The M2000 is the standard military issue gas mask in Germany's army, where it replaced the M65 gas mask series.
Overview[]
Due to common misconceptions, most assume that the M2000 was made by the German company, Dräger. However, Dräger paid Mine Safety Appliances (MSA) almost 9.3 million dollars to design and create over 50,000 M2000 masks. Dräger is now currently taking MSA's footsteps, and is now producing more M2000 masks.
The M2000 is made out of flexible green butyl rubber, making it both soft and comfortable on the face. It features a 6-point fabric head harness with a head pad. The temple and forehead straps can be locked into place, so the user can pre-adjust the mask before donning, leaving only the bottom two straps left to adjust. It features two teardrop-shaped eye lenses that feature special grooves for the speciality outserts.
The mask comes in three sizes; 1, 2, and 3 which correspond to small, medium and large, respectively.
The voicemitter/exhale valve cover is made of a thick plastic material. The Voicemitter is seen above the filter, and the exhale valve is seen on the bottom of the facepiece.
The inside of the mask features a very common aspect of most masks today; an inner peripheral seal and an oralnasal cup. The oralnasal cup inside of the M2000 is a clear/white-colored rubber.
Kit[]
The M2000 kits came with an large tote-like bag as a flecktarn camouflage pattern, filters, decontamination/first aid kit, drinking stem, and two pairs of outserts that being neutral tint and green laser.
M2000 kit
Carrying bag[]
The haversack is a large tote-like bag, with a flecktarn camouflage pattern on the outside. The haversack features a rubber strap and peg to close and open the bag. The haversack also features a detachable shoulder strap. The inside material is made out of waterproof-like textile and is very spacious, which allows for fitting the mask and all of its accessories.
Outserts[]
The laser outserts are usually harder to receive, as they are not always standard with every kit. The outserts come in a small green case, which was made to prevent scratching and damage. Rather than a rubber ring around the outsert to place over the eye lenses, the outserts feature special grooves that allow the outserts to click and lock onto the eye lenses itself. Removal is just as easy as installing them. The contents include chemical burn ointment, chemical paper, earplugs, gauze pads, and a cleaning cloth. All these contents are contained inside of a foldable plastic pouch.
Drinking Tube[]
The drinking stem is located alongside the voicemitter. The drinking tube is not attached to the mask, but rather it is inserted inside of the drinking stem. The drinking stem can be moved up and down, allowing the drinking straw inside of the mask to move closer to your mouth. The downfall of this drinking straw is that it is too long, and oftentimes, the drinking straw is right on the user’s nostrils.
Filters[]
The mask takes both standard 40mm filters and the F2000 speciality filters, produced by Dräger. The F2000 filters don’t feature any threading, rather they are inserted into the input with a locking mechanism. Along with the locking feature, the F2000 also has the ability to “swivel” left and right allowing it to adapt to left or right-handed shooters. This eliminated the use of interchangeable filter ports and secondary voicemitters.
Decontaminatin/First aid kit[]
(Work In Progress)
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