An unloading vest is an element of clothing designed to comfortably carry a large number of small items (military man, tourist, etc.) or (i) to reduce the load on the spine when lifting weights (loader, builder, etc.). The first has the form of a vest with a large number of different pockets, the second has the appearance of a corset and can be performed using the frame (frame elements).
Unloading vest of military equipment (tactical vest) - an element of equipment (equipment) of military personnel , mainly infantry shooters (and its varieties - airborne troops , marine corps ).
It is a vest with a large number of special pockets or mounts. Designed for comfortable carrying weapons, stores for it, grenades , flasks, medical packs, first-aid kits and the like and convenient extraction of them for use.
Content
History
One of the first unloading vests began to use the Italian airborne troops. Several versions of vests were developed for paratroopers, which were worn over the head and fastened on the sides. The vests for the paratroopers had four or seven horizontal shopping bags for the Beretta MAB 38 submachine gun sewn on the chest. Another variant of the vest was already made in 1942 for paratroopers-sappers who were part of the assault groups (instead of rectangular pouches for machine gun stores, square pockets were sewn on the chest of these vests to accommodate subversive charges, detonators and tools) [1] .
As early as 1942, the Italian Marines used another version of the vest - with horizontal pockets for 7 stores for a Beretta MAB 38 submachine gun on the chest and additional pockets on the back [2] .
In England, a vest was developed for the commando ( Battle Jerkin ).
In the USA, specially for landing in Normandy, they developed and accepted for supply an “assault vest” for rangers . It was made of durable cotton fabric and had eight capacious pockets. The fitted cut of this vest allowed running and crawling much more freely than with the "garlands" of many bags. On the back of the vest was a large pocket, equal in volume to the infantry pack.
After the Second World War, vests were used in the British CAC and some other special units. But they are not really widespread.
During the Vietnam War, unloading vests were widely used by partisans of the NFLJF and units of the Vietnam People’s Army, the most widely used type 58 tarpaulin vest developed in the PRC, which had pockets for three AK stores and 4 F-1 grenades (although there were vests in the NFLW detachments another design - for four or five submachine gun stores). In some cases, such vests could protect against cold weapons, accidental splinters and even bullets - at the site of one of the military clashes by US troops, a Vietnamese body was found in an unloading vest, in which two 5.56 guns equipped with steel cartridges equipped with Kalashnikov rifles were found mm machine-gun bullets [3] .
These vests were widely used in many local wars of the XX century [4] . In the early 1980s, they came to Afghanistan together with Chinese AKs to dushmans , where they were recognized by individual Soviet military personnel due to the inconvenience of wearing the RPM ( Load Bearing Equipment ) or the absence of one. Some people appreciated the Chinese unloading bibs, preferring them to Soviet equipment (RPS) and began to actively use both the captured Chi-Kom and self-sewn ones. It is not known whether the Chi-Com served as the prototype of the Soviet breastplate Belt-A. Perhaps, the expression was born then. "Ar Yeisk bra. "
In the late 1980s, the U.S. Army accepted the designed Load-Bearing Vest M-1988 vest, which replaced the RICE ALICE.
In 1987, prototypes of this type of equipment for the ground forces of the USSR were developed and manufactured [5] .
In the early 1990s, a universal transport vest 6Sh92 was developed for the Russian army, which was produced by several enterprises and private companies in several different versions (6Sh92-1, 6Sh92-2, etc.). In addition, in the 1990s, special units of the armed forces and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation began to use unloading vests of other systems [5] , including foreign ones, as well as non-standardized and limited-edition ones. In the mid-2000s, a modular vest was developedUMBTS , after completion of the tests approved for use in the troops [6] .
In 2017, it was announced the development of a new model of equipment for the special forces of Russia (which included an unloading vest) [7] .
Gallery
Dushmans cross the Afghan-Pakistani border, 1985, at the extreme right of Chi-com.
A special-purpose group after completing a combat mission, OKSVA , February 18, 1988, shows the unloading bibs “Belt-A”, colloquially “unloading” (“bra”)
US Marine in Afghanistan , July 2, 2009
An unloading vest with ribbons allows you to independently complete with pockets and bags.
Anatoly Wasserman
See also
- Personal protective equipment
- Ammunition
- Felin
Notes
- ↑ P. Crociani, PP Battistelli. Italian Army elite units & special forces 1940-43. London, Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2012. pages 27, 30-31
- ↑ P. Crociani, PP Battistelli. Italian Navy & Air Force elite units & special forces 1940-45. London, Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2013. pages 26-27
- ↑ Gordon L. Rottman, Brian Delf. North Vietnamese Army Soldier 1958-75. London, Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2009. pages 34-36
- ↑ Chest-unloading History (Retrieved February 4, 2012)
- ↑ 1 2 Evgeny Razkazov. Equipment "Otter". History of creation // Kalashnikov magazine, No. 5, 2002. p. 82-87
- ↑ Andrey Belyavsky, Denis Salakhov. UMBTS system // Kalashnikov magazine, No. 3, 2006. pp. 30-35
- ↑ Russian special forces will receive the form of the future // Izvestia, July 12, 2017
Further reading
- Major "Wind". Special forces are met by unloading (Russian) // Weapon: magazine. - 2007. - No. 11 . - S. 17-24 . - ISSN 1728-9203 .