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Originally Posted by Rob
... the term seems to have poped up on this board around the time the fancier chest rigs and plate carriers turned up on the market so i'm guessing it has something to do with that.
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Fancy kit has been around for as long as normal kit has been... it's not like high end gear is anything new.
That said anything high speed and low drag is basically something that is very well thought out (high speed, as in no time is wasted in the field... everything has it's place and is efficient as possible) and without useless crap on it (low drag... a lot of people in the field carry crap they'll use once a year on them all the time. Drag... things that hold you back or are unnecessary). In reference to mag pouches... lets take the Diamondback tiered mag pouches as an example. They are very well planned pouches. They are staggered so that the back magazine sits an inch higher then the front magazine in the pouch so that the operator can grab mags very easily as compared to BHI pouches where the mag tops sit flush with each other. The diamondback pouches are highspeed in that sense and low drag in the sense that there's not grenade pouches hanging off the sides of em and they don't have shot shell holders all over the place. That's low drag.
That phrase though can refer to almost anything. Not just gear. Anything efficient, solidly planned and straightforward without anything unnecessary can be called highspeed low drag. Issued kit can be high speed if it's setup properly... it doesn't just refer to the gucci stuff.