Russian PMK-3 Gas Mask

hey everyone do can have it 3d here with another mask in my collection to show off for you guys and today I have for you as the title suggests D Russian Bratva gasps modern a zero Venoy constructs III or PM k three gas masks as it's known this one was sent to me with another mask which I'll be reviewing shortly after this by our good old friend hype in the R / gas masks official discord you can check out our / gas masks and join the discord through there but anyways back onto the masks not really much that I know in history about the p.m. k3 this is pretty much Russia's current issue masks they are attempting to replace it with the PM k4 but so far the PM k4 as of the time of making this video is still an experimental phase so PM kiiis and older PM k two's ones and possibly even older Genma asks and least been used for training are still in use with russia today but the most prominent masks and the russian military is the PM k3 it was designed presumably sometime around the mid 1990s as an upgrade to the PM k2 series which used the mb 180 facepiece which allowed for the bayonet style adapters to be swapped out on either side of the face piece and the PM k3 which used the mb to face piece took it a step further and they've sort of refined all of the ergonomics with the face piece they added an internal oral nasal cup and a much improved drinking device on the chin rather than on the quilt around the voice diaphragm with that poor infamously poor quality tubing that i've mentioned in previous PM k reviews it did improve a lot however it all as with most advancements in russian gas mask development it was sort of a take one step forward take two steps back sort of deal because with every advancement that was added to this there was a lot of integrity that was sacrificed in the process and I'll get into that in a moment there really isn't too much else to say about this mask I know that there is a not a whole lot of variant to this it's just I pretty sure that there are commercial variants of this mask made by Tambov mash but this particular example is the military PM k3 kit so without further ado before I try and pull references and resources out of my ass that I haven't really studied for yet allow me to get into the kit here so first off is the carrier which again this is probably the first thing that's the biggest step down from the older PM k2 carriers which had reinforcements plastic panels lining it which would have made the mask easier to put in but this is just a loose floppy carrier not really much to it it opens with the same velcro and single lift-the-dot style snap as you can see this me out of this vs r98 flora sort of mesh material I believe this is actually a material used on a specific Russian chemical suit that's also designed for this mask I don't know the designation of it if you do know the designation of the suit that's made of this material for you feel free to inform me down in the comments below again I don't know too much about this material but the carrier is obviously a big step down from the older pmk carriers you can see the markings on the interior I believe that is the manufacturer date of 2005 there is a TA inspection stamp and really not all that much is different from the original pmk carriers aside from the material and the lack of reinforcement because it has the same two pouches spanning the interior of the carrier for the waterproofing bag anti-fog inserts etc and then you had like this pocket over on the side for a personal decontamination kit of some sort probably an IP p8 I could be wrong on that to probably use something different nowadays the it has a typical belt loop on the back it has a thin shoulder strap which can be removed with a a snap and d-ring the this particular carrier is a bit worse for wear because I notice the d-rings are starting to rust I'll have to do something about that make sure they don't rust further then they have a waist strap here which nothing pretty self-explanatory nothing really to mention about that here we have the face form for the mask which was used to keep it from warping while in storage and this one is different from the normal ones because you see this one has a cutout along the bottom for presumably the drinking device honestly that's the only reason why I could have thought they added this really but other than that pretty typical face form you have the anti fog lens out certs here which are specially shaped for the PM kiiis elliptical eyepieces and i've heard that these are the biggest pain in the ass to install out of any type of lens out cert system so and plus it makes the mask look pretty ridiculous so I would probably avoid these unless you absolutely had to use them say if the temperature required you to have the outsource but other than that they're pretty terrible you have the the hydrophobic winterization slash mud guard sock which would go over the canister I am missing the plastic spacer ring that would elevate the fabric from the caster Inlet but it would still work with it regardless we have the rubber bands which are used for time I believe for tying off the waterproofing kit which again I am lacking the waterproofing bag in which a person says he lost well out an airsoft match unfortunately so that's not too big a deal I got this mask for free so I'm not complaining you have the user information tag where a plastic card would be inserted into this and then sewn onto the side of the carrier to indicate who the mask was issued to yea the Anti Fog lens inserts which actually did not come with the set I actually picked these up during my visit with moulage earlier this month and so I actually had these on hand luckily because this kit was actually missing them so that's something to be thankful for you have the canister here which again I don't know the designation the canister I have yet to translate the type of canister it's the typical bayonet style canister similar to the p MK 2 s or this one is a more brownish olive rather than the green olive one that I have was my p MK 2 a typical filter plug on the bottom you got a screw off cap and this one actually came with the bayonet 240 millimeter GOST adapter on it so I'm thankful I have one of those now and then we have the mask itself with the drinking device which I have inserted for the sake of the video the drinking device as I said it was a big step up from the older PM k to drink device but it also has its flaws namely in that you have to screw it onto the canteen in order to use it and we would become a problem in gaseous and contaminated environments where anything in the air could potentially affect the water and then the attachment of the mask isn't that bad there is a sort of spring-loaded system on the adapter on the mask end and then this sort of pushes into that and then they have a little cap here that sort of locks on to it you twist it unfortunately the o-rings on this adapter one of them had completely shorn free it was completely stretched out and just terrible but one of them is still fine so I'd imagine the system still seals and functions I have yet to actually drink through this yet so I may test it out later and kind of update you guys on how that really works it is a very intrusive drinking system but I'll get into that in a moment now you have the mask itself very unique appearance for a Russian mask it's much different than the P older pmk masks with their in fact they're notable triangular eyepieces where this one has as stated before the large elliptical eyepieces which would have allowed for a wider range of vision and sit much closer to the face in addition to having the upgraded eyepieces and rigging system the entire face blank mold is been slightly altered in various ways for one thing the rubber is much thinner the sizes tend to run a bit larger like this one I usually sit a fit of Russian size 3 PM k but this one is also a size 3 and it is entirely way too large on me so just keep that in mind when you're buying a PM k3 is that these sizes will run larger than AP MK 2 or 1 you have the typical voice diaphragm here it is a little bit different on the inside to accommodate further how the nose cup attaches but other than that is a standard PM K series diaphragm you have the the blanking plug on one side and you have the 40 millimeter GOST adaptor on the other and you have the typical threaded double outlet valve which I've screwed on their mighty tight so I'm not gonna try not do that for the video typical 5 point harness again not the greatest design if you apply silicone to it it's not as bad as it really really would have been but I imagine most of you aren't going to be using silicone on this mask and so pretty unbearable harness and you can sort of see the unique mould contours of the mask that would allow for the airflow and all that etcetera the biggest complaint that I have with the mask other than its general sort of janky nice and loose floppy thin feeling to it the biggest issue that I have with the mask as its breathing resistance there is a very narrow passage for the air to travel from the internal deflector up into the nose Cup everything is just sort of squished together and so it really gives you a very claustrophobic feeling and it's is not a very enjoyable mask to breathe through I may try and adjust the position of the deflector to remedy this but other than that I have not really been enjoying how this mask breathe really not much else to say about the externals there is some markings right here that you probably can't see you have a face piece mold of number three a very early mold and then that you can see it is made in Tambov mash in the fourth quarter of 2004 so fairly recent mask kind of an OL and early mold and then I'll take it off the head here give you a better look at some of the external x' and then I'll try and demonstrate the inside of the face piece but I may have to remove the lower points of the harness to do that here is a good look at the drinking device on the chin piece here and the person that sent me this actually proved that you can remove these drinking devices and install them on GP 21 face pieces I don't know why you would want to because a cheapy 1:21 is terrible but nevertheless the GP 21 can actually accept these drinking devices if you have one and you can easily convert it into a p MK 5 which obviously the p MK 5 was never adopted in that configuration and there the Russian military is looking into the p MK 4 currently but anyways I digress onto the internals let me let me undo the harness here which thankfully is going to be easy to do since I applied silicone to pretty much everything and everything is nice and smooth and there's no bloom left over because actually the person illness before whenever he would wear the mask and needed to wash it off he used like some sort of solvent and that actually effectively removed 90% of the bloom on this mask and so it made my job much easier for applying silicone where I didn't need to scratch off a shit-ton a bloom and so he si said that would be a debt that was a detriment to the rubber but honestly it actually made my job a lot easier anyways reversing the harness here you can get a good look on the interior of the face piece the first thing that you'll notice is that the face seal is a loose floppy mess this mask is entirely way too thin it still does its job but it is a very very thin mask for a military mask and as you can see due to that thinness it causes all of the thinner portions of the mask to warp you can also see the drinking tube throughout the bottom of the face piece there extending portes you can see the voice diaphragms throughout the center and the metal culvert or ferrule that holds the nose cup into the outlet valve and probably the most laughable part of the nose Cup for me is the fact that they couldn't even mold it as one solid continuous seal but they had to add two studs on either side to keep that peripheral seal folded down over itself it's okay I don't know why they do these things I don't know what Russia is doing over there and as you can see the nose cup is a bit chewed up and it's quite warped and it tries to mimic the Avon style nose cups where as you can see it has a big shoot on the top where the air would enter but it functions relatively well it's just a very generous nose Cup but really not too much to say about it as you can see it's sort of coming out from beneath or around the voice 2 meter so you did tuck that back in there okay that's back in there so really not much to say about the internals the only other thing to note is that near the temples there are these little rubber bridges here if you can sort of see that and what those do is that presses the face seal into your temples for a better seal it doesn't really feel all that bad it's actually quite comfortable this is a very comfy Russian mask aside from the head harness issues and the the drinking device constantly poking you in the upper lip and maybe even into the nose but it's it's still a very comfortable mask aside from those issues and it's quite certainly very uh it's a decent design but they there needs a lot of improvement into it personally but overall I'd give it like maybe freaking 6 out of 10 maybe just just for those added flaws but they they took it step in the right direction but they didn't really know how to approach it and they were still clinging to a lot of their antiquated and archaic manufacturing processes but you know I give them an A for effort at least so that really much covers it on this mask that's really all I have to say I don't think I missed anything if I did feel free to inform me down the comments below that being said I'm duped into 3d if you have any comments questions Corrections or concerns again drop them down the comments below and I'll see you all later

Channel: GasMaskBunker

Views: 4,040

Rating: 4.8333335 out of 5

Keywords:

Id: GKhH3zEoZuE

Length: 13min 12sec (792 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 03 2019