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US Navy Seabees jog during an exercise with M40s worn. The M40 was the result of a program in the 1980s to develop a successor to the M17-series protective masks which had been in service with the US armed forces since 1959. The M40 was to be a return to conventional protective mask design with an external side-mounted filter canister, rather ...
The US armed forces henceforth returned to 'traditional' designs of mask where filter canisters are mounted externally and thus can be changed if needed without the wearer having to remove the mask. The mask offers protection from chemical and biological warfare agents, but does not function properly in places where oxygen content is low. [1]
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 Sea Dragon 2025 is an experimental battledress being tested for the US Marine Corps as a replacement for the Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform; Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense. The M50 joint service general purpose mask is the standard gas mask. [8] [9]
A United States Navy sailor donning a MCU-2P protective mask during a chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) drill aboard the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77). At Ellsworth Air Force Base. The MCU-2/P is a protective mask used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy, originally designed for the US Army as the XM-30 mask. In ...
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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.
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