Extremely secure when closed and opening it is very fast and completely silent

>Extremely secure when closed and opening it is very fast and completely silent
Why didn't this style of magazine flap ever become more popular? Far as I know almost no one used it outside of Germany (which did make a modified version for G3's later on) and most countries just defaulted to buttons or awkward peg and loops, you'd think more Eastern Bloc countries would have liked and used it for their own LBE's.

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The US used it for the entire Vietnam war

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Canada used a very similar retention system on the 82 pattern webgear

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Neat, I thought US used the two prong pouches during Vietnam, guess those were a later design then.

I'll give you two prongs, straight up the ass!

China used it too

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the two prong clasp was introduced with the M67 pattern in 1967 but never saw widespread use. The two prong clasp was also used with the ALICE system.

Slot and bail/Spanish fly/whatever it’s called is truly masterrace, the various Warsaw Pact pouches just need a pull tab on the retention flap like Use for ease of opening. The only downside is it doesn’t reseal like Velcro does so you need either a figid and/or heavy lid to retain the contents of pouches that hold more than one mag unless you plan on pausing and using your fine motor skills in the middle of a firefight to seal them up again. Those Chinese type 83 rigs are perfect for 20rnd ak and mini 14 mags, btw

I absolutely love these little pouches and always keep an eye out for them at pawnshops/flea markets/surplus stores.

The Swiss military uses a similar pattern for their webbing model 1990. Worked with it extensively and it's a freaking nightmare under stressful situations. Easy enough to open, but shit to close back up especially if you have pouches made of soft materials without a rigid structure. Couple this with gloved hands in the winter and you have a recipe for some shit gear. This leads to losing mags, flares, grenades and all sorts of shit especially when working in the dark without the possibility of visual confirmation. Had a guy in a buddy's squad lose three full magazines and a flashbang in the same night exercise because both his side pouches didn't close properly and he couldn't see it; the poor fuck had to check the entire field for a couple of hours (1-3am) in order to find the bloody things.
Snaps and velcro aren't silent, but they are just as secure (velcro especially) and easier to use without involving high dexterity movements under stress. It would also benefit the whole thing to have individual mag pouches so that you don't have to close the damn thing up every time you do a mag change, which is exactly what we're switching to as I speak.

TL; Dr, it's a very workable system if certain conditions are observed. Works fine if you don't have to close it back up under stress with freezing fingers.