New Uniform for the IDF SOF

I see from some industry sites that France, Canada, and Italy have ordered these uniforms; in addition to two Israeli units.

That guy clearly has depression.

They've got to get their model a proper pair of boots.  No infantry based warrior would be caught dead in boots with zippers!  ;-)   The only time zippered combat boots appeared in my house, were when my wife brought them home...

Glad to see a new uniform finally showing up.  I expect this will slowly find its way to the rest of the infantry as budgets alllow.  We made do with the boots and uniforms we had because that's all there was, but an updated דגמ"ח will probably be well-appreciated - especially in the winter.  The standard issue IDF cotton long johns and cotton 'B' uniforms were terrible during the rainy season.  We all had to come up with a lot of our own gear for winter to manage wet and weight properly.  In the summer the cotton worked well enough; but it is nice to see that soldiers will get the benefit of modern technologies.  עלה קרב !

Thanks, Uri. I hope the regular troops stick w/ OD, would hate to see the hot barely legal Israeli girls in any other color but OD: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu1nk8WHH18 / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1yrn51Vel4

Its good stuff Uri but now anytime some Pvt starts bemoaning the issued uniform the Sgt no longer can reply with- "The IDF has been fighting with the same OD uniform since the 1950s and it works pretty god damn well for them, so if you dont like what your wearing go roll around in the dust some more until it meets your standards"

Wow the crazy thing is I just saw an AR15 today with that camo pattern on it.

Every once in a while a gear story gets to leave the loadoutroom dungeon!

Thanks Uri, good info.

Cool story

Interesting camouflage and the effect on an individual's thermal signature.  Is that the pattern being deployed?

How is the comfort and overall heat dissipation of this reversible garment? I know that early issues with reversible camo had a significant increase in weight which made them either too hot or just plain uncomfortable.

 @ufridman Just a quick question Uri, will be this uniform available for all IDF SOF or just a specific unit of the IDF SOF? The doubt came with this sentence "...contract to supply its FIGHTEX combat uniform solution for an elite unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)."

Uri, this is some good stuff - went to Fibrotex site and pretty amazing, and also it's invented and manufactured right there in Tel Aviv.  It's awesome that this product can even fool  thermal detection systems by radiating a virtual temperature.  Will do a lot for morale, too.  We've had some discussions on this very subject lately here on Sofrep.

Very cool!