M56 soldiering on 20 years plus.....?

[DaveM]

Do my eyes deceive me?

pic from CNN today

[DaveM]

more from video

CNN tonight

[DaveM]

another one

looks like an M56 to me

[uscob]

Who, knows, but I know that the DDR had a lot of business with the DDR.
I was in Egypt in the mid 80's, and on our flight back I said to my Dad in the waiting room that the egyptian Helmets look like the pisspots of the DDR. An old man was sitting there after that like he had a broomstick in his backside and looked very angry to me. You must know that we had a cheap flight back to Schönefeld Airport in East Berlin. My dad told me to be quiet as there a lot of Stasis around.

[SanderMan]

Nico,

"piss pots of the DDR" just left me cracking up

[DaveM]

I would like one of these Egyptian M-56 camo covers.
BTW I think the EA uses a variety of helmets....

[КОП'ak]

Hello, gentlemen!
It is not the only example - look:

Also cover on several..

[polihelmet]

Hi, indeed Egyp use a variety of helmets included the DDR M56, but I think they got them after the wall came down, I have a pic of egyptian police with M56s
As far as I know they also use, polish M50 and M67s ( the most common models ) M56 DDR, and US PASGT kevlar, this last in few numbers and to elite units.
Cheers
POLI
Ps: great cover BTW!

[polihelmet]

in the pic above , with the soldiers in woodland camo, they are nor egyptian, they are turkish soldiers, they got a lot of M56s in the 90s as a presente from unified germany, they inmediatly used then in ops against kurds.

[Gene]

Hello, gentlemen!
It is not the only example - look:

Also cover on several..

Is the guy opposite the one in the beret wearing his helmet backwards?

[pietertje25]

yes, saw it too. he tries to be the funny guy of the family

[Marc Sherriff]

Of course not, his is correct, everyone eles is wrong, who's the boss round here.

[SanderMan]

So far this whole thread has been cracking me up

[Thälmannpionier]

Hello, gentlemen!
It is not the only example - look:

Also cover on several..

great photo

[Jan Klaassen]

Lol! We should give him a medal for that