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6/22/2025, 9:47:14 PM
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>If they buy Highcom, Highcom stops selling to civilians
Good! That means nobody is unknowingly running around with dangerous 4SAS4s that could have been compromised in the mail by a few drops and bad packaging by tacticalshit. Remember. Buffman's first plates passed the tap / torque tests. They still failed. You don't know for certain a plate's true condition without x-raying it. This is why $500+ expired Protech 2230s were on sale for like $160 weeks ago, even though they were badass plates new with some claims greatly exceeding even REV. J ESAPI. Ditto for why the old "surplus" Ceradyne D275s were so cheap way back when. 4.2lb B-32 API protection is incredible, better than GEN-5B TSA even, but those plates evidentially don't have a lot of drop foam if they're that light, not to mention the Ceradyne delam issue from about that time...
Highcom offers no products (aside from the mid-as-hell 3S9M - which is undercut slightly both in price and specs by the mediocre Hesco 3814) that lack equivalents from LTC, Hesco, or can be readily substituted by another company.
>Hesco
Only question is if Hesco has the money. LTC, Tencate, Point Blank, all kick Hesco's ass for major contracts. All of Hesco's latest plates, 3802, 3812, 4801, 4601, are heavier than their predecessors (lack of safety margin in the old ones!). For multiple reasons, I dare speculate they can't even make the old plates of theirs from back in the day like the 4520 anymore (pic rel, bottom right).
>If they buy Highcom, Highcom stops selling to civilians
Good! That means nobody is unknowingly running around with dangerous 4SAS4s that could have been compromised in the mail by a few drops and bad packaging by tacticalshit. Remember. Buffman's first plates passed the tap / torque tests. They still failed. You don't know for certain a plate's true condition without x-raying it. This is why $500+ expired Protech 2230s were on sale for like $160 weeks ago, even though they were badass plates new with some claims greatly exceeding even REV. J ESAPI. Ditto for why the old "surplus" Ceradyne D275s were so cheap way back when. 4.2lb B-32 API protection is incredible, better than GEN-5B TSA even, but those plates evidentially don't have a lot of drop foam if they're that light, not to mention the Ceradyne delam issue from about that time...
Highcom offers no products (aside from the mid-as-hell 3S9M - which is undercut slightly both in price and specs by the mediocre Hesco 3814) that lack equivalents from LTC, Hesco, or can be readily substituted by another company.
>Hesco
Only question is if Hesco has the money. LTC, Tencate, Point Blank, all kick Hesco's ass for major contracts. All of Hesco's latest plates, 3802, 3812, 4801, 4601, are heavier than their predecessors (lack of safety margin in the old ones!). For multiple reasons, I dare speculate they can't even make the old plates of theirs from back in the day like the 4520 anymore (pic rel, bottom right).
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