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MULTICAM BLACK GEAR UP WITH US AS WE TAKE TO THE SKIRMISH FIELD - PAINTED BLACK IN ASSOCIATION WITH MULTICAM: BACK BLACK IN FEATURING JASON GREEN DESIGNED FOR THE LAW ENFORCEMENT WORLD, MULTICAM BLACK IS A MODIFIED VERSION OF THE EVER POPULAR MULTICAM CAMOUFLAGE PATTERN AND THE NEWEST ADDITION TO CRYE PRECISION RANGE. Crye Precision informs us that MultiCam Black meets the particular demands of law enforcement officers, providing them with efficient urban concealment during combat operations and professional appearances afterwards. The pattern is composed of large black and dark green blotches, and smaller brown splotches spread throughout the dark grey background. With such a palette of colours, MultiCam Black compliments the existing equipment utilised by special operations units and civilian law enforcement agencies across the world. Right now also Airsoft and paintball enthusiasts may enjoy the qualities of the MultiCam Black camouflage featured in a wide range of tactical clothing, which includes, plate carriers, chest rigs and backpacks. 040 WWW.TAIWANGUN.COM 041 BACK IN BLACK GEAR UP WITH US AS WE TAKE TO THE SKIRMISH FIELD - PAINTED BLACK TO SWAT OR NOT? hardware and trained to deploy against While the public image of SWAT first became The United States National Tactical Officers threats of terrorism, for crowd control and known through the LAPD, perhaps because MULTICAM As if it needs any sort of explanitory introduction, MultiCam is a pattern well known the world over, Association definition of SWAT is: hostage situations or for that matter any of its proximity to the mass media and the MULTICAM: BACK BLACK IN but just in case you didn't knopw; MultiCam is the result of extensive development and testing "SWAT: A designated law enforcement team "high-risk" deployments. size and professionalism of the Department by both Crye and the Army. Designed to work in multiple environments (hence the name) – which whose members are recruited, selected, The Philadelphia Police Department was itself, the first actual SWAT-type operations include desert, woodland and urban. Although coming out as the top contender in the Army tests, trained, equipped and assigned to resolve the first PD to roll out a SWAT team in 1964, were conducted north of Los Angeles in the the Army decided to go with the now obsolete ACU pattern, an ever-contentious choice. critical incidents involving a threat to public which was a direct response to an alarming farming community of Delano, California. MultiCam is comprised of six colours – a dark chocolate brown, flat earth brown, Khaki, a medium safety which would otherwise exceed the increase in bank robberies. Known then as The Delano Police Department responded green, desert pink and a light grey. What makes MultiCam difficult to both describe and see is that capabilities of traditional law enforcement "Special Weapons Attack Team" the sole by forming ad-hoc SWAT-type units involving some of these colours fade into each other in certain places. Another brilliant feature of MultiCam is first responders and/or investigative units." purpose of this unit was to react quickly and crowd and riot control, sniper skills and that it does not consist of a uniformly tight pattern that is reproduced repetitively, with the medium SWAT or Special Weapons and Tactics decisively to bank robberies while they were surveillance. Television news stations and shades of a colour alternating in a larger pattern, with areas changing colour throughout the teams were first seen on the streets of in progress, by utilising a large number of print media carried live and delayed reports pattern, for example one area may be full of grey and brown blotches but be completely absent in America in the 1960s to handle riot control. specially trained officers who had at their of these events across the United States. others. This combination of sections of tight pattern and larger colour changes enables MultiCam to Since then the number of SWAT deployments disposal a significant amount of firepower. Personnel from the LAPD, having seen these work both close up and from a distance. steadily increased in the 1980s and 1990s It wasn't until a few years later with the broadcasts, contacted Delano and inquired during the War on Drugs and later in the creation of LAPD's SWAT teams that the about the program. One officer then obtained aftermath of the September 11 attacks name was changed to Special Weapons and permission to observe the Delano Police to a staggering 50,000 times a year. Of Tactics. After the LAPD's establishment of Department's special weapons and tactics these almost 80% of these were in the its own SWAT team, many law enforcement units in action, and afterwards, he took what JUST FOR LOOKS THEN? execution of high threat narcotic search agencies across the United States he had learned back to Los Angeles, where We get that Crye Precision want to spread their MultiCam wings and warrants. Today SWAT team across the US established their own specialised units his knowledge was used and expanded on to launch many different takes on the ever popular original pattern but some are increasingly equipped with military-type under various names. form the LAPD's own first SWAT unit. make more sense than others. Multicam Black is one of those camouflage patterns that makes little to no sense at all, other than looking "Cool." Wearing black as camouflage to stay hidden is actually a terrible idea. MULTICAM PATTERNS You may think that in the still of night that black is the ideal concealment, As we mentioned earlier, Crye’s family of but you would be wrong as solid black is an unnatural colour and will patterns use the tried and tested geometry stand out - even in the darkest of surroundings. of MultiCam (that’s the shapes and gradients However you may be thinking at this point that Special Forces types used to make up the pattern), and recolour are well documented to wearing dark clothing and you would be right, them appropriately to the environments but the key word here is 'Dark.' they are tailored towards. These patterns Black will actually show up more than say a dark green, blue are specifically Arid, Tropic, Alpine and on or even grey, which is even more amplified in the darkness. topic here, Black. These patterns are not only There are two parts to a good camouflage system: effective in their specific environments but the first is to try and match the colour palette of also undoubtedly very cool looking! your surroundings and the second is to try and disrupt your silhouette. The trick to disrupting your ■ silhouette is to fool who may be looking for you. ARID Arid is intended to blend better in rocky, Although the observer may see you, they may not dry areas with little green vegetation. As reconise your outline shape as another Human. such much of the green toning has been Black camouflage is exceptionally bad at this replaced with sand and tan colours. BEST because of the shadow a black piece of clothing casts upon itself. For example, you have a man-shaped black shadow, but by adding some ■ TROPIC disruption and irregular spots of a different colour Tropic is intended to blend better in the entire shape slips into the background. Solid verdant, green areas. The level of tan or black it is not an effective form of camouflage for the brown colours has been greatly reduced battlefield, hence why Black Camo has never really been and the overall balance is heavily towards adopted by any military forces. the green end of the colour spectrum. BETTER CRYE PRECISION HAVE BEEN SMART ■ ALPINE WITH THEIR TAKE ON WHAT ESSENTIALLY IS Alpine is obviously intended to work in snowy, icy conditions. This pattern is A BLACK CAMOUFLAGE PATTERN AND MOVED predominantly white with a small amount IT AWAY FROM THE MILITARY WORLD PLACING of light grey tones sparsely intermingled. EFFECTIVENESS GOOD IT FIRMLY AT THE FEET OF THE US TACTICAL LAW ■ BLACK Black is intended to work in low light ENFORCEMENT WORLD, WHERE CAMOUFLAGE situations and to compliment uniformed officers. The basic colouration is black TUNDRA DESERT TEMPERATE WOODLAND JUNGLE ISN'T REALLY REQUIRED, BUT IS STILL USED with some tan/green accents. MULTICAM MULTICAM MULTICAM MULTICAM MULTICAM WITHIN UNITS SUCH AS SWAT AND HRT. In a way Multicam Black has somewhat demilitarised what MULTICAM MUTICAM TROPIC MULTICAM ARID MULTICAM ALPINE are essentially police officers and for the first time ever given their tactical teams their very own camouflage, but for ‘psychological’ reasons more than anything else, Because let's face it, guys dressed in black are terrifyingly scary and above all, in our world, look very cool. 042 WWW.TAIWANGUN.COM WWW.TAIWANGUN.COM 043 BACK IN BLACK GEAR UP WITH US AS WE TAKE TO THE SKIRMISH FIELD - PAINTED BLACK EMERSON GEAR DESIGNED FOR LOW- EMERSON GEAR £85.28 £33.00 MULTICAM: BACK BLACK IN ADVANCED COMBAT UNIFORM LIGHT OR UNIFORM FAST HELMET We have already seen Emerson Gear in full effect in the previous Emerson Gear produce several styles of helmet, issue and can testify to the quality of their gear both in the studio USE, THE PATTERN IS that come in several different thicknesses and more importantly out on the skirmish field. Having been sent STRIKING TO SAY THE and weights. This is the Fast PJ version, which several Camouflage patterns and solid colours we soon realised the at £33.00 and a weight of 585g is the most benefit to having many sets of clothing for the skirmish field, which LEAST. IT'S INTENDED expensive in the range, but to be fair, there are is very achievable for everyone at the affordable price points that TO WORK IN LOW only very slight differences across the range.

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