Tuesday 22 May 2012

Finnish M61 Respirators

One of the most common masks on the surplus market, the M61 came in 3 variants. The first being near identical to the American M9.All of the masks were manufactured by Nokia the mobile phone manufacturer.

The second having a slightly modified outlet valve, that could be removed or twisted.
The third featured a plastic voice box and outlet valve and was generally issued to higher ranking soldiers in the Finnish military, the mask was replaced in the late 90s by the M95 respirator.

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