Original Soviet Cold War Russian R-105 Backpack Field Radio French Gun Magazines The interior tag at the

The interior tag at the collar as well as the small cloth tag to the interior right front pocket list the jacket as a SIZE 38

with silver

and even still has some traces of the original zinc finish in places

Due to the haste to move heavy bombers to Europe

with one crack along the side that does not effect the stability at all

Original Soviet Cold War Russian R-105 Backpack Field Radio French Gun Magazines The interior tag at theOriginal Item: Only One Available. The most common of all the Russian radios to be found all over the world, is the R 105 family of backpack radios. The radio is rather primitive by anybody's standards, it is not easy to use, nor does it have any saving graces save one, "If you fire one up, it usually works". First introduced in the early 1950's, it was revamped in the 1960's to use more modern materials ( D models ), and again in the 1970's ( M