For what it's worth the ACH/MICH 2000 was also a stupid design, where if you didn't get one size up, it looked and felt like a jew hat.

The Ukraine war has shown once more that the infantryman, if he is wearing some gucci bullshit plate carrier with the latest Crye faggotry and D-rings its the least valuable thing on the battlefield and he usually ends up as a purple stain in the soil the longer he spends in combat, getting killed mostly by mines and artillery without even seeing the enemy. I'm glad this fad is facing reality of being 90% LARP.

Protip: If you replace the half inch screws in your bolt latch, hinges, and trim, with longer screws, or even lag bolts, if it's secured to the wall supports you can accomplish the same thing. This is irrelevant if your door is shit and can be easily split.

I have to clear some things up with my retarded co-admin.

It's not the Russians with Gucci gear who are dying in mass droves.

None of it is actually Crye or some other hot Boi company, it's all reproduction generic shit anyways, in fact the Ukraine mostly makes their own plate carriers.

There is an insane amount of documented evidence that the equipment is doing its intended job.

No fucking Ukrainian or Russia is heading out to Bakhmut or whatever wearing some outdated ALICE rig or RRV or literally what ever the fuck anti-modern piece of equipment some neck beard is sperging out over this month. No one is fucking covered head to toe in some IBH level combat marshmallow man suit.

If your point was that trench warfare in some grey abysmal grain field sucks for everyone, than I would agree. Because that's really what it is. No Ukrainian is going to care what your gear take is.

If I offered a Ukrainian or a Russian a Crye CPC or an AVS with Crye cut combat uniform with a helmet with opscore style padding, they would gobble that shit up so fast over their shit tier issued third world half budgeted maybe working armour.

You'll still die from drones.

You'll still die from artillery.

Your tank will not save you, your APC will not save you.

It's only a "fad" here because Instagram and social media. It's literally all social media creating a $200 pouch for a $800 plate carrier.