Cold War Gas Mask Fashion

It is a lightweight mask weighing 1 09 kg.

Cold war gas mask fashion. This is likely due to the soviet union s. Wear it once get scarred for life. Browse a wide selection of cold war gas mask and face coverings available in various fabrics and configurations made by a community of small business owners. They have been tested in poland.

Cold war era soviet russian military gas mask gp 5 genuine surplus respiratory protection new. The gp 5 gas mask is a soviet made single filter gas mask. The gas masks respirators used by some of the major nato powers during the cold war america is excluded as they went through many different masks and it is very hard to find us masks in the uk. At the height of the cold war chemical and biological warfare was also considered a threat though not one as publicized as the threat of nuclear warfare.

Production ended in 1990. The most popular gas mask model in the world the soviet russian gas mask gp 5. It can operate in all weather and withstand temperatures from 40 degrees to 114 c. Those of you who remember the hottest days of the cold war cuban missile crisis brezhnev s fight with imperialism etc will know more about gas masks than modern generation.

It was issued to the soviet population starting in 1962. They were originally made to protect the wearer from radioactive fallout during the cold war and were distributed to most fallout shelters. Mask is absolutely new great condition without any tags discoloration or marks.