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A World War I British P Helmet, c. 1915 Zelinsky–Kummant protivogaz, designed in 1915, was one of the first modern-type full-head protection gas masks with a detachable filter and eyelet glasses, shown here worn by U.S. Army soldier (USAWC photo) Indian muleteers and mule wearing gas masks, France, February 21, 1940 A Polish SzM-41M KF gas mask, used from the 1950s through to the 1980s
Elastomeric masks must be individually fit-tested and inspected for full efficacy. [2] They may be somewhat easier to fit than filtering facepiece respirators. Older mask designs were designed only to fit young adult men of average weight and a narrow range of ethnicities; newer ones use updated anthropometry and fit more people. [5]
The FM12 also has an inner mask to prevent fogging of the lenses. The 'ridge' present around the edge of the S10 is absent from the FM12. The main noticeable difference between the FM12 and the S10 is the ability of some FM12's to mount two filters to the mask simultaneously, as was done by the SBS in the Gulf War. When only one filter is ...
The M17 Protective Mask is a series of gas masks that were designed and produced in 1959 (as a replacement of the M-9 gas mask) to provide protection from all types of known chemical and biological agents present.
The S10 CBRN Respirator is a military gas mask that was formerly used within all branches of the British Armed Forces.Following the mask's replacement by the General Service Respirator in 2011, the S10 is now widely available to the public on the army surplus market.
The GP-4u gas mask in the Yekaterinburg school. The GP-4u (Russian: Гражда́нский Противога́з-4у, Grazhdanskii Protivogaz-4u) gas mask was one of the most widely produced gas masks in the USSR. The civilian GP-4u gas mask consists of the facepiece, the hose and a cylinder-shaped filter, which is screwed onto the end of ...
The GP-5 gas mask kit (Russian: Гражда́нский Противога́з-5, romanized: Grazhdanskiy Protivogaz-5) is a Soviet-made gas mask kit, which contains a single-filter ShM-62 or Shm-62U gas mask. It was issued to the Soviet population starting in 1962 during the Cold War.
The M50 series mask entered service in December 2006. [3] [4] In July 2014, Avon Protection received a contract to supply 135,000 M50s for $33 million. [5]In March 2016, it was announced that 166,623 M50s were purchased by the Department of Defense (DOD) under a $42 million contract.