Probably it's the same like in the bottles, but costs only a quarter of the price. It would be very interesting, which mixture they recommend. There they wrote ' in the pharmacie or drugstore you buy x, y and z, and mix it with xx parts of water.' This was acheived by the development of one simple, but very versatile piece of gear. How is the old traditional mixture which we found in the boy scout books hundred years ago. The Soviet Army knew this and from its early days it sought to provide both to its troops. Which product, ready to use they recommend, butĢ. That's why I recommend to use it how it is, because I think, the impregnation is still in it.īecause you have an outstanding connection to Tencate, please ask themġ. The impregnation is liquid in the beginning, but the cotton fabric sucks it up and - different to your sofa - it is invisible. In the morning you discover that there is a lovely red spot on it.Īnd impregnation of cotton tents works more or less like that! It is more like with your nice new white sofa, if you invite a few people and offer them red wine. Everybody knows it from a cheap rain jacket.īut with cotton fabric impregnation it works different! Romanian ones are often better storaged than russian ones. Romanian one has also two hand holes instead of one like russian one has. Also romanian one has plastic buttons and russian one haa wooden. During the process it's liquid, in the end it is a film, a kind of foil that is glued on it. I have heard that romanian one is little bit thiccer canvas. If you have a polyester fabric, they glue PU on it to waterproof it. If it was used as a canopy, then even from one cape soldiers were able to make a shelter for four people.I'm not sure, because I am German, but I think 'coating' is the wrong word. It was possible to build a shelter for one person from one plash-palatka and from several to assemble a tent that could accommodate up to twelve people. Therefore, the Red Army soldiers and officers immediately fell in love with this new item in their equipment and treated it quite reverently. Red army soldiers used them even as a comfortable hammock. Weapons were cleaned on raincoats, Plash-palatkas were used as bedding during firing practice or lunch, soldiers slept on them, weapons were cleaned on them as well. With the help of raincoats, the Red Army soldiers could operate in any geographical and climatic conditions - in the mountains, steppes, on a snowy plain. The plash-palatka set developed in 1938 included: a cape (180 × 180cm), two 65cm long rods, two pegs, a lacing rope.

It can also serve as a simple blanket or bedding on a wet or dry floor, or a pillow. Raincoat-tent can serve as a raincoat, canopy, tent, or even an awning, sheltering from the wind or rain. Raincoat tent is a square cloth with a hood and slotted holes for arms and hands. The slit on the right side allowed for the hand to be reached out. USSR Raincoat Tent Khaki (Plash Palatka) 9 reviews. One of the ends could be fastened with a rope to form a hood.

Plash-palatka (literally 'cape-tent') was a shelter-half used as both a part of a larger tent cover or an individual weatherproof cape made of strong, impregnated linen fabric and button up with wooden stakes. The rifle units of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army

Russian plash palatka