Thread 64420570

I have a small autism for Ranger Body Armor. It's both aesthetically pleasing and an interesting intermediate technological step from "soft" Kevlar and flak vests to IBAs and the modern plate carriers of today.

Post RBAs, be they sets you own or just have pictures of.

Starting with some pics of RBAs used by the 101st Airborne Division when it deployed to Kosovo from 2000 to 2001

>>64420939
>>64420570 (OP)
So fucking hi-speed.

Is it just me or do RBA vests remind anyone else of the “chicken plate” vests from Vietnam?

It's all nostalgia but goddamn do I love the aesthetics of this era. BDUs, A2 rifles, and ALICE gear is my jam.

>>64420570 (OP)
Thread theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwLIHqkqHcw

This one's more of a maybe but I think the one closes to the camera is wearing an RBA

Can't be 100% certain with this one because of the shitty camera quality but I think the one in the foreground is wearing an RBA.

>>64421000
>May Hill

How expensive is these things nowadays?

>>64427147

Found one going for $600

https://www.ebay.com/itm/187031369652?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&google_free_listing_action=view_item

>>64427117
That’s May Hill Top Boston, to you.

>>64420571
>mk19 and saw on a humvee

interesting set up.

>>64420570 (OP)
great era of gear. crazy to see the 80s panama fuck it the lbe unbuckled attitude mixed with rails aimpoints on 20 inchers.

>>64428753

For me, it's scrim

>>64429685
this

>>64431589

Ye ye

>>64428750

Daka and BEEG Daka

>>64431863
Is facepaint ever coming back? That shit looked sick.

>>64432973

It'd fucking better, loved wearing this shit when I was in.

>>64424821
Literally the game that set my taste in gear and Camouflage.

>>64435765

A shame that it's a shitty sandbox shooter now and they won't remake the original.

idk if these are RBAs since they're in black, but they seem to at least based on the same concept.

>>64436550
That lefty carbine is fucking with me.

>>64437757

I believe it's a CQBR receiver, commonly used by Navy SEALs

>>64437757

I believe it's a CQBR M4, commonly used by Navy SEALs

>>64436550
shit balls

*bark*

>>64437757
It's a composite image. That guy is flipped. His PASGT vest is also reversed

>>64440143
You'd be wrong. It's a Model 733.

>>64436775
ahh Kosovo. This brings me waaaaayyyyy back.
Left 2 right
>Spec4 mafiosa Dominguez hot off the boat from Rico and can't speak 2 sentences of English
>POG 1st LT in gortex(just issued and officers definitely got it first just cuz the AC gets cold sometimes) wearing German Tanker boots fucking with his gear while VP is under his charge.
>high speed manlet(blurred rank) manspalinin the situation to effeminate male US politician in General Pattons leather jacket with sheboon sidekick lookin all sassy n sheeit.
>10th Mountain WV kid wondering who these people are and if he was having a ham slice or chili mac MRE for dinner.

fucking tourists those BDUs were too clean for this world.

>estonia
huh?

>>64450215

I recall seeing a few pics of ANA and Iraqi special forces wearing them in the early GWOT days too.

>>64426160

Who are the cops?

Got some old training photos from 1998-2000ish, not sure if all of them are RBAs though.

>>64451500
What is this sexy bitch from?

>>64457552

Castle in the Sky

>>64457558
wtf

>>64457602
>he's never watched Studio Ghibli's greatest masterpiece

https://9animetv.to/watch/castle-in-the-sky-198?ep=79874

>>64454311
First one has a Canadian flag on sleeve patch?

>>64420570 (OP)
>>64420939
What is the name of the handguard?

>>64457640
No I've seen it, it was just the realization of who the character was.

>>64457680

The scope mount?

idk if these are the originals or reproductions, but you can buy them from Precision Reflex

https://www.opticsplanet.com/precision-reflex-pri-m16-ar15-carry-handle-mount.html?srsltid=AfmBOorr3ByUaHSSfYrKoj55nTULnP9wL-Sys4jkiWRZHeLkEASFiQzj

>>64457766

Let me just put it this way

>Farm girl with no family
>Freelance engineer with no family and zero capacity to keep his hands off her for more than five minutes
There’s no way this didn’t end in teenage pregnancy and copious scolding from that village mom

>>64457680
M203 handguard

>>64434363
>>64432973
we always wear facepaint in the field now

>>64458965
Huh, I never knew M203 handguards were polymer. All this time I thought they were aluminum.

>>64458965

Retard question, what's the point of the M203 heat shield (apart from looking cool)? Does it really heat up so much that regular handguards will melt?

>>64460311
Built in grenade launcher sight is the important bit. It also covers what would be a slightly awkward gap and more securely mounts than just a top clamshell, which isn't critical but you may as well.
Using just an upper clamshell with a M203 is perfectly viable.
With RIS none of this mattered.

>>64461992
>With RIS none of this mattered.

>>64451500
>>64457558
>>64457640
>>64457824

Based Castle in the Sky enjoyer

>>64445122
>>64446151

What's are those woodland kneepads?

>>64420570 (OP)
Why is e so smug? Is it because he knows Rangers lead the way?

>>64458965

So how come the carbine versions of the M16 usually didn't feature these?

>>64432973

We still use

t. was wearing during a field exercise last week

>>64466419
"Ranger" kneepads. There were made in a small quantity with no manufacturer tag on them, so no one knows who made them. Some people say Natick Labs or rigga made.

>>64472152
>no one knows who made them

I made them

>>64424821

IS that a CAR-15?

bump

>>64420571

kino

>>64474171
>this is what Russians are fighting for

Also I have some pics of Rangers doing an exercise on the USS George Washington circa 1994 if you guys are interested

>>64420570 (OP)
Why would you want some shitty body armor panel that doesn't even stop steel 7.62x39

>>64482032
1. OP was appreciating equipment of the past, not looking to buy some today.
2. RBA plates were ceramic and rating NIJ3, which protects against 7.62