its just GP-5 is the bottom of the barrel. also having to use such a mask in a genuine emergency can cause unexpected claustrophobia and panicking in an already terrifying environment.Īlso, you dont need the most modern "tacticool" gas masks, or even a drinking tube. have you ever had to wear a gas mask, with a filter while running in a gas cloud for an hour? i sure as hell havent, but i get dehydrated quickly just using a gas mask while stationary for 20 mins because it dries the fuck out of your mouth (filters dont allow moisture through, duh). speaking on visibility they have a very low field of view, you cant see potential threats approaching, drinking tubes are pretty nice to have tbh. The lenses fog causing you to loose visibility in a potentially deadly situation. So, what are your thoughts about these options? Or maybe you've found some decent source of 40mm GOST compatible filters yourself? I've also found a Finnish seller but again I'm unsure if they have GOST threaded ones in the shop, or just mention that they are also made in 40mm GOST. The shop has also other class filters with GOST thread, but this one seems to be the best one. The first one I've found is quite expensive and I'm not even sure if they have GOST-compatible ones in their shop, even if they mention it on-site.Īfter refining my searching parameters I've managed to find some really decent looking ones (A2B2E2K2HgNOP3D) in Czech shop that seems to send them abroad. They all seem to be vacuum sealed (not only the packaging, but the filters themselves) and have an impressive (suspicious?) 20-year shell life! I've found some, and they all seem to be coming from a single or multiple Czech producers under different brand names. Modern, western-made 40mm GOST compatible filters.It's not bad and readily available, but not really feasible without a gasmask satchel. Another known alternative is a chinese normalised thread hose that allows the use of 40mm NATO filters.Viable alternative but with uncertain availability. Sadly, they are not commercially available for individual clients from the producer even in Poland. But the high demand for them makes non-expired ones quite expensive and rare. Polish FP-5, normalised thread filters are a known alternative.Especially these microscopic unscrewable ones. Modern russian 40mm GOST filters - that would be a great alternative if they were readily available in the western hemisphere, but I wasnt able to find any shops shipping them here.All Warsaw Pact ones are both expired and asbestos positive.There's just the little, well known and non-trivial issue of getting decent, non-expired filters. Yes, they are old and uncomfortable, but still fully functional, what means, that I will be able to put them on all of my family heads, get into the car and GTFO if there's railroad disaster including chlorine cistern somewhere nearby.īut. But that doesn't change the fact, that I can buy literally a crate of a few dozen surplus, never used, fully functional 40mm GOST compatible gas masks for the cost of just one decent 40mm NATO compatible one. Yes, I know, GP-5 BAAAAD because reasons.
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