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Hello, and welcome back to Viking Airsoft! This time around i'm going to tell you and show you the pattern “Lifchik” chest rigs of the USSR. So, lets not waste any time and get to it! First introduced in 1985 and produced until 1987 in it's original form but other patterns and sub-variants do exist and continue to be made, the “Lifchik” Or Bra in English. Was a direct descendant of the popular and mass produced Type-56 Chest Rig of the P.R.C. (People's Republic of China) and fielded in massive numbers of the 40 th Army in Afghanistan, and later by the Soviet/Russian Federal Armed Forces in Tajikistan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Yugoslavia and the Republics of Ossetia, Abkazia and Chechnya. (Not mine. Credit goes to the Soviet/Russian MOD and Itar Tass Newspaper.) The layout of the “Lifchik” Rig is as followed: Three main cells for two 5.45x39 magazines in each cell.                         ...

I don't claim to be an expert in everything I cover in these and any other following articles, but I can give you, the reader the best background and history of the gear, uniforms and equipment I cover in this and other following articles. And hopefully videos. Infamous pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, carried several pistols about his chest. Various depictions show them high, some show them lower, but the idea remained the same. Carrying them on the torso kept them accessible in an emergency. During the World Wars, it was common to store extra ordnance like grenades, spare clips, and med kits in bandoliers stretched across the chest. The American’s had a grenade vest that looks very similar to modern chest rigs during WWI. The Germans did it as well with rifle clips and types of bandoliers for the FG-42. The British and Canadians developed the so-called battle jerkin (insert joke) that looks like an early version of the Israeli Ephod developed in the 1960s...