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[joe]

Has anyone noticed the two photos of the soldier in the swamp in the training category of this sites photo gallery.....i think there titled war. His C-7 is cadpat. Is this gonna become a reality or is this just another one of the many tease the soldier ideas that will never happen?

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

For reference, the photo can be seen here:

http://cdnarmy.ca/cgi-bin/album.pl?photo=Training/9001.jpg

Cheers

 

[Korus]

I‘ve never seen so much cadpat in my life....

 

[BestOfTheBest]

its actully not bad

 

[silverhorse86]

with the cadpat on the gun it loks kinda like plastic does anyone else think so?

 

[Jarnhamar]

Cadpat boats and weapons??

We can‘t even get jackets the same colour as our pants.

I bet in 5 or 10 years the army will issue a warning saying "do not use cadpat anymore, looking at it for extended periods of time may cause seizures"

 

[Zoomie]

Funny thing is Aaron, the C7 is made up primarily of plastic resins. The only visible metal on the C7A1 is the first 15 cm of the barrel, the front blade site, the upper and lower receive assemblies between the hand-guards and the butt and the trigger. Everything else (handguards, pistol grip, butt, ELCAN site, etc) is plastic or rubber.

There is talk of changing all the plastic/rubber pieces to CADPAT. They have even suggested developing a Bluing technique that would imprint the CADPAT pattern on to the metal surfaces.

 

[Korus]

I‘ve heard rumors of cadpat goretex jackets by next summer.

But then again, I‘ve also heard rumors of the entire CF (both res and reg) being outfitted with cadpat by this past August....

Now if I could only get my CADPAT campaint technique down pat...

 

[armd_recce]

Putting CADPAT on a C7 would be a relatively easy proposition. The technology exists in civvy land already, most usually for shotguns intended for turkey or waterfowl hunting.
Basically, you take the weapon, finish it normally (parkerized for the steel bits and hard coat anodized for the aluminum bits), then lower it through a floating decal of the cam pattern. Yes, it‘s very durable, and no, solvents won‘t remove it.

 

[Sharpey]

Korus...the CADPAT is comming. I‘ve gotta pick up my relish next week. Now, I‘m 31 Brigade (LFCA), so mabye it‘s slowly working it‘s way accross the country. Schwerpunkt...you guys get yours issued yet or is this just a London District thing?

 

[armd_recce]

The unit got it issued a week or two ago, but only about 50% of the total. They were out of a lot of popular sizes.
I‘m heading out for Roto 12, so I had the pleasure of burning the threads off 4 sets =(

 

[combat_medic]

Well, being about as far west as you can get, I‘m sure we‘ll be last. I think the guys are beginning to believe that CADPAT is really just a myth. I‘m beginning to agree with them.

 

[Sharpey]

Yeah, I‘ll beleive it when they physically hand me my sets next week. Plus yet another set of different socks.

Schwerpunkt, I forgot you were doing that. Good luck to ya!

 

[Pikache]

Got my 3 pairs last night. I don‘t think anyone missed out on getting theirs.
Even those only BMQ or SQ qualified got theirs...

 

[2Lt_Martin]

If you ever do get a CADPAT C7 don‘t put it down in the field or on a range. From the look of the one pictured above you may never find it again. Can you imagine the lost kit reports and charge parade to follow. Well I guess it will keep all the MWO‘s busy/busier than they already are.

 

[Jungle]

Man, in the CF, we do not do things half-a**ed... we don‘t do it at all or we go overboard !!! Have you seen the picture of those CADPAT boots ? They look ridiculous !!! Anyway, as in all things, too much is like not enough. So, when are we going to see a CADPAT Iltis or LAV-3 ??? BTW, I saw a picture of a CADPAT mod tent... imagine coming back from a patrol and you can‘t find the bivouac ? Don‘t get me wrong, the pattern is great and extremely effective. but do we need EVERYTHING in CADPAT ???

 

[Harry]

Hi Jungle,

It always amazes me that there is no middle ground per se in the CF.

I find things run on a pendulum type system, one extreme or another. Some ranking clown wants to stroke his ego because he never wore a jump smock, voila, Garrison jackets, aka, Canadian Tire duck hunting jackets. Someone finally got it right and we went back to tri-service dress. Some phat phuck(s) in the palace looked the part of the marsh mellow man in tan spandex, out with it. What are they talking about (again) lightweight CF‘s.

CADPAT, instead of getting the soldier basic stuff sorted out, they have gone off on a CADPAT overdose. Get the troops kitted out first, get all the uniform projects sorted out and then worry about the BS boots, tents, and peripheral stuff.

What‘s wrong with an off the shelf Gore-Tex boot worn by soldiers the world over, oh right, sorry. No BS contract to a friend of a friend in some Liberal dynastic riding.

HOW MANY different pairs of Gore-Tex boots has the CF gone through in the past 5 years?

Look out here comes the pendulum...
:warstory:

 

[portcullisguy]

Rob Martin, your weapon shouldn‘t be more than arm‘s reach away anyway, I shouldn‘t think, unless someone else is watching it for you. At least, that‘s what they told me on BMQ earlier this month!

But you are right, imagine absent mindedly putting your cadpat anything down for a second in the wrong part of mother nature... you could lose a lot of kit that way!

 

[scm77]

Cadpat on a C7 would only be good if you could change it to desert Cadpat for desert operations. Otherwise just leave them black.

 

[Danjanou]

I wouldn‘t want to be in the QM when someone tries to issue Jungle his CADPAT jock strap.