That does sound more than reasonable, and probably cost-effective as well. The problem with a lot of military gear is they have the "not invented here" mentality. If it doesn't come out of Natick or Aberdeen (in the US) or some similar place, it gets ignored by the military bureaucracy, which forces the troops to buy the stuff they really need on the "civilian" market. Sad, but it has been that way for more than 200 years.