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72 pattern webbing
The 1972 Pattern Webbing was intended to replace the 58 pattern webbing, but never got beyond user trials. It was made from PU-coated nylon to counter the Soviet NBC capability with a general look closer to a load-bearing vest.
58 pattern webbing
.jpg?width=200 "Rear pouches of a Sierra Leonean soldier's 1958 Web Equipment")
![[[Caribbean Peace Force]] personnel from various contingents wearing 1958 Web Equipment](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eastern Caribbean Defense Force.jpg?width=200 "[[Caribbean Peace Force]] personnel from various contingents wearing 1958 Web Equipment")
![[[Queen's Dragoon Guards]] soldier wearing 1958 Web Equipment in the lead-up to the [[Gulf War]]; the Web Equipment saw its last major operational use in British service during this conflict](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Weapons training at Abu Hydra Range during Operation Desert Shield DM-ST-91-11992.jpg?width=200 "[[Queen's Dragoon Guards]] soldier wearing 1958 Web Equipment in the lead-up to the [[Gulf War]]; the Web Equipment saw its last major operational use in British service during this conflict")
1958 Pattern Web Equipment was a modular personal equipment system issued to the British Armed Forces from 1959 up until the mid 90s. It replaced the 1937 Pattern Web Equipment that had served the UK's Armed Forces through the Second World War and the first decade of the Cold War and also the 1944 pattern Webbing which was used in jungle conditions starting from the mid-1960s.
61 pattern webbing
The 1961 pattern webbing equipment was issued to the South African army and the Rhodesian army as the 69 pattern webbing. It was based on the British 1958 pattern.
