Originally posted by Vulcan
Equally why would you keep antidotes in glass vials as opposed to ready to go hyperdermic packs?
Glass ampoules were standard containers for medicinal drugs in the Soviet Army.
And from my Soviet military past I even vaguelly remmember some instructions about the handling of the antidote ampoules (as far as I recollect, you should break off the spearhead-shaped tip, but do it in a snap, because there's a precut groove in the neck of the vial, ... and so on and so forth...).