USMG Integrated Plate Carrier

 

 The USMG Integrated Plate Carrier (Large) is a lightweight, minimalist SAPI-carrying vest. Designed by combat veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the LPC3 is a simplistic vest designed to give the shooter life-saving protection with minimal encumbrance. The removable cumber bund is ideal for longer missions when more equipment will need to be readily available.

Paintball Extravaganza 2013

 

Real Action Paintball was proud to join the Paintball Expo just days ago in Leesburg, Virginia! We built an interactive display where thousands of top players, team captains, and industry insiders toured the latest milsim gear from RAP4, watched how easy it is to swap Tippmann internal marker parts into Tacamo Mag Fed Conversion Kits...and our guests even test fired the brand new 468!

That's right: we built a shooting range at Paintball Expo, and over the three day gala we lost track of how many thousands of shots our guests fired downrange. They felt how the 468 points, balances, and handles exactly like a duty-issue M4 carbine, and they watched those rounds fly from the Recon Rifled Barrel just as fast as they could pull the trigger...each round pushed securely into the chamber under pressure from the interchangeable spring-powered magazine - just like live ammunition in an M4 mag!

RAP4's 468 stood out on the showroom floor, rising above the sea of milsim, mil-spec, and woodsball gear, in the way it offers the most authentic military equipment experience possible...at a price point that makes it accessible to every player. RAP4 is committed to building magazine-fed paintball, and championing it as the next big thing in hyper-realistic gaming...and even force-on-force training.

You may have met some of the law enforcement officers and military personnel touring the Paintball Expo. Some of them were familiar faces around the RAP4 booth, and we made many new friends as we demonstrated how the 468 seamlessly crosses over from a tactical gaming marker to a practical training marker useful for reinforcing tactical doctrine.

Personnel who deploy with an M4 in their squad car or their MRAP can - and do - use the 468 to train with character actors, opposing forces, and their squad mates, in the most realistic force-on-force training possible. The 468 allows them to shoot actual projectiles at each other with complete safety, and without any of the ballistic concerns of shooting live ammunition...meaning that they can train in proper shoot houses or borrowed facilities, abandoned structures or rented buildings, to make their training as applicable to their jobs as possible and truly as real as it gets.

The 468's ability to interchangeably shoot paintballs, marking training rounds, non-marking training rounds, and even clear water-based training rounds, means that for a fraction of the cost of live ammunition, personnel can train just about anywhere...as perfectly demonstrated in our portable shooting booth at Paintball Expo!

Check out our YouTube channel for some footage from the Paintball Expo, and be sure to visit our Facebook site. Did you make it to the show? Drop us a line, and tell us about the best new gear you found there...and let us know what you thought of the RAP4 booth. We're always excited to meet our players!
 

RAP4 At International Defence Exhibition UAE Abu Dhabi

 

RAP4 proudly presented the 468 at this year's International Defense Exhibition (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi...where we join forces with Laser Shot to demonstrate the 468's amazing training applications!

IDEX brings together the top defense companies, military commanders, and government representatives for a five day trade show packed full of the absolute latest in land, sea, and air warfare technology. From the next generation of infantry rifles to state of the art missile interception systems, IDEX is the premier stage for introducing cutting edge equipment for the world's militaries. It was the perfect place to demonstrate Laser Shot's dynamic integration of the 468 with their digital combat simulator.

Lead RAP4 designer Omar Macy takes you through the integration of a real 468 and a simulated combat scenario, on the scene at IDEX 2013.

The 468 and Laser Shot garnered a lot of attention from commanders looking for safer, more cost-effective ways of training their personnel. They were quite impressed with the way Laser Shot's interactive digital training system projects tactical scenarios on one or multiple screens. Personnel then interact with the simulation, and their commands and behaviors have a direct impact on outcomes...as controlled by complicated software and directed by their training officer.

When it comes time to use force to solve a tactical situation, the personnel training with the Laser Shot system engage the screen directly...with a 468 shooting rubber training rounds. By firing an actual carbine shooting actual projectiles, they achieve a level of realism not afforded by any other simulator. The Laser Shot system has a special camera designed to record the impact points of each round...

...so the simulated enemy targets react when they're hit. And they react right where they're hit, too - in the leg, in the torso, or wherever else the personnel put that rubber training round. The difference between surviving the scenario and perishing comes down to proper tactics and excellent marksmanship delivered in a split second. That training does not involve live ammunition, meaning the simulator can be set up virtually anywhere - including security checkpoints and inside secure facilities so that with the 468 and Laser Shot personnel can train like they're going to fight...right where they might have to fight!

The magazine-fed, compressed air powered 468 is already in use with many military units and law enforcement trainers for force-on-force training, and now, can be utilized in conjunction with Laser Shot's tactical simulators. See what the industry is talking about when you check out Omar's video!

Real Action Paintball - As Real as it Gets!