Soviet PMG-2/GP-5m Gas Mask review and test

right today we are going to be looking at the PM g2 also known as the GP 5m and I believe also the GP six I've had a few people request these but I've never had them up until now you know you can get them fairly cheaply so this mask is sort of a combination hybrid mask where the Russians wanted to adopt or adapt masks they already had to make them more useful so if you look at one of these masks what's the immediate thing you think of the gp5 it is essentially a gp5 with earholes molded onto the rubber and a voice diaphragm so the mask is basically a hybrid of earlier Soviet masks that they wanted to adapt to make better so you get the situation where the gp5 is being issued to the civilian population and fallout shelters are single defense masks and it's a very very practical and cost-effective mask it does its job and it's cheap to make the military at this point aren't really using the GP five I think some branch of the Soviet Army was certainly issued GP thighs and they had nothing else to give them the it wasn't intended as a military mask you have a complicated mass that boils down to being called the m41 which the East Germans and the Polish is certainly using I believe the Russians are as well but I've never really heard what the full name of the Russian one is which is a mask like this with a bigger bit down here that connects to a hose and a canister so what the Russians wanted was a mask to replace that and what they ended up getting is a mask called the PMG which I've talked about before but I'll show you now so what we have here is a PMG which is the metrocop mask from half-life 2 you'll notice that the molding on the rubber means it's actually got a facial structure unlike the sort of gp5 type masks which means it would have been more expensive to produce you've got your exhale valve here you've actually got a voice diaphragm here and you've got a filter intake here however the problem with the entire mass being made of rubber is despite you've got the better lenses on these the sort of type the Shems house because the filter intakes sort of here and the masks made of rubber and you've got basically a big gp5 canister that goes on the side it weighs the mass down to the sidelines this as well as it costing more to produce so the Russians obviously wanted a fix to that so this is what they've come up with so in a sense the Russians can have combined the gp5 on the right the PMG on the left to make the PMG to all the gp5 em with all the gp6 depending what you want to call it so you can see that's a gp5 and here is the GP 5m or PM g2 or g b6 which everyone you call it I think it's official name is p.m. g2 if it was issued to soldiers if it was issued so there's a civil defense thing they call it the GP 5mm or GP 6 because I can't find any evidence of another mass being called GP 6 I'm assuming this is the GP 6 before they have the much more redesigned GP 7 later on so I'm screwed is tilter from this so you can see better but what you essentially have with this mask is a GP 5 where the ear part is on the GP 5 you've actually not got any rubber at all it's molded to be like that and then you've got the same intake exhale valve however on the front they've lifted the same voice diaphragm from the hms or the MM one sort of tank mask so again they're using stuff they've already got they're not making a special voice diaphragm for the mask they're simply using their older voice diaphragms with this mask so logistically they don't have to produce more stuff they can just fit them together and make a much cheaper tissue mask so the idea is of a PM te 2 that you've got a very cheaper to produce mask which is essentially a GP 5 with a voice diaphragm on it the filter can sit underneath and you've got a light weight gas mask because I think I sought PMG means in Russian when it's translated is basically light weight infantry gas mask it does all the jobs it needs to do so we're going to test it so I'll first show you the Mon I've got both the black and the white one the grey one basically what happened was I was looking on ebay for them most sellers on eBay were charging about 15 to 20 pounds for them with all the kit and then I found a seller in Lithuania for about 17 pounds that's including the postage he was doing a pair of black embrace for about 17 pounds that came to everything but the bags so it came to filters which I'm not obviously going to use and two sets of the D misting sort of antifouling lenses to put on the inside so there we go I am now going to show you what both of these masks look like on then we're going to put the Polish ABEC filter online test one of the masks all right so let's have a look at these masks so I'll do the grey one first so what we have is basically like a gp5 that you can see it's got the voice diaphragm on that seems to work fairly well actually I ears come through these holes here in the side of the mask and you've got the intake exhale there as you see it's pressurized it works these ones are a little bit grubby where I've got for them none from like the cellar they ballsy not been in great condition warehouse but they still work I've cleaned them up a bit and I'm sure I could clean up a bit more if I wanted to make them look a bit better but yeah overall this is quite a clever mask if the Russians being cheap and effective they've got the gp5 they said we've got this master PMG can we just adapt the gp5 in production to be a military mask aside you'll notice the bottom of this is the same as the gp5 it's actually not more expensive to produce more metallic so one less production one so like most of Soviet masks it was made in both black and gray white rather take that one off now an interesting thing is these latex that they use actually smell slightly different inside on the black model I don't know why that is I guess I think it's not quite the same rubber however both masks are exactly the same in terms of effectiveness they both work you know exactly as well the voice diaphragm seems to work well now one thing that people complain about with these they say the ears are exposed that means you're going to get you know guessing your ears when you were attacked by gas now actually a bit of a fallacy because the gp5 does cover the ears and so do many of the other soviet masks however if you're wearing this with a full NBC hood that your ears are going to be covered anyway if you look at most Western NATO style gas masks your ears are uncovered so you can hear so that's not a fault of the mask it's just simply most Russian masks cover your ears or the hood this has the model hood so your ears actually stick out the side so that's not a problem the mask at all if you're wearing it with 4nbc gear your ears are covered regardless if you've got the mask on just to protect you from sore or lessor chemical agents that's actually quite good to have your ears out so you can hear what's going on far better so I'll test one of these masks now using the usual gas test but what I have to show you first is this thing what we have here is a Polish mask where they've used the same law to can put the voice diaphragm on it I will give this mask it's all separate video but you can see you whenever Nations in the Warsaw Pact they basically have the same idea so just to show you what I was saying about the difference with production costs these ones the PMG 2 actually uses a gp5 type snout which is a lot smaller hopefully that's visible on the camera compared to this one this is a lot bulkier so the Polish one isn't actually a PNG 2 as a different voice diaphragm and it has the m41 sort of on 40 use file exhale valve intake valve however the TMG twos have the gp5 ones but for the video today we're going to be testing the PMT to just when you do a load to date all right here we go I've got my polish apex controller so it's a ghost thread bit fits these old Warsaw Pact masks as you can see it pressurizes so some the test I'm going to use the air freshener plus the Lark and then I'm going to time it a couple of minutes and I'm probably go over that we'll see if it works so basically as I was saying the PM g2 was quite a clever design it's very sort of Russian in its attempt at being a how do we do stuff as cheaply as possible but make it effective so how it works is as explained in the video you get the GP five you can have a GP five type Mars because it's what the same orbit you lured the rover so it's got a gap there and gap for years you can hear better because you've got no rather covering your ears and then you put the voice diaphragm on it here and you use the same voice diaphragm module if you produce the air of a mask so there's no extra cost you just make more of them on your production runs other than that it's a GP five basically and it being called the GP for them the GP six and when issued to soldiers the PMD two because it replaced the PMD one but still very good mask I believe in many Eastern European nations I don't know about Russia maybe for reservists this is still a like finishing mask wherever all the production runs of these are still quite new or they're just using old stock where the seals still work I don't know obviously you've heard a lot and filter on it and it works well as you can see here I can't smell any gas and that's already been one minute but yeah the PM g2 is quite an interesting mask I think the PMT one looks cooler in a lot of ways but the PM g2 is kind of a logistics exercise of cost-cutting on we've got a very cheap masking that's producing can we use that mask model to essentially make a mask for the army as well as a submit civil mask a civilian mask and this is what this mask is I've had no faults with it I haven't got a brilliant field of view because it is after all the gp5 kind of hood mask so it's good enough you can use a rifle iron sights with it but scopes don't really work of these because you need forward facing front lenses for a scope like that like they are on the MM one or the flat ones for the IRAs HMS which is actually the best design of any mask I still use looking for escapes and binoculars for the Polish a that filter it works fine so yeah to fill it up the PM GP with a fairly effective mask or a very effective mask maybe this is the cheapest most produced military working mask over the scene of a foolish diaphragm I've said the whole process is galih gp5 make the mold play different to your ears can stick through and it can take the voice diaphragm it's going to take the same voice diaphragm we use an awl or other than the tree mask like the MM one or hms because it would cost more money to use a different one just stick it on there and you're good you've got your working mask so I think that's easily been two minutes now let me break the seal to see if I stopped coughing so here people break and see only doing that kept so yes this mouth works so if you want to the working mouth filling you have the gp5 but you want something of a voice diaphragm you could just simply get a PM g to ice and modern a back filters but a lot of Russian or polish ones are fine put them on the mask and you have a working mask that would protect you for like 15 to 20 pounds a little two of them must put a pretty good deal isn't it so yeah it's old Soviet surplus stuff still works um wondering can we see the date on the rubber at all I'll cut away to it and I'll show you all the bays on your mark the black PMG 2 is from 1980 and the grey-white PMG 2 is from 1981 but they have different serial production type numbers on so imagine they're from a different factory but there you go the PMG - despite being a cheap surplus mask still works very well and it's on those crazy cheap Soviet innovations that still works well today you

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Length: 13min 22sec (802 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 18 2017