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US Marine Corps Recon and Special Operations Uniforms & Equipment 2000–15
US Marine Corps Recon and Special Operations Uniforms & Equipment 2000–15
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In the age of modern warfare the changing landscape of the 21st century battlefield has demanded a transformation within the US Marine Corps Special Operations.
Adapting to a huge range of combat environments, an enormous array of specialist uniforms, protective armour and battlefield electronic devices were developed to facilitate missions in the most extreme conditions. A special forces operator would now have available to him a dozen distinct types of body armour and two dozen different weapons; never before in American military history had so much equipment been given to so few.
Authored by J. Kenneth Eward, professor at the American Military University, and illustrated throughout with photographs and meticulous colour plates, this volume offers the first detailed, authoritative study of the characteristics, and performance in the field, of the most modern combat gear and weapons provided for USMC specialist operators to date.
Table of Contents
Specialist combat clothing: camouflage, temperate, desert, cold weather; insignia
Combat equipment ensembles: improvised; CQBE; MLLCE; Ranger ACK; FSBE; FSBE II; Recon ILBE
Special-purpose kits: combat swimmer/diver; parachutist; helicopter infiltration/exfiltration; assault climber; medical & survival
Battlefield optics & electronics: observation & illumination; communications; navigation
Small arms: knives, pistols, rifles, carbines, support weapons; sights, illuminators, suppressors, grips, stocks, magazines, slings; hand grenades and grenade launchers
Conclusions & future developments
Index
Product details
| Published | 20 Jan 2016 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 64 |
| ISBN | 9781472806789 |
| Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
| Illustrations | 50 col |
| Dimensions | 248 x 184 mm |
| Series | Elite |
| Short code | ELI 208 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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