British Army OPS Vest | Webbing Walk | AATV EP216 

Thanks for letting us know.

Thanks for the info, that’s fascinating. I use a lightweight chest rig for urban or CQB along with a minimal shooters belt. I am guilty of lugging too much about most of the time!

Thanks for sharing how you would setup with a plate carrier? Carrier to the body over the vest over smock? Best regards

@@dago4076 Just my personal preference, to keep armour and web gear separate. I think the DPM Combat Body Armour could be worn under the smock, and the ECBA has space for two plates to cover your chest and back. Smock goes over the top, lots of pockets to carry personal stuff, then an ops vest over that. Conceivably you could wear the armour and ops vest over your clothing, but you lose access to those pockets. If you can imagine the CBA/ECBA, and the vest with it, that's like a plate carrier setup, just without any MOLLE attachments. Another combination I used before was the EBCA and chest rig. A friend of mine wears a chest rig for hiking and wears it low down with the hip belt for his hiking rucksack. I'm personally not a fan of doing that, but it seems to work for him. I don't see him leopard crawling up any Cumbrian Fells so like the urban environment, it's unlikely to interfere with movement as it's very unlikely you'll go prone.

Thanks for letting us know your story!

Sounds like good mods to me.

@@AnvilAirsoftTV it worked well I should never have sold it 😢

I liked my Smersh. I had a repro and a then a Avicent one.

I’m into my Russian kit in a big way. I love the variety of different camo patterns, particularly the NATO copies! I believe the SMERSH was excellent for its time. The nylon material made it better in comparison to 58 pattern webbing and the grenade pouches integrated to the ammo pouches are a good touch as is the main padded belt outer which is comfortable to use and very forward thinking for the time. However there doesn’t leave much room on the belt for additional pouches. The large pouch ‘crumbs bag’ doesn’t fit a great deal other than rations in it.

The SSO Smersh has to be the best load bearing equipment I've ever owned. As you said, too bad it doesn't really work with NATO stuff

@@RecoilRogue Another problem I found with the replica now that I am getting into night vision is that it lights up white under IR!

Just mooching about.

Glad to be of help

Sounds like a good setup.

Oh cool!

Thanks. Will do!

Thanks for the info!

You can always tailor buckles onto yokes/vests/Bergens and add as many rockets as you like :-D

@@OldNavajoTricks true that, I just ain’t got the experience to, nor the funds or in-roads to send it to a pro.

@@kaynanvulperus4633 Don't suppose you're anywhere near Nottingham lol?

There’s quite a lot of standup paddlers on the canal.

People are pretty relaxed round here.

We will do a US webbing episode at some point.

​​​@@AnvilAirsoftTVI have a question about the ops vest and I hope you can help me out. I have two of these assault vest, one later one with the nexus buckles to attach a haversack and one without. Now you said that you can fit the rocket pack to the clips, however thats not possible? The rocket pack has smaller nexus clips than the ones on the vest, so you cant attach it. The same goes for a camelback hydration bladder I bought. Again the clips on the bladder are smaller than the one on the vest. Do your vests have smaller buckles or is there sth I overlooked? I really want to attach a haversack or bladder to my assault vest for airsoft purposes and so far every plce haversack or bladder I have bought fits only the smaller buckles (the same size that closes the front pockets) Thanks!

For trail running they would be too cumbersome and would get hot too. Short distances they are fine. I prefer webbing and Gadge prefers vests so I guess opinions will also differ on who you ask.

@@AnvilAirsoftTV Thanks for that reply !👍 I was just looking at one at a car boot sale and thinking about it ! I also marshal at running races etc. so it might still fit in with somewhere.👍

Useful for that. Tons of storage space.

I’ll check in with Gadge and get back to you.

100% agree

I would use a chest rig for shorter games. If I needed to carry more gear then I’d probably go to a set of webbing.

That’s not a great look!

It’s a Cannae Gear Legion in Ranger Green. No longer manufactured though.

You could probably rig something up.

Agreed. Was such an advanced bit of kit.

A few. We do it very infrequently though. You could use a weight vest or a loaded rucksack?

@@AnvilAirsoftTV yeah don't want to spend cash on a weighted vest as good ones are expensive. Webbing spreads the weight better than a ruck so would prefer that really

EBay if you’re not in the UK. If in the UK most army surplus shops.

Nope.

@@AnvilAirsoftTV damnit. I was looking for a rig that i can use with all my replicas without swapping pouches