Soviet Webbing/LBE

[Mahatatain]

Originally Posted by HorseSoldier

'Early' model was a triple pouch, 'later' was the quad. Not sure when the switch occurred, but the quad pouches were copied by everyone else in the WP.

Looking at the picture, I think those are both Russian quad pouches. Soviet Army Stuff (http://www.sovietarmystuff.com/) has pretty good exemplars of a lot of Afghanistan (and Twilight)-era Soviet webbing and other odds and ends on their website, along with both older and newer items.

Thanks for the info and the link.

Very interesting.

[Abbott Shaull]

Very interesting indeed. So a Pack troop with two of these bags on their web gear would have 9 mags. One of the option that some NATO characters were extra water bottle and an extra ammo pouch, which now the ammo pouch would make sense. Then again pin down a small unit long enough they will eventually run out of ammo...

[HorseSoldier]

For T2K it's also probably noteworthy that you can't really fit AK mags into pouches designed for M16/etc mags, but can do the opposite, though perhaps with something (field dressing, spare socks' whatever) stuck in the bottom to make them more accessible. I also don't think anyone in NATO issued a pistol belt that would mount Pact pouches but in a pinch WP belts could take NATO stuff. (Though their belts were lighter/ flimsier and wouldn't take a heavy amount of gear as well.)

[jester]

Originally Posted by HorseSoldier

For T2K it's also probably noteworthy that you can't really fit AK mags into pouches designed for M16/etc mags, but can do the opposite, though perhaps with something (field dressing, spare socks' whatever) stuck in the bottom to make them more accessible. I also don't think anyone in NATO issued a pistol belt that would mount Pact pouches but in a pinch WP belts could take NATO stuff. (Though their belts were lighter/ flimsier and wouldn't take a heavy amount of gear as well.)

Simply corrected via 550 cord and duct tape

[weswood]

Originally Posted by jester

Simply corrected via 550 cord and duct tape

I love duct tape. I watched a Mythbuster episode where they built a sailboat out if it. My goal in life is now a duct tape canoe.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by weswood

I love duct tape. I watched a Mythbuster episode where they built a sailboat out if it. My goal in life is now a duct tape canoe.

I remember when I was a teenager in CAP -- they called it "hundred-mile-an-hour tape."

[weswood]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

I remember when I was a teenager in CAP -- they called it "hundred-mile-an-hour tape."

I've also heard it called that