Infantry Combat Equipment (non-firearm): Vests, Body Armor, NVGs, etc.

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
It never make any sense to begin even, even back in WW2 when IFF technologies were much more primitive. Soldiers don't go around dressed up like they are ready for a Halloween party.
And there is a reason for that, because the French army in World war one came in wearing Navy Blue coats and Bright Red pants for uniforms and took massive losses at the Battle of the Frontiers because of it and poor training. They moved to a more blue grey plate and Khaki mustard for the desert.
By world war 2 every one had seen the bloodletting of the First world war and realized that bight colors though fine for Fancy dress had no place when bullets started flying.
Now, let's see if the rumoured new camo rollout - the so-called "Type 15 camo", a spin-off based on Multicam - actually going to happen next month as speculated.

Multicam is popular because it is a transitional pattern and works well in urban and Desert as well as arid tropics. Of course like M81 woodland it's become the worlds pattern.

heck just moving to one of the other patterns in service would work. perhaps not Highland but universal or even woodland. Really though it never made a lot of sense to issue special patterns to this unit or that. I mean yes they earned special markings or special status but in the end the combat uniform is not supposed to be there for fancy dress it's supposed to be worn in battle or daily wear. As the US has had to relearn the fact is a Combat uniform is not supposed to be advertising it's supposed to be a survival tool. If you want an IFF feature just have them all dress like PLA because eventually that beachhead that they are supposed to be making jobjed is going to have PLA units landing in support when that happens you are going to have other units mixing in not wearing the Smurfs. Same for the Airborne which has even less rational going on.
 

Dfangsaur

Junior Member
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Equipment provided by private company 红隼防务公司.
Looking pretty good
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Infantryman spades are a jack of all trades. Dig a fighting position, cook a meal, put out a fire, fill sandbags, dig a latreen, burry something, make shift weapon.
 

MwRYum

Major
Them infantry sure do love their shovels now do they ?
"It's dangerous to go alone, take this."
Sure while a "6 inch blade never loose reception", but a sharpened spade has proven, in both World Wars, to be a far more versatile CQC weapon...to say the very least, a blade / bayonet needs a good deal of training before mastering its use, but a spade? Bashing the other guy's brainbox open is hardwired into humanity's DNA...
 
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