Whats the deal with tri-zip backpacks?

>>872260
>>>/hm/

>>872260
those montanna backpack guys made one for the army. spec ops liked it and handed them out to every ranger, sapper and eod. the tryhards saw that the highspeeds used them and started to buy them. at that point camelback licenced the design and made a cheaper version.

once that happened all the civies and nasty girls decided they wanted one too. now there are cheap chinese knock offs.

>>872839
this except rangers are not highspeed

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Are there advantages over normal clamshell packs?

>>873168
Less wear on one zipper. Easier to get acces to different parts without opening entire backpack

>>873132
Compared to the rest of the US Army they are

what's a highspeed

you fucking cool kids with your shibboleth

>>873174

If you're so worried about zipper wear, why use coil zippers? Or is that the aforementioned knockoff?

Meanwhile, spec ops snobs should be aware that the fact that the regular army might adopt some of their gear in a fast-tracked procurement cycle is part of how Congress got sold on letting SOCOM do their own procurement in the first place. So you can thank the tryhards for de-fucking your bureaucratic headaches a little (as much as is even possible in a large national military).

>>873216
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogOl-07wTvc

>>873174
And also harder to stuff and slower to close.

Had a maxped trizip, tried to love it but ultimately less useful than a regular pack imo.

Perfect example of form over function, people buy them because they're 'cool'