Australian Combat Vest DPCU / Zip-Loc Vest

Auscam Vest DPCU 
DPCU Auscam Military Vest
Combat Clothing Australia PTY LTD

https://www.iso-group.com/NSNIndex/55373

NSN : 8465-66-147-6282

As part of Phase 2B of the Land 125 Soldier Combat System Program, development of Individual Combat Load Carriage Equipment (ICLCE) commenced to find a better solution to the age-old problem of enabling the individual soldier to carry what he needs into the battlefield without burdening him to the point of being detrimental to combat effectiveness.

In deference to soldiers traditional penchant for customising personal webbing the new ICLCE goes to new lengths in providing a platform by which different pouches can be affixed onto the vest in a variety of configurations.

Trials in Timor-LEste were conducted with regular infantry units being issued with an experimental set of webbing vest, colloqially coined zip-loc webbing as pouches were often affixed to the vest using cable-ties (in reality there was a packet of green plastic threaded washers available for this task but they were seldom issued with the vests). Although the units issued with the vest liked the modularity of the system, the material construction of the equipment did not lend itself to the rigours of operational demand and the webbing system was soon withdrawn from regular battalions and re-issued instead to certain reserve units.

The Land 125 ICLCE was designed not only to improve on the zip-loc webbing but also incorporate features from parallel webbing developments occuring in other countries. Consequently, the ICLCE adopted the interlocking webbing tape fastening system first utilised by the MOLLE webbing system developed for the US Marines. The material construction has also been improved resulting in greater durability in operational, particularly sub-tropical areas.


Reports are that the webbing is popular with the end-users. Heat retention issues are moot as the system is worn over a ballistic vest anyway. Current issue ballistic vests now also feature the MOLLE latticework to allow affixing ICLCE pouches directly onto the vest itself.