Country of Design: United States United States Air Force
Black top with armour pads, centre front zip and two red highlighting stripes down each front side side. Over the left chest is an applied badge with a red line and 'HIPROTEC®' underneath four pictograms of a skier, a motor cross rider, a motorbike rider and a snowboarder.
It has a short stand collar and cuffs of the same black stretch jersey of the main body of the top. There are black airtex panels under the arms and the underside of each sleeve. It has two triangular shaped pads on the chest and two larger pads over the shoulder blades at the back.
The back of the top has a large padded panel with curved edges down the spine which is trimmed with lines of grey reflective tape. Over the lower back is a zipped pocket.
Hein Gericke GmBHBlack mesh and airtex top with long sleeves and hard armour protective pads at elbows, shoulders, chest and spine. It fastens centre front with a black zip and has two very wide wrap over belt sections at the waist which velcro together. At the chest and forearms are black webbing straps which can be tightened. The spine protection down the back is in seven shaped sections and covers the lower back at the bottom.
Designed to be worn as underwear, underneath an outer garment. No makers label. Labelled 'S' in the back of the neck.
Designer unknown