Tactical Fashion

[humansofnewyork]

“I was a maître d’ at a restaurant for thirteen years. But one week I got a really bad case of pneumonia that put me in the hospital. While I was lying in that hospital bed, I was thinking about how I really didn’t want to go back to work. Then that motivational speaker came on TV. You know– the one that has all those teeth in his mouth. And he said: ‘Think back to what made you happy when you were young! That’s what you should be doing!’ Well I grew up in the country, and I always had a lot of dogs, so I thought that nothing would make me happier than to be a dog walker. But I knew I needed to distinguish myself. So I decided to make a uniform. I smoked a joint and came up with this outfit. I wanted people to look at me and think: ‘If this man is walking our dog, and there’s some sort of major disaster, he’s going to survive. He’s going to fish for those dogs. He’s going to build a bunker and shelter those dogs until it’s safe to bring them home.’ After I finished the design, I got four of my friends to wear the uniform, and we borrowed all the neighbors’ dogs, and we walked them down 5th avenue while handing out business cards. I got five customers that first day.” 

[khymeira]

Yes good

[stiflermaks]

[ibelongtothefuture-blog]

I’m here to kick ass and chew a specific brand of bubblegum that I found in a village outside Tokyo and import on a monthly basis. Yeah, i’m all out of gum…

[fuckyeahmilspec]

 Chinese and Russian Special Forces training together.

[neuromaencer]

MQ90 combat drone / original model via sparrow s.a

[futurism-media]

Check out Original Art from the Greatest Science Fiction Magazine Ever!

[blacksheephi]

Experimental kit with the Apex Bionic Softshell

[apocalypsepack]

Source IG @devtac

[sekigan]

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Sivark Art

[fuckyeahmilspec]

“Authenticity” doesn’t mean much to me. I just want “good”, in the sense of well-designed, well-constructed, long-lasting garments. My interest in military clothing stems from that. It’s not about macho, playing soldiers, anything militaristic. It’s the functionality, the design-solutions, the durability. Likewise workwear. Military clothing is built to strict contract, but with the manufacturer cutting ever corner they can without violating the specifications. The finishing on a Rickson reproduction is exponentially superior to the finishing on most of the originals, and I’d much rather have a brand-new exact copy that’s more carefully assembled.

William Gibson, http://www.rawrdenim.com/2015/03/william-gibson-interview-buzz-rickson-line-tech-wear-limits-authenticity/

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[bornofanatombomb]

 Minovo Wang

[fuckyeahmilspec]

Battle for Kobani: the improvised tank that helped defeat Isis – video | World news | The Guardian

Kurdish militia show off one of the armoured vehicles, built by welding steel pipes and gun turrets to a flatbed truck, that they used in the fight against Islamic State

[northernish-deactivated20151011]

The evolution of the warrior’s helmet.

[fuckyeahmilspec]

Islamic State terrorists appear to have a new weapon with which to terrorize the world. It’s a 10-foot-long sniper rifle that shoots bullets three times the size of ordinary rifle bullets. The weapon is so big, it requires two tripods to support it, instead of just the shooter’s arm. An Islamic State militant was photographed positioned behind the massive firearm inside the Syrian city of Kobane.

[interdome-deactivated20200604]

In the 1930s, if you were an engineer who really dug automobiles, you would do well to get a job at Porsche, where Nazi tanks would end up being developed. If the 2010s, if you are a hacker who really believed in networks, you would do well to get a job at a security company developing zero-day exploits for sale to authoritarian governments. This is where the aesthetic of our “cyberspace” technology has led us. The cyberpunk has become a curtain, that looks like the future, but hides the truth of exploitation. The cyberpunks are still hackers, but they are not working against the corporations, but for them.

The mirror shade aesthetic now lives in the every day carry of corporate mercenaries and libertarian preppers, who have the cash to buy and wield milspec technical gear. Cutting edge visual interfaces are now about as punk as a Ramones T-shirt in SoHo. High impact plastic and black leather are more likely found in the ballistic duffels of riot police than on the bodies of those who inhabit the sprawl, who are forced to make their protective gear out of trash bags, cheap polyester hoodies, and discarded polyethylene soda bottles.

The Politics of Cyberpunk

[criminalwisdom]

MEXICO’S VIGILANTE TANKS»

Back in 1981, the cult movie “Mad Max II: The Road Warrior” turned Australia into a post-apocalyptic wasteland where bandits fought in beefed-up trucks with huge battering rams and gun turrets. Fast-forward three decades to Mexico’s drug war, and vigilantes and gangsters have made such techno-barbaric road wars a reality.

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[brucesterling]

What works on the battlegrounds of Ukraine

[worsethandetroit]

Uploaded on 28 Aug 2014 http://voc.tv/1orlEGg SUkraine’s military geeks are bringing the fury to the front line. The pro-Ukrainian volunteer fighters were frustrated with the lack of organization and funding of the Ukrainian army, so the self-proclaimed “nerd units” decided to take matters into their own hands. They crowdsourced funds to purchase drones and quadcopters. And now the eye-in-the-sky machines are proving to be a game-changer in the fight against pro-Russian separatists.

Aerial information about enemy fighters is key in any conflict, but for a largely underfunded and inefficient army, like Ukraine’s, it’s hard to come by. The lack of such information hurts in terms of both intel and financing: Every badly aimed mortar is just more money wasted.

With their newfound aerial support, the pro-Ukrainian forces are now using a drone named “The Fury” to call in coordinates for their mortar attacks against the pro-Russian rebels. The Fury has located enemy tanks near Gorlivka, Ukraine, which the soldiers later destroyed, according to a drone pilot whose identity was withheld.

Volunteers like Aleksey Arestovich, a former Ukrainian military intelligence officer, provide the Ukrainian army with great deal of support. Arestovich says the government is too inefficient to effectively fight the war. His battalion, along with others, began to crowdsource the money needed for the drones back in May, and he notes that they received a good chunk of donations from an unexpected source: “kind housewives.”

It’s all part of a grassroots movement to provide ammunition and other tools to help the pro-Ukrainian forces soar, as battalion commander Yuri Bereza says, “like a phoenix rising from its ashes.”