Modern US Kit DEV

Modern US Kit DEV is a standalone US Army NPC equipment addon for development testing. Regular troops wear matching Multicam Crye G3/AVS; 17 SF variants use black uniforms and carriers. Fixed role-appropriate bags, masks, eyewear, pouches, patches and helmet accessories remain. All-hours kits provide worn PVS31 for regular troops and dual/quad NVGs for SF. Five vehicle/aviation crews retain specialist helmets and carry a complete spare NVG helmet; no automatic helmet swap is performed.

Night vision behavior is NPC-only and authoritative: worn compatible goggles with a battery deploy at night and improve native recognition speed while retaining normal line of sight and AI skill. Daylight or equipment removal stops the benefit. Carried goggles do not help until worn. Player possession hands control to the existing GRS player system; player spawn, respawn and saved kits are unchanged.

Scope: 50 owned troop variants, 31 populated native US group mappings and the audited campaign AI leaf. Use the Modern US Kit editor entries or supported native group prefabs. Direct custom spawns of shared vanilla characters, scripted kits and competing faction/loadout overrides may require an adapter. Native US faction identity remains.

Player spawn/respawn and saved-kit configuration are not changed. No DP, Project Outbreak, Grave Signal, RHS or map/scenario dependency is required.

DEV VALIDATION: all 50 kits construct with all 1,236 expected supplies. Native local day/night/day tests cover eight active roles. At 100 m, counterbalanced trials measured 28.5% faster median night target recognition with goggles, similar daytime results, and no recognition through tested terrain occlusion. Eighteen local guard checks include player possession and equipment removal. The exact local package also passed dedicated initial join, empty-server retention, late join with new spawns, and rejoin (15 to 24 NPCs, 74 checked equipped role/resource combinations). All three clients received and consumed both night-deployed and daylight-stowed NVG states. One account and sequential clients; these are measured local results, not a guarantee across every weather, range or server pack.

DEV LIMITS: upstream accessory/backpack collision geometry and material diagnostics remain. Loose-item drop/loot, general AI combat, other gadgets, armour, player respawn/saved kits, Conflict/custom scenarios and persistence are not accepted. Goggles were invisible in static previews. N4 receiver/handguard retain supplied tan finish with black accessories; native radio packs, launchers and a suppressed M203 remain where needed. No third-party asset is modified or repackaged.

All third-party equipment remains in its official Workshop dependencies. No third-party assets are copied or repackaged. Original configuration is published under APL; dependency content retains its own terms.

Credits: GRS creators, including GRS_Meatball for Moveske N4 and Weapon Attachments; Bacon and credited contributors for M4/URG-I, M17, suppressors and laser attachments; MK46/MK48, FIXED and M249 Rails creators/contributors; Phaseline Marksman Rifles creators/contributors. Please support the original listings.

Required dependency closure (versions tested):
GRS - Apparel 1.0.68 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/65157D09F042428A
GRS - Modular Vests & Rigs 1.0.45 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/651834C8D77BF86B
GRS NVGS 1.1.1 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6A2A460F6FE4B59A
GRS - Patches 1.0.27 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/657B064AE0E231DF
GRS - Dev Framework 1.0.55 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/65DACC64CE785B6C
GRS - Essentials 1.0.70 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6515672F96701110
M4 Block II and URG-I 1.7.0 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5AB890B71D748750
Bacon Suppressors 1.2.7 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5AB301290317994A
RIS Laser Attachments 1.8.0 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5ABD0CB57F7E9EB1
M17 Pistol 1.0.16 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5CA6BA2F63DE1174
MK46-MK48 1.0.25 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6190E1D2CF0A921D
MK46 & MK48 FIXED 1.0.6 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/694633B6F415DF18
M249 Scope Rails 1.6.0 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5AF6E0F075D79473
Phaseline Marksman Rifles 1.0.4 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/BFC890A6F1603EC0
GRS Belts & Bags & Droplegs 1.0.59 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/65183608D6DA5728
GRS Moveske N4 1.0.4 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6A8A6DF8DCE171A0
GRS Weapon Attachments 1.0.4 - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6A8C28E201128C13