What kind of vest is this?

[Digital Marine]

http://static.marktplaats.nl/fotos/verzamel/krijgsmacht/3/94345.jpg

Does anyone know what type this is?, pics are welcome too :)
Thanks :D

[percell_086]

isn't it the RBA (ranger body armor)?

[Digital Marine]

isn't it the RBA (ranger body armor)?
doesn't the RBA have MOLLE strips around it?

[percell_086]

hmm the new one does i think, but this is yhe old style for all i know.
percell

[ShakesFIST]

It looks like Ranger Body Armor but it doesnt have the little corner cut off where the plates go.
http://www.specwargear.com/images/armor&vest-RBA-2.jpg

[percell_086]

hhm yeah, but this is the back side i think

[flanker7]

http://www.specwargear.com/

Then go to ''X-Files''. I think you'll find what you want.

[Firefly26]

It is the back side of the RBA. The back plate is square. No MOLLE clips are on the RBAs that I have seen, and that is alot of them.

[Digital Marine]

Is it also the vest worn in Somalia?

[Firefly26]

Yeah, that's where it got its name I think.

[Digital Marine]

Yeah, that's where it got its name I think.
ok thanks woot

[James]

That's what RBA looked like 10 years ago. It is from before MOLLE.

[Sir Zach of R.]

I think the old ones had steel plates also. The newer ones use ceramic.

[Digital Marine]

i can buy the one on the picture for 90 euro that's about 111 dollar.
Is that a good deal? :)

[Uncle Sam]

I think the old ones had steel plates also. The newer ones use ceramic.

No no, young one :P . The 1-2nd gen RBA had ceramic plates.

[flanker7]

If you go to the link I posted above you will find lots if info on the RBA

[kaiser]

Is it also the vest worn in Somalia?

not exactlly, because the one used in Somalia only had the front Plate, the double(front and back) version only appaer after 1994, but some people say that their was double face RBA in Somalia 93' , but no one can confirm.