DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS THIS?

[ysi_maniac]

I mean the encyrcled back pack.

The encyrcled box, near the foot of the soldier, looks like an ammo box but, as this soldier does not wear machine gun, I think it has something to do with mentiones back pack.

Thanks in advance.

[perttime]

First thought: the things on the back pack could be spare barrels for the machine gun.

Do you have a nationality and time period? 1950s?

[scooter]

B10+B11 is certainly an ammo can.  The backpack is probably, like perttime said, spare barrels with tripod in the box.  Which would make the figure an assistant machine gunner.

[Old Wombat]

1/35 Italian Paratroopers Anzio 1944 (DML)

Pretty sure that's the #2 in the machine gun team, & that's a big box of ammo & spare barrels for the 6.5mm Breda M30 LMG on his back.


Image courtesy of alternatehistory.com**

wikipedia: Breda 30

Forgotten Weapons: Italy's Worst Machine Gun: The Breda Modello 30




**: I think these are Dutch troops of some kind (KNIL used the Breda M-30) using a Dutch design of ammunition pack.
       This image seems to confirm the KNIL link:
       
       And it would have helped if I'd read the image link, too; "dutch-knil-soldiers-with-breda-m30-light-machine-gun-during-ww2-png"

[zenrat]

It's a jet pack.  He's wearing it upside down.

[PR19_Kit]

It's a jet pack.  He's wearing it upside down.

That would be to help him 'dig in' when the enemy fire gets REALLY bad then, eh? 

[NARSES2]

B10+B11 is certainly an ammo can.  The backpack is probably, like perttime said, spare barrels with tripod in the box.  Which would make the figure an assistant machine gunner.

Agree 

[The Rat]

It's a jet pack.  He's wearing it upside down.

The exact words I was going to post! 

[zenrat]

It's a jet pack.  He's wearing it upside down.

The exact words I was going to post! 

Great minds etc.