O’Neill Ops mix it up a bit with BadLands™ and SnowDrift™

It is very much the fashion these days to wear camouflage that’s all “matchy-matchy” – in other words, for everything from your boots to your hat and your gloves to your belt and everything in between to be in the same, perfectly matched camouflage pattern.

1467318_731603190184652_1192474712_nHowever, sometimes its good to mix things up a bit – especially in “transitional” terrain or seasons.  In these photos we see the guys from O’Neill Ops using this principle to great effect on the plains of South Dakota recently with a combination of PenCott-BadLands™ and PenCott-SnowDrift™.

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Incidentally, the camo oversuit they’re using here was developed by Hyde Definition, and is currently being produced under license by Applied Orange Performance Equipment.

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Other SnowDrift options in lightweight, water-resistant polyester and water-resistant-treated, 50/50 nylon-cotton ripstop are available from Drop Zone Tactical, Sabre, – and coming soon from Leo Koehler, Helikon-Tex and UF PRO.

UF PRO® Striker Combat Shirt – Silent Heroes Edition

This limited edition version of the UF PRO® Combat Shirt was designed and manufactured for the Silent Heroes Foundation’s Special Interdiction Unit rhino protection project. The shirt was specifically designed to provide excellent wearability, comfort and camouflage properties in the harsh South African environment. 

The sleeves are made from 50/50 NyCo ripstop BadLands camouflage fabric and are equipped with the typical Striker pocket configuration.  The moisture-wicking, quick drying torso and arm pit areas use a new Merino/COCONA® knit to provide optimum comfort and durability.  The COCONA® fibre also contain active charcoal in order to avoid bad odours.

UF PRO BadLands combat shirt

The UF PRO® air/pac® inserts in the shoulder area and D3O® Trio Mid protectors in the elbow areas provide additional wear comfort.

Priced at 75 EUROs, the Striker Combat Shirt – Silent Heroes Edition is available in limited quantities at the UF PRO webstore.

 

Good Guys wear GreenZone™

Although PenCott™ patterns are in use with a number of elite police and military special operations units, its not very often that photographs emerge of these units wearing the patterns in action.

However, last week a photograph appeared of Austria’s elite SWAT unit “Einsatzkommando COBRA” in action during the operation to apprehend a poacher who’d murdered a paramedic and 3 policemen.

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Above:  an EKO COBRA scout/sniper team prepare their equipment as armed officers surrounded, and later stormed, the farmhouse complex where the perpetrator had barricaded himself in.  The perpetrator was found dead – from a self-inflicted gun shot.  The COBRA team is wearing boonie hats, Special Forces Smocks and Sniper Trousers from SABRE.

Czech airsoft retailer moRRisCZ launches full range of PenCott™ clothing and gear

PenCott™ fans in the Czech Republic, and anyone else who can read Czech, will be happy to see that there is now a local manufacturer and retailer offering a full range of clothing and gear in PenCott™.

Visitors to the website of MorrisCZ will be able to see a complete line of GreenZone™ clothing, headgear and load-carrying gear – see examples below – as well as a full line of BadLands™ kit coming soon as well.

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It might be made for the airsoft market, but all products are made to military specifications for quality and durability – and the irony is that Czech airsofters will now have better camouflage uniforms and gear than the Czech military!

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