Frag Out! Magazine

The combat shirts perfectly work when used with a body armor vest or a plate carrier because their slick and pock- et-less torsos made from lightweight and stretchy fabrics perfectly fit to human body shapes and allow to avoid unpleasant skin abrasions. A problem occurs when a temperature outdoors drops – it is very hard to push a warmer cloth layer under the fitted body, and puting on a vest on the down jacket sometimes fails - a regulatory scope can, simply, not allow for this. There is always an available solution in the form of the standard uniform jakcket, but it will not be so comfortable, especially when pockets and a shirt itself are fastened with one row of buttons which a vest effectively pushes into the user's body. UF PRO The Slovenian designers from the UF PRO®, on the basis of their own experiences and knowledge shared by the special forces operators draw a conclusion that the best solution of the problem linked to harmonising win- ter clothing with the ballistic protective gear is joining a concept of the combat shirt and a down jacket in one, hybrid design d e S i g n The UF PRO® Delta combat shirt consists of two basic elements – a flexible torso made from lightweight Cocona® micro fleece fabric, passing into a raised collar and into the panels in the arm pit area, and sleeves and shoulders area filled with the G-Loft synthetic insulation. They managed to design a combat shirt which ensures both good fit and a thermal comfort in the exposed arm area and deprived of any additional (unnecessary) elements in the torso area totally shielded by a body armor. A shirt length is chosen to safely tuck it into the trousers, a closely fitting collar is fastened with a short zipper on more or less ¼ of its length. There is a soft strip underneath the zipper not allowing to a contact with a body. Sleeves are finished with flexible cuffs with hollows for thumbs, so called monkey paws, which prevent lifting them during dynamic movements. There are four pockets on the sleeves: • two pockets on the biceps fastened by spiral zippers; • two pockets on the forearms fastened by spiral zippers. In the upper part of the back there are sewed two "pouches" filled with filling which support distributing a weight of the gear. www.fragoutmag.com

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