any new on abu body armor?

[Dr. Strangeweird]

just out of curiosity, has anyone heard of any news in regards to new body armor and/ or helmets to match the new air force uniforms? or are they just going to use similar stuff as the army for the time being?

i've only seen the pagst vest used with the abu, or in some cases, acu otvs and such, like in the pic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgzIM-9lfA and here too



http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4816/abuacuvest2wl5.th.jpg (http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=abuacuvest2wl5.jpg)

sorry, i couldnt find a better pic, but if anyone dose, please post.

EDIT: sorry, suppose to say 'news' in the title, stupid me.

[CreepingDeath]

first of all... welcome to mp.net!

second of all... i have no idea, (sorry mate) check for some updates by clicking the search. it might probably help

[Catch22]

The Air Warrior ensemble includes a relatively simple armor carrier, holding two hard armor plates and soft ballistic inserts - from the looks of it a BALCS cut. It is designed to be worn under the Air Warrior vest that combines the functions of a tactical/equipment vest and a rescue/safety webbing.

The vest in the attached picture is standard IBA II OTV, the Air Warrior vest has no modular PALS webbing on it.

[Trouble]

just out of curiosity, has anyone heard of any news in regards to new body armor and/ or helmets to match the new air force uniforms? or are they just going to use similar stuff as the army for the time being?

i've only seen the pagst vest used with the abu, or in some cases, acu otvs and such, like in the pic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgzIM-9lfA and here too



http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4816/abuacuvest2wl5.th.jpg (http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=abuacuvest2wl5.jpg)

sorry, i couldnt find a better pic, but if anyone dose, please post.

EDIT: sorry, suppose to say 'news' in the title, stupid me.

As of now, at least. The answer is NO. There are no plans to produce gear in the ABU pattern. The AF will be issuing individual equipment in ACU/UCP camouflage pattern.

This does make one ask, then why did they bother with developing the ABU in the first place, the short answer is they wanted to feel different (i.e. distinct) , and unless we:

1) are preparing to wage war on some distant world which is covered with beach sand, along with "mint green and slate blue colored foliage"

or

2) climate change is going to be a bigger B***H than anyone is claiming.

they just wasted a lot of tax dollars on a Service-wide convention uniform.

No, the real reason is they forgot that all Airmen are not Zoom-Bag Warriors, and ignored the growing use of Airman on the ground, outside of the wire.

IMHO. If the ABU is a good pick for the new uniform than a solid color uniform would have been just fine, maybe even better, for most AF functions. Coyote Brown, for instance would have provided a level of universal "blending-in", and still look good around base.

[Desertpilot]

The Air Warrior ensemble includes a relatively simple armor carrier, holding two hard armor plates and soft ballistic inserts - from the looks of it a BALCS cut. It is designed to be worn under the Air Warrior vest that combines the functions of a tactical/equipment vest and a rescue/safety webbing.

The vest in the attached picture is standard IBA II OTV, the Air Warrior vest has no modular PALS webbing on it.

He's not asking about Air Warrior, he's asking about the USAF's Airman's Battle Uniform aka ABU.