Soviet Military Gas Masks (Cold War)

a lot of you asked me could I do a video on my Soviet gas masks so that's exactly what I'm gonna do however the first masking eliska's list is not going to be Soviet it's going to be polish and the reason for that is I don't have the famous Soviet SH m41 gas mask which is an important mask historically so I think around World War two or at least at the end of World War two the Soviets came out with a mouse called the SH M 1 and the SH M 1 was basically the masks all the gp5 type masks would eventually come from now they're technically known as helmet masks and they have a latex hood but if I explain them as a GP five masks everybody will know what I'm on about so later on there you have the improved version the SH M 41 and this is the really famous one now this is the Polish OM 14 it's a very straightforward copy of the SH M 41 the only difference is it has this cool looking sort of chrome e metal on it rather than the brown metal de Soviets used and it's sort of a wider latex rather than the grey one but other than that it's the exact same thing so the idea was that you had a clicked foot on the foot that connected via to a big canister filter you warned about in a half a sec so the mask is pretty straightforward not much to it there does actually have a Tissot system there so in terms of technicality the SH m41 is the one kick start everything off and I think the gp5 technical designation is SH m62 but everybody knows it as the GP v is in the g5 kit but there you go although this is a stand-in this is the masculine we'll start off with raw Soviet collection it's the polish om 14 but for the sake of this video it's standing in as the SH m41 next up we have our tank room and mask the MM one that star stands for mask membrane one apparently and it's called that because as I've always diaphragm on it there the plastic membrane that sits between the nose and the outside of the mask at the bottom we have the standard SH m41 intake outtake saying this is the brown soviet-type metal so a house forward-looking off six unlike something like gp5 sh m 41 for example these look forwards throughout them sideways that's ideal if you want to look for optics when in a tank it connects with a five-point head harness there which you can tighten with elastic on both sides and pretty straightforward and simple when I said you could just directly attach a filter to the mask if you wanted to like a lot of these masks but these are designed to use a hose where you could have the filter somewhere out of the way and it wouldn't get you know knocking to instruments or anything like that I said it's a early example of a Soviet mask with a voice diaphragm on and it's a surprisingly good voice diaphragm they copied out once and most of their masks that did use voice diaphragms and it does the job it's supposed to do I think it's quite a creepy looking mask it bears a lot of resemblance to the Soviet I think it's called the mt4 which was their World War two gas mask for the most part if you took had that mask and then took that off of it it'd be quite a similar thing there's one of the things you'll see with most Soviet military masks or even Soviet civil masks is that they have lots of common features where they can cheaply produce parts and fit them to other masks however logistics of making them for us one of the things the Soviets and the Russians have always been good with is logistics so there you go the Yemen one mask designed to tank crews very effective because it looks forwards and has a voice diaphragm so the mask we have here is the Soviet PMG mask it was basically designed as a lightweight gas mask most people are familiar with it from half-life 2 because it's the main influence behind metrocop mask now I have the gp5 filter on filter intake here normally you would have a double size filter but that's actually quite important because it must drag down too much to one side it has an interesting filter intake because it's mostly rubberized rather than being a metal screw you have your voice diaphragm here hidden behind there little plastic disc that's replaceable your XL valve is at the bottom here you've got to sort of forward-looking front flat plastic eyepieces and you've got this weird system at the top where it doesn't cover all the head at the back rather than being the full on latex hood then you have a strap system you can tighten to try and get a better seal with it it's generally quite a tight and uncomfortable mask although it was you know advertised pretty much as a lightweight gas mask it's not really that good in its role bit it's a very interesting mask to look at nonetheless next we have the PM g2 also known as the GP 5mm or GP six depending on who was actually given the mask but this is basically where the Soviets found a really cheap way of making a mask they can mass-produce for the military and anybody else they wanted to give it to so it's made of a latex same as all the other masks for the most part it's essentially a GP five it's called the GP five intake an outtake about the bottom but why it's got on the front is the MM one's voice diaphragm so what that means is you can speak far more clearly because GP 5s really do muffle your voice if you try to talk in one much one lots of other gas masks at the era do so you've got your standard eyepieces for it is essentially just a GP five the voice last time on the bunch and their holes in the sides apparently some different sizes of these sometimes come about the air holes and there might be versions of this mask of the voice die from my out the air house but the ispotter it has an ear hole so you can hear better a lot of people keep saying in the comments why did they put ear holes on this mask that's a really bad design decision you know you'll get killed from gas hitting your ears now it's not true because in the event that you needed a full body suit on to protect you from gas and NBC hood would go over their homes anyway it means that you can communicate more clearly about it if you look at nearly of every other gas mask that's not a Soviet one the ears are never covered anyway because the chemical hood would go over them but there you go the PM g2 is basically let's make a really cheap mass-producible mask that does all the features we want and then most soldiers or civilians or whatever else can have this mask now we have what my opinion is the best of all of the Soviet masks is the SH M s and this is a mask that was designed for snipers or other people that would need optical equipment it's got forward-facing small eyes the around the idea is you can put binoculars or scopes or artillery aiming devices straight on to the mask so that's really good it's got the same voice diaphragm we're familiar with it's got a better Tissot system the other masks that is those run up the side of the mask that and breathe onto the eyepieces there and it's got the same SH m41 intake I'll take at the bottom now an important thing to know is it's got ears on this but they are actually a fin a rubber here so you can hopefully hear better than the masks it simply we've had normal molds or you know no one ever at all users via hose connects to any sort of Soviet filter you want it to this hose has been covered in canvas or stocking that all those are just simply rubber so I said this is my favorite easily of the Soviet masks you get good vision with it you can use it with scopes and optics people can hear you clearly and it's quite a creepy-looking mask now we have a really weird mask it's the Soviet PBF and I'm not sure if this was issued to soldier's paratroopers or riot police or whatever but it's basically the Soviets take on trying to do an M 17 sheet filter mask so you have an XL valve and voice die from here that's all good you have cheek filters on each side that are actually easier to put in the nem 17 filters because they're sort of an even shape and the mask stretch here because it's Soviet rubber you've got your screw arm screw off caps to keep the filters in place you've got your flat eyepieces again like the Shems which are very good and you've got your cell membrane ears which are also good another interesting thing as this mark actually has an inner mask or an oral nasal cup so you can't forget up which is really sort of clever so the weird thing of this is this is a very sort of westernized Soviet mask in a sense it's got lots of the sort of nice little gimmicks on it that you'd expect from the Western asks of the period but they never bothered putting on the other masks now if this didn't take cheek filters because the exact same mask and maybe on each cheek you could screw on a 40 millimeter filter this would have been an exceptionally good mask the problem being they put in the cheek filters in it which I've done entire videos on it's a really stupid concept and it ruins a lot of masks that could have been quite good but regardless the PVS are very interesting novelty because it's basically what happen if the Soviets made a cheek filter mask and they made one of the best ones available but it's still a cheek filter mask and lastly we have the pmk respirator now is's probably lasts gas masks designer Soviet Union made I don't know if the PM k2 was actually post-soviet or the very end of the Soviet Union but this is in many ways of modernized masks and in many ways our failure of a modernized mask now when you first look at it you think this looks brilliant they've got big view triangular lenses they've got a voice diaphragm they've got a drinking tube they've got an exhale valve the points away from the mask it takes a newer type of filter all over still 40 millimeter GOST you can even get a filter sock with it but on my think that filter socks are on the wrong way but regardless I'll just take off so you guys you see the filter and all its glory the interesting interesting the filter they put on these now Maduri is still out on whether these filters are safe or not personally I would not trust them because they were still made to the same kind of design as the old gp5 type filters and we all know how many soviet filters have asbestos in if you want to wear it that's fine personally I wouldn't do it so the issues start with this mask where it has this weird sort of rubber inner math I can't really explain it's like when you have the edges of the mask here there's another bit of rubber that goes inside which you can see era when the eye piece is left on the left side it's sort of a really weird design now I guess it was to make a better face seal but what happens in reality is it just sort of gets in the way of your face and I have no idea what it was actually to do over the make a better face see all bits a really irritating thing my ever complaint with this mask is it's too squishy if you look at the rubber it's too cool Soviets of hood mask how it mask rubber which is not what you want in a mouse like this you want a more rigid face piece so what that means is the mask is too squishy and we'll keep doing that into your face when you move around wearing it ideally you wanted a mask like Sadie has ten or six anything like that where you've got kind of vulcanized rubber at the front you can still have it give a bit of gift but you want it to be a material that's not going to just compress in at the slightest movement so this is again on those sad masks where they could have made something really good it's got a lot of good features but ultimately I'd still rather have something like the HMS with a proper the design that works rather than an uncomfortable one this is very good at pulling out a hair by the way the rubber straps on this finger it's all quite diabolical so there you go that's all my military masks I own of the Soviet Union itself not the Warsaw Pact satellites takes as long as you ignore that first om fourteen years there's a standing Soviet masks are very interesting they're all built around that latex hood design for the most part the helmet mask design and I think often the Soviets made a mistake when they tried to make them asked to westernize and cool at the end they had a lot of bad features when they could have just kept the simple and robust designs the regardless there you go that is my Soviet mask collection I hope you've enjoyed the video you

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Length: 12min 46sec (766 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 29 2017