SPECIAL REPORT
Tactical Response Bags
Ammo Box Bag is ideal for packing and storing your odd-size and heavy gear.
Under the Radar BLACKHAWK!’s last new bag is the Under the Radar Series. These bags and pouches are designed to prevent your elec- tronics from being scanned. Zero Trace® signal-blocking technology lines these bags and pouches. In this day and age of ID and information theft, Under the Radar prevents your gear from being scanned or phished by unauthorized personnel. While your duty electronics may be en-
The padded divider secures the uppers of two M4s and the lowers are under the padded dividers.
The Go “Box Mag” Bag is designed to
carry magazines of all sizes and shapes; essentially a bag to keep you in the fi ght should you run out of your basic load. Many folks may joke about the need to carry an extra half-dozen AR magazines or a dozen handgun magazines--until they are needed. Over the last decade or so, we can fi nd many cases where there have been true “movie”-style shootouts and the offi cers discharge hundreds of rounds. Like the Brick, the Box Mag is a rectan-
gular dual-zipper close bag with several dividers to secure magazines or other gear. The Box is big enough to hold a bunch of 20-round AR magazines and/ or a couple of boxes of 25 shotgun shells.
This means you can easily pack various boxed less-lethal rounds to support your less-lethal launcher, i.e., various rounds for the 37mm or 40mm launcher. This bag will also make a good bag for
your TEMS Medic, thanks to the three sided zippers. With this versatility, you need a way to identify the contents, so BLACKHAWK! provides a removable identifi cation tag. Lastly, since this bag is meant to support operations, it is built to carry, either with handles or remov- able backpack straps. The last of the Go Bags we looked at
was the Ammo Box. This bag is designed to give the carry capacity of 50-caliber and 30-caliber machine-gun ammuni- tion boxes. What that means is you can carry over 1,000 45 ACP rounds in the 50 BMG Ammo Box Bag and more than a thousand 9mm in the 30-caliber Ammo Box. The upside is you can do that without the weight of the box. You need not worry
Zippered shut, the Diversion Series looks like you are ready for your preferred workout.
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about the bottom of the bag giving way under the weight of the ammo; the carry handles wrap the reinforced bottom. Like other Go Bags, there is a removable identification tag. Limited only by your imagination or physical capacity of the bag, the
crypted (your tablet, smartphone or lap- top), are you sure the encryption cannot be defeated? Are your personal electronics, credit cards, passport, identi-scan IDs se- cure? Most likely the answer is no; Under the Radar can protect your electronics and various RFID-equipped cards simply by putting them in the appropriate pouch or messenger bag. BLACKHAWK! has pouches to fi t your
various-sized handheld devices and mes- senger bags to fi t laptops up to 17 inches. When on the road, I store my credit cards and smartphone in one, especially when going through the airport or malls. These pouches and bags will defeat electronic scanning to help keep your agency, per- sonal and fi nancial information secure. The downside is you will have to take
your phone out of the pouch to check calls, e-mail and text messages because these signals are blocked too. I prefer the secu- rity of having my phone in my Under the Radar pouch and missing a call when en route over having all the information on my smartphone being easily hacked. This coverage of carry duty and per-
sonal gear is but a few of the bags BLACK- HAWK! offers to meet you or your agency’s needs. From personal experience, I can tell you these bags are durable, ver- satile and have survived numerous road trips. BLACKHAWK!’s bags kept my fi re- arms and gear where I stowed them and my M4’s optics never required zeroing. Reader Service Number 210
Scott Smith is a former USAF Security Policeman and IDPA/USPSA competitor. He can he reached at
hpshooter@lycos.com.
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