest in black lettering beneath a black Army star logo.

Panels of the more protective sleeve fabric are sewn into each side of the torso to give soldiers more underarm protection.

The new uniform items don’t require any special care, so soldiers can wash them just like their ACUs, equipment officials said.

Army equipment officials tested the combat shirt, and the fire-resistant ACUs were tested using a thermal mannequin at the University of North Carolina known as “Pyroman,” Williamson said.

The uniform items were subjected to “industrial torching” for short periods with flames fed by JP-8 jet fuel.

Scientists measured the effect of flames and heat on the uniform items through sensors in the mannequin. Equipment officials would not discuss specific test details but said they were confident the new garments would give soldiers improved protection against fire hazards on the battlefield.

Firefighters wear clothing that’s much more protective against heat and flames, but those special suits are not designed for continuous wear on the battlefield, Army equipment officials say.

“It is too heavy, too hot; it’s bulkier and it wouldn’t be operationally suitable for a combat environment,” Pinter said.

The Army is working on a Fire Resistant Environmental Ensemble — an experimental effort to create a high-tech, multilayer cold-weather clothing system specifically designed to meet the needs of aviators, tankers and fuel handlers. Uniform officials said the effort is designed to give these soldiers in specialized jobs the same type of modern cold-weather gear the rest of the Army is about to begin receiving with the newly approved Generation III Extended Cold Weather Clothing System.

The fire-resistant gear that begins fielding in June also includes FR gloves and a balaclava. All soldiers deploying to theater already receive the FR gloves through the Rapid Fielding Initiative. Since January, the Army has fielded enough FR balaclavas for every soldier in theater, Pinter said.

It’s called Flame-Resistant Operational Gear, or FROG, and it includes new gloves, balaclava, long-sleeve undershirt, cammy tops and bottoms. Put together, FROG will “significantly reduce the risk” of burn injuries to Marines operating in harm’s way, SysCom officials say.

[...]

The FROG ensemble is scalable, meaning commanders can determine the level of fire protection each Marine will wear for a given mission, Hernandez said, much in the same way that Marines dressed in MOPP 1, MOPP 2, etc., four years ago.

SysCom officials refer to the standard combat utility uniform as FROG 0. In FROG 1, the Marine, instead of wearing his standard green undershirt, wears a long-sleeve shirt under his cammies. FROG 1 also includes a hinge-stitched balaclava that allows the wearer to cover and uncover his nose and mouth without removing his helmet, and a set of gloves just like the aviators wear, only with better stitching, Hernandez said.

“It’s not more flame-retardant than flight gloves, but it’s more durable,” he said.

The higher level of protection — FROG 2 — replaces the utility uniform’s blouse and trousers with “enhanced combat shirt and trousers” made from a blend of synthetic fibers that will “self-extinguish” if ignited, Hernandez said. Another plus: The poly-fiber blend makes the shirt’s sweat-wicking torso cooler on hot summer patrols than the standard cammies.

[...]

The FROG items are intended to replace the flight suits that some Marines have been wearing outside the wire after burn protection became a concern in late 2005. Early last year, Maj. Gen. Richard Zilmer, who then commanded I Marine Expeditionary Force’s forward element in Iraq, banned Marines from wearing certain commercially available sweat-wicking undershirts into battle because they melt and drip when exposed to flames.

Warum tragen die Schiffsbesatzungen im Gefecht alle(?) immer Nomexhauben?

@imi uzi
genau mein style

du meinst Schutzwesten
der eine ist einfach grösser und voluminöser, daher zieht es ihm die Schutzweste etwas höher, mehr nicht....

insofern, ja modular, denn n Bierbauch kann jederzeit an- und abgebaut werden

morgen
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nikko

sind die 2 mit den schwarzen balken auf der brust etwas spezieller?
tschechen

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sind die 2 mit den schwarzen balken auf der brust etwas spezieller?
tschechen

Beides SOG (Omega). Beim Zweiten-> siehe patch: Bild: http://www.specwar.info/specialni_sily/SOG_Omega/znak.jpg (Bild automatisch entfernt)