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Someone mentioned actor Jesse Ventura in the movie “Predator.” His character brandished an M 134 Mini gun fed by an ammo box on his back. After the Soldiers had a good laugh over that thought, Staff Sgt. Vincent Winkowski asked why a gunner couldn carry a combat load of ammo. He decided to pursue the idea.

“When we first arrived in theater in late October (2010), we were issued the Mk 48 7.62 mm machine guns,” Winkowski said. “This was a new piece of equipment for us, and we struggled to come up with a solution for carrying and employing ammunition for it due to our small size and the inability to have a designated canada goose coats on sale ammo bearer, as is common doctrine with the M240B.


“The ammunition sacks that came with it made it too cumbersome and heavy to carry over long, dismounted patrols and especially when climbing mountains. https://www.estrategias.de Initially, we came canada goose black friday sale up with using 50 round belts and just reloading constantly, which led to lulls of fire and inefficiency.”

canada goose black friday canada So Winkowski grabbed an old ALICE (all purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment) frame, welded two ammunition cans together one atop the other after cutting the bottom out of canada goose clearance the top can and strapped the fused cans to the frame. To that he added a MOLLE (modular, lightweight load carrying equipment) pouch to carry other equipment. canada goose black friday canada


“We wondered why there wasn some type of dismounted (Common Remote Operating Weapons Station) Canada Goose sale that fed our machine guns instead of a mini gun as portrayed in the movie,” Winkowski said. “So, I decided to try it using the feed chute assembly off of the vehicle CROWS. We glued a piece of wood from an ammo crate inside the ammo cans to create the decreased space necessary so the rounds would not fall in on each other.

canada goose outlet store winnipeg “My Mark 48 gunners, Spc. Derick Morgan and Spc. Aaron McNew, who also had input to the design and evaluation, took it to the range and tested it, and even with its initial shortcomings, it was much better than the current TTP (tactics, techniques and procedures) we employed. On Feb. 26, 2011, our prototype pack even saw its first combat use by Spc. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command. canada goose outlet store winnipeg

The request landed on the desk of Dave Roy, a current operations analyst in the Quick Reaction Cell of the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, or NSRDEC, military deputy office.

canada goose bomber uk “We looked at it,” Roy recalled. “My first reaction was, that cool. I thought it was great.” canada goose bomber uk

In his 21 years as a Soldier, he had seen his share of ingenious solutions to problems.

“Our doctrine encourages Soldiers to think for themselves,” Roy said. “That why we so effective on the battlefield. One of the things that makes us so effective against our opponents throughout history is the fact that we recognize the value of the doctrine, but we are not slaves to it.”

Roy knew that there was no time to waste, because Soldiers on the ground needed a solution as quickly as NSRDEC could get it to them. He consulted with Natick experts in cheap Canada Goose prototypes, load carriage, machining and fabrication. Forty eight days after the request was received, and after inspecting and measuring the Soldier original, QRC had a prototype of the “High Capacity Ammunition Carriage System” back in theater.

“I dubbed it the because the unit in the field that developed the initial design is from the Iowa National Guard,” said Roy, “and they are considered Task Force Ironman.”

The folks at NSRDEC substituted a MOLLE medium frame for the ALICE frame. The ammo compartment now uses polycarbonate plastic instead of the original tin. Until NSRDEC can come up with a simpler, more cost effective substitute, the ammo will continue to move through a 27 inch long, $1,710 feed chute designed for the CROWS, which the Guardsmen had employed.

“I knew in order for this to work, it needed to be as modular as possible,” Roy said. “It needed to be based off of a current technology. We were able to put everything together very quickly and were able to prove that with a combat load that 43 pounds with 500 rounds, inclusive of the weight of the kit itself that still gives the Soldier 17 pounds worth of cargo weight to attach to the frame and still be within the design specifications for the MOLLE medium.”

“We pretty much took their design and just reverse Canada Goose Jackets engineered it and improved upon it,” said Laura Winters, who headed up the fabrication effort. “Considering where we started from and what we got to, I think it worked very well. It was a very good collaborative effort. Everybody knew there was (an) end goal.”

As Roy pointed out, technology isn buy canada goose jacket cheap always about the whiz bang stuff.

buy canada goose jacket “Sometimes,” he added, “it merely a simple application of existing technologies in a different format that provides an elegant way to fill a capability gap.” buy canada goose jacket

Word has circulated rapidly in theater about the Ironman prototype.

“We already gotten email traffic from (one of) our science advisers that everybody in theater wants one of these and by in theater, he means his specific area of operation, Regional Command East in Afghanistan because word has spread,” Roy said. “That (Iowa National Guard) unit is not the only unit on that FOB. As they walking around the FOB with that piece of kit, very senior people are taking a look at it. They recognize it as a game changer.”

“It gotten quite a bit of high profile visibility and positive feedback that this is a good idea,” he said. “I believe we been able to meet the objectives laid out by that unit.”

cheap canada goose coats Roy is the first to admit that producing prototypes is one thing; getting the Ironman into the formal acquisition process is another. Still, he hopes that can be accomplished by early in fiscal year 2012. cheap canada goose coats

“Like James Bond and Q,” said Roy, “Q can come up with a one off design for an explosive ballpoint pen. If that material solution fills a gap, you don just want to have one of them, or you don want to just have the designs on a cocktail napkin. canada goose outlet You want to have something to fill that capability canada goose uk outlet gap very quickly.”

During this accelerated development process, Roy saw how the Ironman could increase a small unit effectiveness in combat.

canada goose factory outlet vancouver “To allow the canada goose gunner himself to be able to have this kind of firepower increases his lethality,” Roy said. “By increasing his lethality, you also increased his survivability by a certain amount. Now that gunner has 500 rounds of ammunition. It very difficult for me to make him ineffective.” canada goose factory outlet vancouver

In addition to the prototype in theater, NSRDEC had several more Ironmen on hand.

“We gotten some initial feedback from the Soldier and from his gunner on how to make some design changes,” said Roy, “and we incorporated the majority of those design changes. Minor stuff, but it always the minor stuff that makes any kind of system more efficient and more user friendly.”.

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