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Configuration
| Specification | Modèle 1951 helmet | PMK gas mask |
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| Type | Combat helmet[source] | gas masks[source] |
| Place of origin | France[source] | — |
| In service | 1952–1990 (France)[source] | — |
| Used by | See Users[source] | Soviet Armed Forces , and later by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation[source] |
| Wars | First Indochina War Korean War Vietnam War Laotian Civil War Cambodian Civil War Algerian War Cameroon War Bizerte crisis Suez Crisis 1958 Lebanon crisis Portuguese Colonial War Angolan Civil War Rhodesian Bush War South African Border War Chadian Civil War (1965–1979) Chadian–Libyan War Toyota War Tuareg rebellion (1990–1995) Sand War Ifni War Western Sahara War Western Sahara conflict Mauritania–Senegal Border War Djiboutian Civil War 1967 Six-Day War 1967-1970 War of Attrition Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon 1973 Yom Kippur War Lebanese Civil War 1978 South Lebanon conflict 1982 Lebanon War South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) 2006 Lebanon War Republic of the Congo Civil War (1993–1994) Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) First Ivorian Civil War Second Ivorian Civil War Mali War Islamist insurgency in the Sahel Central African Bush War Central African Republic Civil War |
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| Designer | French Army Quartermaster Corps[source] | — |
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| Designed | 1951[source] | — |
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| Manufacturer | French Army Quartermaster Corps HR A.G. Paris E.P.C. Paris SAUF Paris Richard Haas & Cie J.Dunois & Fils Vincennes Cie Labbé Fr. St-Florent du Cher Établissements Luchaire Franck Aubervilliers Carpentier Cusset Ducellier Issoire Japy Voujaucourt L.U. Messei M.AM.OU Marseille Menesa Neunkirchen Thilbault Montreuil[source] | — |
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| Produced | 1951–1976[source] | — |
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| Mask component | — | MB-1-80 mask[source] |
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| Filter component | — | EO-1-15-01 filter[source] |
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| Protection | — | toxic gases or radioactive vapors or aerosols, as well as biological agents[source] |
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| Filter connection | — | 40 mm GOST threads[source] |
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| Drinking system | — | drinking tube[source] |
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| Material | — | rubber is exclusively black coloured[source] |
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| Design and production context | — | The PMK gas mask represents a family of gas masks used by the Soviet Armed Forces , and later by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation . The MB-1-80 mask and the EO-1-15-01 filter are used.[source] |
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| Origin reported by inventory | — | Soviet Union[source]Inventory Origin column; table 5, row 22, cell 4; revision 1377727163; retrieved 2026-09-30 Russia[source]Inventory Origin column; table 5, row 23, cell 4; revision 1377727163; retrieved 2026-09-30 |
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