I know a lot of lads are moving towards using Osprey with pouches atached drectly to the armour, I tried this and for a rifleman it's quite good, you just have to make sure you distribute the wight evenly and don't have it all hanging off your front or it's a hangout anyway to the point. Whilst the modular idea is good are there any plans to actually issue properly compatible MLCE type pouches like the yanks have as I have used these on Osprey and they fit erfectly and hold securely as a pose to the issued pouches which don't stay nearly as secure and rigid, unless you bodge them on. But the MLCE attachments are awesome.