Good Guys in BadLands®

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Over the past few months we’ve been fortunate to have been able to contribute to the creation of some great marketing imagery produced by the crew at TacGas and Deliberate Dynamics International.

The work we’ve been involved with has been content that TacGas produced for clients such as Tactical Tailor, Grey Ghost Precision, Dark Angel Medical, FNH USA, and Desert Tech.  Here’s a gallery of great BadLands® images – featuring the brands listed above, as well as our partners from UF PRO and UR Tactical.  Enjoy!

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SNOWDRIFT® SEEING ACTION IN THE ARCTIC?

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The high Arctic is a region untouched by war.

Until now.

A mysterious weapon is stolen from a Russian facility by an equally elusive foe. With America under attack, the only chance to recover the weapon falls to Deckard and Samruk International in what quickly becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse in the Arctic Circle.

Available on Amazon now!

Jack Murphy is a New York Times best selling author and an Army Special Operations veteran who served as a Sniper and Team Leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a Senior Weapons Sergeant on a Military Free Fall team in 5th Special Forces Group.

Murphy is the New York Times Bestselling author of REFLEXIVE FIRE, TARGET DECK, and DIRECT ACTION. He also co-authored the non-fiction work, BENGHAZI: THE DEFINITIVE REPORT which exploded the true story behind what really happened when the US consulate in Libya came under attack.

Having left the military in 2010 after serving three combat deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, he graduated with a BA in political science from Columbia University. He has penned numerous non-fiction articles about Weapons, Tactics, Special Operations, Terrorism, and Counter-Terrorism. He has appeared in documentaries, on national television, and on syndicated radio.

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GreenZone® in action – Rumble in the Jungle…

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We were recently honored to be included in a photo shoot in the Florida Everglades with a great selection of awesome tactical brands. 

Helikon-Tex kindly supplied the uniforms and boonie hats, and Tactical Tailor provided all the load carrying equipment.

Helikon-Tex are also now offering special discounted pricing of 132 EUR per set on all PenCott camouflage Combat Patrol Uniforms (as seen in the photos below).  Visit their website, or contact your favorite Helikon-Tex dealer for further details.

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Thanks to the pros at TacGas and Deliberate Dynamics (DDI) who were a pleasure to work with and who produced such great results!TacGas and DDI also produced this kick-ass video from the event too. Read more →

UP CLOSE LOOK: Sedran Colonial Guard – ‘HALO: Nightfall’

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Whether you’re a fan of HALO or not, there is a lot to enjoy in ‘HALO: Nightfall’.  Of particular interest for us is that the Sedran Colonial Guard force in the movie wear battle dress uniforms in PenCott-BadLands™ camouflage pattern.  So we did some research and made some screen-grabs to give you a closer look.

Insignia of the Sedra Colonial Guard. Image created by Sal of halofanforlife.comInsignia of the Sedra Colonial Guard. Image created by Sal of halofanforlife.com

The Sedran Colonial Guard is the primary military force of the remote Outer Colony of Sedra and is led by Colonel Randall Aiken, a former elite SPARTAN-II super-soldier. Many soldiers in the Sedran Colonial Guard are well-motivated and dedicated to the defense of their homeworld – as Private First Class Talitha Macer explains at one point; “We’ve lived in a state of perpetual war, surrounded by enemies. We were born fighting.”

Colonel Aiken 1Considering the temperate forested terrain of Sedra however, perhaps GreenZone™  would have been a more appropriate choice of camouflage…

Nightfall_-_Sedran_forestForested terrain around Sedra City on planet Sedra. (source: Halopedia)

The ‘HALO: Nightfall’ costume department created a distinctive look for the Sedran Colonial Guard troops by using BadLands™  Combat Patrol Uuniforms (CPUs) from Helikon-Tex, with a few cosmetic alterations.  For Colonel Aiken’s uniform, and also for his close protection team, they used BadLands™  CPU trousers from Helikon-Tex paired with BadLands™  ‘Einsatzkampfjacken’ (‘Operational Battle Jackets’) from Leo Koehler.  Besides some minor cosmetic changes, it also looks like the costume department ‘aged’ the uniforms with some sort of over-wash as well.

Sedran Colonial Guard forces

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FRAG OUT! magazine a media partner of IWA 2015

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Congratulations to our friends at FRAG OUT! magazine – they’ve been appointed as a media partner of IWA Outdoor Classics and Enforce Tac 2015.

Until then, check out the latest issue of FRAG OUT! online.  Features in the latest edition include:

  • HK416A5 in Action
  • FN Minimi Mk3 Gun Pr0n
  • Tactical Combat Casualty Care
  • Direct Action Gear Behind the Scenes
  • AK Assault Rifle Training Pt 3
  • NFM Arc’teryx Khard Pack Pouches Suite
  • and much more

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Click here to read

Austrian newspaper gives a rare inside look at ‘Einsatzkommando COBRA’

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Yesterday’s online and paper editions of the Austrian newspaper ‘Heute’ (Today) featured an article and photo gallery of the Austrian Interior Ministry’s anti-terrorist / special operations unit ‘Einsatzkommando COBRA’.

In the photos below, we see a two-man sniper team in their standard-issue GreenZone™ camouflage smocks and trousers from SABRE in Germany.  COBRA has been using a range of GreenZone™ camouflage clothing and equipment made by SABRE since 2012.

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Einsatzkommando (EKO) COBRA is a member unit of the ATLAS Network of European police special operations units.  EKO COBRA regularly conducts training exercises together with colleagues from Germany’s GSG9, France’s GIGN and RAID, Britain’s SCO19, and others.  Within 28 member states of the ATLAS Network, EKO COBRA is said to provide the subject matter expertise in the area of raids on buildings.

Cobra01See the full ‘Heute’ article and photo gallery online here.

The official website for EKO COBRA can be found here (in German language only).

hat tip to David Jaklin

‘HALO: Nightfall’ feature-length release

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In case you missed it on the X-Box release…

Featuring the use of Helikon-Tex CPUs in PenCott-BadLands camouflage pattern, ‘HALO: Nightfall‘ has become a feature-length film scheduled for release on March 17.  The film will be available on DVD, Blue-ray and on digital platforms – including iTunes.

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See the new trailer here…:…
http://youtu.be/xzlMwspbtsg

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Zombie Zone and SCDTV Christmas SnowDrift Competition

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This Christmas, the Elves from Zombie Zone have joined forces with the Elves from SCDTV – and those from the far north – and have prepared something very special for you…

First a little back-story…  Last Christmas Eve, Santa Claus received many disturbing signals that bad green lizard-goblins were trying to destroy Christmas.  There were dozens of reports of them robbing people’s Christmas stockings- stealing from them things like tactical folding knives, backpacks, and various other pieces of tactical and survival equipment. In the place of the stolen items they put, tight pants, razors, pink wool sweaters, perfume, flowers, and other stuff intended to make men weak…

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So, the elves from Zombie Zone and SCDTV came to the conclusion that the best Christmas stockings should be camouflaged. Together, they then set up a new headquarters and Camouflage Research Center in Lapland. Elf Dudek from SCDTV tested virtually all commercially available camouflage patterns over the next months. The winning pattern, with a success rate of evading detection 97.3% of the time was PenCott-SnowDrift™. To ensure 100% success, the ZZ/SCDTV elves added a special goblin repellent solution to the fabric.

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Unfortunately, due to the amount of time that was needed to study the surveillance footage from last Christmas, to analyze all available camouflage patterns, and develop and test the special goblin repellent, the elf team only had enough time to make 3 of these special SnowDrift™ Christmas stockings.

Two of the special stockings will remain at the Lapland HQ and Camouflage Research Center in Lapland for further study, the 3rd one will be given away in a special competition!

So, now you may well be wondering what you have to do in order to win this incredibly rare, and exceptionally effective Anti-Goblin-Camouflaged-Christmas-Stocking…  Well, its quite simple really.  Just follow this 4-step process:

1. ‘Like’ Zombie Zone on Facebook.
2. ‘Like’ SCDTV on Facebook.
3. Publish and share this post with all of your friends and connections on Facebook so that people will hide and camouflage their Christmas stockings better.  We are certain that the goblins will attack again this year….
4. Create an image / take a photo of any Zombie Zone gadget in a winter or Christmas setting and send it to them via email or in a private message on Facebook.

Zombie Zone and SCDTV will create a special folder on Facebook where you will be able to view all of the contest submissions – and at midnight on December 31st a jury of the elves will sit at a round table with Santa Claus and choose the winner!