British Army Olive Green PLCE Infantry Long Bergen

 PLCE OG

Rucksack w/Frame Long Back 

1989

Rucksack (Infantry) w/Frame
Long Back
NSN : 8465-99-130-9349

Year : 1989

British Army Issue Olive Green PLCE 
Infantry Bergen / Rucksack 

German engineers at the end of the 19th century managed to create a technology for the production of cotton wool in industrial volumes. Initially, such material was used only in medicine, but later cotton wool began to be widely used in clothing factories. The workers used cotton wool as insulation in the production of outerwear. Russian soldiers fully appreciated wadded jackets for the first time during the conflict in Manchuria in 1904. 10 years later, immediately after the outbreak of the First World War, the production of quilted jackets increased significantly, but as a full-fledged uniform of the tsarist army (wadded jacket and trousers), quilted jackets became only in 1915.

SOVIET ERA OF VATNIKS

After the overthrow of the tsar and the coming to power of the Bolsheviks, the production of quilted jackets dropped somewhat, and only a few years before the start of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet leadership began to dress the military and civilians in this type of clothing. The red army especially liked the new uniforms. Wadded jackets and trousers did not restrict movement at all, so it was convenient to go into a bayonet attack and move on skis in them.

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