REVIEW: Crye Precision Smart Pouch Suite

Handbags are to women what MOLLE pouches are to men. You can collect, trade, show off, use, and flaunt them. And you can do the latter especially well with these, because this is the Smart Pouch Suite from Crye Precision. While we usually think of uniforms and plate carriers like JPC, AVS, CPC, and the like, Crye also offers its own bag system, which is well designed and structured. We'll take you through the Smart Pouch Suite and present the bags individually.

Here's an overview, but with all the bags displayed upside down.

Crye themselves have a beautiful presentation, showing that there are six bags and accessories.

What's special about these bags is that they are MOLLE-compatible with a laser-cut system on the back, cut from Hypalon. However, the bags also have two other integrated attachment systems. They fit on a belt and on the harness of an AVS plate carrier.

Starting small: this is the hand grenade pouch (Frag Pouch). It can be mounted upright or upside down. And it can be opened with one hand.

Crye has very nice illustrations of what fits inside:

• Hand grenade
• Five 12 Gauge shotgun shells (with optional insert)
• Handcuffs
• Two cans of tobacco

Crye has successfully tried to combine several bags into one that has various applications. The adjustment is made with Shock Cord. The bag here is the 6.56-7.62, MBITR Pouch. The flap can also be attached to the back to carry the bag open.

And this is what it's for:

• One or two 30-round 5.56 magazines
• 25-round 7.62x51 (.308) magazine
• MBITR radio
• Pistol with weapon light
• Smoke grenade
• Thermobaric grenade
• 1/2 liter bottle of water

Narrower and taller is the 152/Bottle Pouch. It also has an adjustable width and the option to carry it open.

Content recommendation from the manufacturer:

• PRC 152 radio
• MBITR radio
• 1 liter water bottle
• SureFire® 60-round magazine
• IZLID Ultra
• One or two 30-round 5.56 magazines
• Two 25-round 7.62x51 SR-25 magazines
• One 20-round 7.62x51 magazine (Polymer HK)

Small and square, this is the GP Pouch 6x6x3 - it comes with the SSE Bag, which quickly gives you volume if there's something to plunder (about 40 x 40 cm when unfolded, can be attached to the belt).

Two Velcro inserts are also good for the Crye bags: one is for shotgun shells, the other for 40mm ammunition or flashbangs.

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