Chest rigs used by Royal commandos/SAS

[David Mijo]

Hello,

 

My buddies and I want to make either a Royal commando loadout or SAS (MTP/Multicam), we want to use chest rigs, so that kind of dictates the choice. Can someone provide us a kit list of a chest rig loadout, or just the chest rig models they use?

 

Best regards,

David

[JimFromHorsham]

Original Arktis / issue chest rigs followed by a mix of BlackHawk & Paraclete for the older vibe , Crye Precision would be a bit more up to date . 

 

 

[Crazy_Crystal]

Chest rigs are a bit less common these days but still used occasionally for specific roles. I suspect that belt kit will always be king in the light infantry role for a while anyway. The Royal marines will be issued a C2R chest rig soon though (although this is probably British military "soon")

 

Alternatively uksf use a few different variations including C2Rfast, mayflower and Platatac being seen. There will be others out there too I'm sure. (It's mostly private purchase stuff for the most part though.)

[Wavey_Gravey]

Mayflower, now velocity systems rigs are very popular.

[Druid799]

Greetings an welcome to the forum , JFYI it’s Royal Marine commando or just Royal Marines , never ‘royal commando’  liable to get a tad bent out of shape if you miss name them(you wanna see the way they flip out when you miss pronounce there unit numbers , “it’s 4-2 commando NOT 42 ! that’s f**king position in the Karma Sutra !” Is a standard one ! ??) any hoo as others have said if your going really ‘old school’ DPM go for an arktis NI chest rig plus a light weight belt kit , for more recent pre MTP your looking at a full belt kit and if more recent MTP/MC then as others have said Blackhawk/crye or any others ‘high end plate carriers will do .

[EvilMonkee]

You want them to really flip out? Point out their ID cards says Royal Navy ......

[Druid799]

29 minutes ago, EvilMonkee said:

You want them to really flip out? Point out their ID cards says Royal Navy ......

Hahahaha completely forgot about how pissed they get when you call them sailors  ! ? as we used to do ALL the time in Brecon ! ????

[C-Diddy]

1 hour ago, EvilMonkee said:

You want them to really flip out? Point out their ID cards says Royal Navy ......

Or ask which instrument they play 

[Cannonfodder]

Many moons ago when I was at school we had a visit for a few days from some RM PT instructors doing the usual recruitment stuff. As part of it they ran a self defence class at lunchtime and one day I made the mistake of not checking which t shirt I'd grabbed out of the drawer in the morning. It was a marron one with a parachute reg badge on it and, despite my best efforts to hide at the back of the class, it was spotted and I was "volunteered" for all the demos

Edited April 25, 2022 by Cannonfodder

[Tommikka]

3 hours ago, EvilMonkee said:

You want them to really flip out? Point out their ID cards says Royal Navy ......

 

2 hours ago, Druid799 said:

Hahahaha completely forgot about how pissed they get when you call them sailors  ! ? as we used to do ALL the time in Brecon ! ????

I used to be the Army lead in a particular subject area.

I’d get at least one call a week with a sob story as to why their problem was special and my 3 answers were:

 

1) I hear your problem, oh dear how sad never mind.  You are in the queue and will get yours sorted along everyone else’s as per priority / resources 

 

2) That’s a shame, I’ll knock up an email endorsing it, and if you call them on Monday everything will be wonderfull

 

But the most common response was number 3

3) You’re in the Navy, call x

”But we’re a bit like the Army and wear green clothes”