Airsoft Action - September 2023
Welcome to another full-to-the-brim copy of AIRSOFT ACTION, and to kick things off this month we’ve gone a bit “polymer crazy” as we focus on THREE new models, all of which are polymer-bodied! Headlining this time is our “take” on the final production version of the VORSK VMP-1, and Jimmy, Ben and Bill have all been hammering this new GBB to find out if the reality lives up to the promise (spoiler… it DOES!). Bill then gets properly involved with the G&G FAR 556 (yes, a FOLDING AR!) and the latest entry-level AEG from HUNTSMAN TACTICAL that’s sure to please many players on a budget! Miguel lands his report on the VIPER VX GEN2 Plate Carrier after some heavy use and abuse, the LEGION get into their favourite Multicam kit as a new sequence of THE CAGE commences, and Stewbacca, ably assisted by Military Anny, continues to delve “Inside Airsoft”, meeting some of the people behind the "names" as they visit RA-TECH and Soloman Taiwan. There’s FIFTEEN more AR SBR AEG models under the spotlight as RED CELL reach the halfway point of their extended testing program, and Bill gets techy (a rare thing indeed!) with an awesome thermal sight from HIKMICRO! To round things out this month there are a couple of mammoth AA LEGION reports the first of which covers some very special CQB Training in the UK, along with Stewbacca's report on the now-annual POLK 3 MilSim game in Taiwan… if you like your airsoft hot and full-on then you need to check this out! As usual we hope that there’s a little of something for everyone to dip into this month; and remember… “If it’s in airsoft, it’s in AIRSOFT ACTION”!
Welcome to another full-to-the-brim copy of AIRSOFT ACTION, and to kick things off this month we’ve gone a bit “polymer crazy” as we focus on THREE new models, all of which are polymer-bodied!
Headlining this time is our “take” on the final production version of the VORSK VMP-1, and Jimmy, Ben and Bill have all been hammering this new GBB to find out if the reality lives up to the promise (spoiler… it DOES!). Bill then gets properly involved with the G&G FAR 556 (yes, a FOLDING AR!) and the latest entry-level AEG from HUNTSMAN TACTICAL that’s sure to please many players on a budget!
Miguel lands his report on the VIPER VX GEN2 Plate Carrier after some heavy use and abuse, the LEGION get into their favourite Multicam kit as a new sequence of THE CAGE commences, and Stewbacca, ably assisted by Military Anny, continues to delve “Inside Airsoft”, meeting some of the people behind the "names" as they visit RA-TECH and Soloman Taiwan.
There’s FIFTEEN more AR SBR AEG models under the spotlight as RED CELL reach the halfway point of their extended testing program, and Bill gets techy (a rare thing indeed!) with an awesome thermal sight from HIKMICRO!
To round things out this month there are a couple of mammoth AA LEGION reports the first of which covers some very special CQB Training in the UK, along with Stewbacca's report on the now-annual POLK 3 MilSim game in Taiwan… if you like your airsoft hot and full-on then you need to check this out!
As usual we hope that there’s a little of something for everyone to dip into this month; and remember… “If it’s in airsoft, it’s in AIRSOFT ACTION”!
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INSIDE AIRSOFT<br />
RED ALERT TECH<br />
at the show were duly impressed by what they have<br />
been turning out, and as covered in my N4 review,<br />
many of them were lining up to get hands-on in the<br />
field… and a few of them have made the outlay for<br />
themselves to attain the quality and performance the<br />
licensed turnkey platforms offer.<br />
TOUR-MODE ENGAGED!<br />
Anny helpfully kept in contact with them directly after<br />
MOA and eventually helped organise our collaborative<br />
effort when we found time for us both to head out<br />
and do a site visit with them and spend the day<br />
getting to know the people behind the products in<br />
greater detail. Taking the train from Taipei main all the<br />
way to Hualien (directly opposite Taichung on the west<br />
coast) meant a very early morning start for us; taking<br />
a leisurely saunter through the beautiful countryside<br />
of northeast Taiwan all the way down the coast and to<br />
Ji’an station not far from RATech’s headquarters, with<br />
Johnny himself picking us up from the station and<br />
chauffeuring us to their facility a few blocks away..<br />
Taiwanese hospitality is a constant as warm as the<br />
weather out here, I have found.<br />
We got settled in and had a tour of their facilities as<br />
well as meeting their staff in various divisions, getting<br />
the low-down on recent and upcoming products,<br />
taking photos of their production and distribution<br />
facilities, and then sat down in Johnny’s upper-floor<br />
office to get the low-down on his own origin story<br />
in the airsoft industry, and how RATech, and <strong>Airsoft</strong><br />
Taiwan, came to be where they are today.<br />
Anny has the advantage of better understanding<br />
the native language and culture, and thus she can<br />
ask the more nuanced questions and strike a more<br />
personal tone to get a better understanding on the<br />
people and history side which really compliments<br />
my own more ‘brass tacks’ business and technical<br />
approach… and of course some things don’t translate<br />
readily on the fly so it helps to have both of us<br />
covering off different aspects of the on-site visits!<br />
One of the main aspects she gleaned from Johnny<br />
was the core philosophy that one of his Hong Kong<br />
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