Foldable ladder

[andyboy]

Hello all,

I guess this is the best place to post this so here goes. Does anyone here have any experience with the Quickstep foldable ladder? I understand it may have gone through some trials with the USMC and I was wondering how they are. IF you have used them did they have a ballistic blanket component and if they did how were they?

Thanks in advance.

[Sharky]

We started using them in 88. Thank god, because I was running through uniforms faster than I could DX them. Never heard about no ballistic blanket shit for them though. We used flex cuffs and plywood.

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[andyboy]

Thanks for the reply, I work for a company that makes ballistic products, among other things, and I was looking for some real world feed back on them.

How do you employ them,I'm not looking for any tactics but would you typically just deploy them once at the obj or would you fold and deploy them several times for movement etc? When you say plywood does that mean you made a sort of bridge out of them? That's interesting...

Again thanks for the response, anything else you could tell me would be great.

[Sharky]

Mostly used for breaching concertina as a bridge like you said. Sure beat the old human breach (Me). Could also be used as a field-expedient stretcher. Cut the flex cuffs that hold the plywood on and voila, you can use it as a ladder in MOUT settings. Hope that helps.

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