Would This Survival Kit Keep You Alive? I review the Vintage SRU-16/P 

I did a quick bit of reasearch on this kit. It was ment as a secondary kit. A pilot or crewmember would have a full kit either in their seat, or in their flight vest. So I imagine every cost shortcut was taken.

And the snare wire easily locks with a properly formed loop. All military survival manuals show how to do it. The easiest way is with a pencil size stick and wrap the wire around it twice, forming TWO loops then twist the stick doubling the wire around itself. break the stick and remove it. As others have said, it is meant to be used as a last ditch kit by a parachutist, w/chute and cord. That individual also would have had substantial survival training. Lastly, a sock was to be removed to support and protect the water fuled condom.

The parachute survival kit is, of course, a last ditch kit in the event all other survival gear was lost, ie., survival vest, under ejection seat pan kit. We should all carry on our person a last ditch kit, wether wilderness or urban. My suggestion? Use this kit as a template and build your own kit using high end gear….not Chinese junk!! As stated in other comments, I would add a few things, like a ss cup, etc. excellent video and review of the kit! Thanks!

You have to keep in mind that the kit is a last ditch oh crap thing small enough to fit on a chute harness. Also, any military personnel that would be in possession of such a kit should have already been trained in survival, so a minimum instruction sheet would have probably been used to start a fire with anyway. Most of all, whoever was in charge of purchasing/putting together such a kit was most likely a penny pinching bureaucrat that didn't exactly have the soldier's needs first and foremost in mind.

You can guess what I'm going to say. I'd have gone with a SAK for the knife. Mylar blanket, water purification you caught, better compass (I'll drop you a link) ferro rod, I'd put it all in a metal cup and lastly a flashlight of some kind. Ideally something with a solar panel on one side and/or a wind up handle. So cutting tool, container, combustion, cover and cordage (from parachute) compass, cloth sail needle and candling device so what's missing? Cotton bandana and cargo tape so taking that I'd have put the whole kit in a cup you can easily fit all 10 Cs. It would be slightly bigger but if the cup was 4x5inches and 2 deep with fold out handles it would be fine

A much better kit in a slightly larger package: 1. Mylar blanket 2. Folding knife with saw 3. Snare Wire 4. MRE style gusseted bottle bag with purification tablets. 5. Small ferro rod and tinder tabs + Bic lighter 6. SUUNTO Clipper compass 7. Small roll of duct tape 8. Sewing/fishing kit 9. 50’ #12 bank line 10. Cotton bandana or large linen bandages 11. Waterproof keychain flashlight.

I love these videos. I like learning about survival kits.

What did they do for the new kit? My guess is remove everything sharp or pointed!😊

Seen a number of videos on this and always thought it was rather weak for a survival kit. The Chinese knife for American military is inexcusable, the compass is likely Chinese as well. The US Military logic, "Why give them an expensive kit? We may never get it back." The other military kit is the two part kit you tear into two and put each part into the pants cargo pocket.

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Love the videos and you have taught me a lot about knives and other things and have helped me so much i'm 13 and have been using knives for 4-4.5 years now and well when i was younger i didn't learn to much but i understnad a lot more abkut knives and yoy have helps so thanks 😊

Love the video hope you had a good day

Supplementary kits... tape one to your sock, one in pants pocket, one in smock etc. Stuff inside wasn't waterproofed as the main pack was so well sealed I reckon so prod costs went down.

Awesome review 👏

I think that if I were dropped in the middle of nowhere with only this kit, i'm 100% done for.

1:39 often when I see a decent hank of wire & aluminum foil I think “green sapling bush pot” For this reason I typically use the thick “pro barbecue” gauge foil and try to include at least 18-24 inches of it. PS: I read a book a few months ago about a B-24 crewman whose aircraft essentially disintegrated over Alaska on a training mission. He bailed out but didn’t have a parachute kit on his rig. I believe this was 1944 or ‘45. Several times in the book he reiterates “had I not had matches & my pocket knife in my pockets I would not have lived.” He also laments leaving his mittens in the aircraft. Something we too often forget with regard to the futzy fiddley fire stater gimmicks: with icy fingers we may as well be playing guitar with disconnected hot dogs.

Thank you.

That shirt cracked me up when I bought it " lets eat trash and get hit by a car" 🤣

Imagine that, Chinesium in a us military kit.

A secondary eye in the loop acts as a lock

The reason for no cordage is because of the parachute cord. The kit is a last ditch kit. You could survive with that kit due to sere training. The condom was to be used with your sock as a water carrier.

5:20 - A good way to prevent sickness and pregnancy at war.. 😂😂😂

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you put one of your socks outside the condom to give it strength and stability

The condom could be used to waterproof stuff too

How ironic that the badge is a plauge doctor

It was a non ripe away kit too stay with the pilot when lost it all .

Both my my kits came with colonial 3 blade knives.. oh man were they dull! Butter knife dull! Insulting even.. couldn’t cut anything!

They state on the package that they are NOT WATERPROOF

Thats my kind of condom! I had a couple of those GI Joes! I think Snake Eyes was married to my sisters barbie.

Where do you buy these

I have a question, why don't your GI Joes have shoes?

I really dislike that survival kits come with fishing gear and snare wire. The goal of any survival situation is going to be to either get out of a situation or stay put and wait for rescue. In either case you’re not going to have any use for snares and fishing. Hunting/fishing gear is really only useful in a bug out situation, not emergency survival.

Great review. Kit is disgraceful and an example of lazy bureaucrats not doing their jobs. Who was fired? No one. -I’m a USMC 30 year veteran. We are served by idiots.

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The real question what what did the government pay for a communist country’s knife? Anyone wanna bet money was set aside for a good knife then a general’s family member got a contract to fill the kits. Instead of a good American made knife they give us China. Really everyone always said always remember your equipment was made by the lowest bidder. This is even worse. Really shows how they care about soldiers. An things are getting worse for veterans. These kits are like foreshadowing