【海外の反応】「軍用規格」って実はガチで優秀だった！海外兵士が本気で褒める軍用装備10選

The Gore-tex raingear we were issued in the Air Force was amazing. I don't need it much anymore, but I still have 2-3 sets floating around in storage somewhere. I stood in heavy, driving rain for over 30 minutes marshaling aircraft and when I went inside, all my clothes underneath were still dry. Retains heat like crazy, too. If the day wasn't bitter cold I'd end up sweating after just a few minutes of moving around.

Odds are you can probably find a set if you scour enough Surplus stores. Especially the older, retired ABU pattern.

Food preservation. MREs are wild.

depends what branch but some of the cold weather gear is actually pretty solid, especially the layers system they use now. my dad was army and swears by those fleece jackets even years later – still wears his around house all the time and it holds up way better than civilian stuff i've bought

Not a veteran, but a vet taught me about this.

Canvas tents. So much better than even the best of the cheap crap polyester ones. Rain proof, snow proof. Insulates way better against heat and cold if set up properly. Most of then have ports for stoves for cooking/heating

The only real problems are that they're expensive, usually only come in 3+ person sizes, though i've seen smaller. And maintaining the canvas can be a pain in the ass sometimes.

Former UK coastguard, although we consider ourselfs more as first responders than military, particularly coastal ops.

A lot of what we where issued left a ton to be desired. The drysuits and ancillarys where top notch. The layering system was designed in such a way you could wear them during a 6 hour exercise at 0C, or at 20C without much discomfort.

Polypropylene/cold weather/artic gear.

Anything Goretex.

3 piece sleeping bag. If you stripped down to your skivs and zipped it up, and put a pad on the ground, you'd stay toasty in freezing temps. Only downside was it's small as hell, hard to get dressed inside it without opening.

I still have 2 Goretex jackets and liners that are over 20 years old.

ODG duffel bags.

Metal AR mags- beat to shit, lived through every war theater on the planet and kept on truckin.

Lots of stuff.

Australian Army – Cups Canteen Stainless – A kidney shaped cup that fits on the bottom of the standard 1L water canteen. Couldn't tell you how many drinks and meals I had out of one of those in the 40 years since mine was issued.

Not a veteran but by all accounts, the WW2 Willys Jeep really transformed the idea of a military vehicle to the world.

At a time when civilian cars regularly overheated on the shallowest hill on a perfectly smooth asphalt road, jeeps could crawl along on a rock path climbing thousands of feet at a time and never overheat. Never.

It could jump 10 feet in the air and land on its wheels without even bending the frame, let alone breaking a spring. It could go 65 mph indefinitely on off road tires, fully loaded, as long as there was fuel in the tank. The engine could endure really long times/lots of miles between oil changes (useful on a battlefield when you can’t really schedule your maintenance) without sludging.

They were doing this in the 1940s. It took many civilian automakers until the 1990s to make something that reliable. Today , you can see some barely-restored authentic military jeeps still tackling the Moab trail 80+ years later.

Never in the military but associated through my job. Flyswatters. Everybody has cheap wire flyswatters that bend easily. MILSPEC flyswatters use a heavier gauge wire and are more like weapons.

Canadian balaclava system. 

If you need all the layers, it's worse than -40. I use just the base layer.