US Army can go to plastic safety helmets

The US Army is looking for a replacement helmet for soldiers. At the Pentagon’s “Close Combat Lethality Tech Day”, representatives of the NSRDEC (US Army Soldier’s Equipment Research Center) presented some of the developments that could be used in the future to create and adopt a combat helmet that has not only light weight but also provides better protection than US Army samples.

Of the several types of helmets presented, representatives of the US Army were interested in a prototype of a new sample, made not from Kevlar, like the others, but from special polyethylene. According to the developers, the new helmet weighs only 1,13 kg and at the same time protects the soldier’s head from 9 caliber bullets, explosive fragments and quote: "common rifle bullets weapons". Unfortunately, more information on this sample is not available.

When developing the helmet, a special type of plastic was used, namely, “ultra high molecular polyethylene”, which made it possible to reduce the weight of the prototype by almost a quarter of the weight of the protective helmets used by the army. This polymer is used in various industries, it is very light and does not corrode. During the operation of the new helmet, the use of fabric covers is provided for imparting masking properties.

Representatives of the developer said that at present the prototype is not ready for mass production and it will take at least another year before it will be possible to launch it in the series. And this is the case if the American army chooses it as a protective helmet for its military personnel. Currently, the helmet is being tested in various conditions.

Comments

[Russia]

Let them pass, good health to them. The helmet can stand, but the Bosko will fly off.

[Vard]

“provides protection for the soldier’s head from 9 mm bullets” Well, I don’t know the bullet ... But the brick that fell from a height of ten meters does not break the building helmet ... but it breaks the neck ...

[Gnefredov]

They brought Vovochka and other children on a tour to the construction site. The foreman gave them helmets.
- Children, put them on, otherwise there was such a case: a boy and a girl went to a construction site, the girl was in a helmet, and the boy was not. And a brick fell on their head. The boy died immediately, and the girl laughed and ran away.
Here is the voice of Vovochka:
- Uncle foreman! I know this girl! She still runs and laughs.

[bouncyhunter]

the new helmet weighs only 1,13 kg and at the same time protects the soldier’s head from 9 mm bullets and fragments of explosive devices

Russian helmet 6B26 weighs 0,9 kg and has 1 protection class (9 mm bullets and fragments).

and quote: "bullets of common small arms"

Doubtless allegation.

[Logall]

Quote: bouncyhunter

and quote: "bullets of common small arms"
Doubtless allegation

I agree, Pavel, because the most common small arms are Kalash!

[bouncyhunter]

Sasha A helmet can survive. What about the neck?

[Logall]

You can check it empirically. Need a volunteer ...

[Sanichsan]

so it. already checked the same. actually americos. there was a TK on the helmet withstanding a hit from AK. 7.62 of course prototype manufactured.
you can’t talk about weight characteristics since the helmet was not adopted. during the tests it turned out that the neck breaks stably.

[Glory1974]

A helmet can survive. What about the neck?

One bullet flew from AK-74 to the “sphere” for us. It pierced both the sphere and the head. The guy became disabled, survived by a miracle. But the neck did not hurt.

[KP8789]

In words, everything keeps, but in fact, not everything is so smooth.
Shooting the helmet from the "warrior" 6B47:

[Ugrumiy]

P .... c! And in this our fighters are fighting! We laugh at the amers, but the city itself is armed!

[Mih1974]

You know, you probably "know everything about the war and the Broniks," but personally I trust the opinions of those who fought. Namely, there is such a Vatnik (Sergey Vasidevsky), so he writes - that gradually they began to get rid of the armor plates on the front lines, because often the through one does less damage than the “spinning” bullet when the armor is pierced.

[Hog]

Those who went on the armor for fear of detonation of a land mine / mine and who were mowed by the first stage with the same armored personnel carriers and bmp?

[Mih1974]

After Vatnik “burned” the Ukrofashist’s concrete - he and all their units who saw with their own eyes what it was like to “burn in an APC” flatly refused to ride inside . Something to me again their opinion seems more correct than yours.

[Hog]

Brilliant logic, why then tanks if they are also knocked out?

[Mih1974]

There are "couch experts", "staff generals" and "rear geniuses" of military equipment (designers), and then - "trouble happens," the War. Which ALL puts in its place: "all-conquering German tank hordes" - cardboard against KV-1 and even T-34, excellent German technology - stupidly freezes at -30 and it turns out that Russia (USSR) is extremely big and winters “happen” in it. And to remind how BT hordes were "happy" and WHAT happened to them? Can we recall the "brilliant and the best in the world" American machine gun - which crap in both Vietnam and the deserts? Maybe the "ingenious" and "completely invisible" F-117.
I’m all about the fact that it is the War and the opinion of the people who fought that matters !!

[Hog]

1) "all-conquering German tank hordes" - cardboard against KV-1 and even T-34.
And take off Stuku and Flaki fought perfectly, and most importantly, they fought with themselves because broke at a time.
2) "And recall how the BT hordes were" happy "and WHAT happened to them?"
The same as with all the others, under the bombs there is no difference BT or HF.
3) "Can we recall the" genius and best in the world "American machine gun - which crap in Vietnam and in the deserts?"
In Vietnam, it has not yet been finalized. In the desert, if he was not used as a shovel, there were no special problems with him.
Kalash was created for fools who do not follow weapons.
4) "not visible at all" F-117. "
One shot down, but how many "non-stealth" shot down?

[Sanichsan]

and what is "P ... c"? hit with a pistol withstood, as stated in the specifications. it looks like "g.no" not in service but somewhere else
for reference, the American analogue does not hold a bullet from a pistol.

[Ugrumiy]

Wake up! What did he endure !? All shots - penetration, right through, or a strong back-off effect that can cause a legal outcome or serious injury. Again, in the latter case, when they fired just with PM, if they fired a bullet with a steel core, there would again be a break, and even that obstacle would not be enough. In addition, keep in mind that the shelling of the helmet is not from five meters, but from a much greater distance.
So he did not confirm his performance characteristics.

[Sanichsan]

Quote: Ugrumiy

Wake up! What did he endure !? All shots - breaking through

1:11-1:26.

Quote: Ugrumiy

Again, in the latter case, when they shot just with PM

so decide already whether they struck or didn’t. or an irresistible desire to cry makes it difficult to perceive facts?

[Ugrumiy]

I then decided, and you, apparently, read the comments diagonally and pull out phrases from the context.
No one here is crying. The army should be the best, and not bullshit under the guise of another "having no analogues in the world." I would have looked at you in this plastic bucket after “keeping” it from PM ... with broken bones of the skull, pressed into the brain from the impact of the bullet and would listen to your cheers. Probably would not have heard.

[Sanichsan]

Quote: Ugrumiy

I would look at you in this plastic bucket after "keeping" the hit from PM ...

uh nah. it's cry! no roar! and with horseradish? maybe there is a helmet after getting into which from the PM "the girl will laugh and go on" ??? or maybe you’re ready to clip in the armor from the same PM is understandable without harm to health? come on! say yes tell me that you have examples of helmets in which, when a bullet hits, there are no consequences for the fighter?
oh ... or maybe you think that a strong coercion is much worse than a PM bullet in the skull?
and I don’t have a cheer comment. I just state that from what is in the world this is a very worthy option of protection.
if you are going to answer, then please give examples of "significantly better helmets" and not to say "all gone !! 1". more constructive!

[Vadim237]

Yes, in this super helmet, even from holding a bullet, a fighter will die.

[Mih1974]

And now imagine that such a helmet really holds Kalash - here you are lying on the ground under fire and raise your head to see "what and how" and a bullet from the kagal flies into your helmet. 1) if it came straight into the helmet - you don’t care if the helmet can stand it or not, you are dead for breaking the neck (huge kinetics of the bullet) 2) the bullet came along the tangent if the helmet is “shit” or it wasn’t - there is a chance with a tangential wound to survive if the helmet is "good" - you KAYUK for (see 1) broken neck of hell.

[Hog]

A review from the geniuses of the brain, which is not clear in the phrase "provides protection against 9-mm bullets of cartridges 57-Н-181С of the PM pistol from a distance of 5 meters."
Where on the PM video ???
These inadequate people would have shot with the KPVT, and then said that he was not holding.

[Sanichsan]

Quote: Hog

Where on the PM video ???

Well, as if in the beginning. if not PM then something close. first 3 shots. and helmet weathered. so what kind of howl is not very clear here helmet in the TTX.

[prosto_rgb]

and what kind of submachine gun does he have at 1.42?

[Vend]

Let them switch to cardboard helmets, real cost savings.

[User]

Why these ridicule in the comments. I do not know specifically about this implementation, but the idea itself is absolutely justified. Modern science knows about various materials that were not suspected when metal helmets went into mass use. And the further, the more interesting properties of materials open. Let's give a simple example, during World War I metal cuirasses were still used, and today's bulletproof vests are not even close to them. Why doesn’t anyone shout that the military of all countries are stupid and that soldiers need to wear armor?

[Vend]

Quote: User

Why doesn’t anyone shout that the military of all countries are stupid and that soldiers need to wear armor?

Because the armor proved its worthlessness in the late Middle Ages, against the first firearm.

[Weyland]

Quote: Wend

armor proved useless in the late Middle Ages, against the first firearm.

The massive "schizenpancer" was useless, but the Milanese shell "held" the musket bullet from a hundred steps, and the pistol point-blank. But it cost so much dofig that a knight in a Milanese shell cost the same money as a platoon of Landsknechts with muskets - and whose combat effectiveness was higher, it is easy to guess.

[novobranets]

Quote: Wend

armor proved useless in the late Middle Ages, against the first firearm.

They began to prove it even earlier, against crossbows.

[Sergey ippon]

there were no technologies and materials at that time, the shell defeated the armor

[MPN]

Quote: Rusland

The helmet can stand, but the Bosko will fly off.

What a strange method for determining security ...

protection of the head of a serviceman from 9 mm bullets

by caliber ..., as I understand it (helmet), only 12,7 are scary ...

[Weyland]

Quote: MPN

What a strange method for determining security ...

How to say ... 9 mm - pistol caliber Back in the years of WWI, they tried to make helmet pads that would "hold" a rifle bullet - and found out that the helmet can withstand, but the neck - no! The task of the helmet is, first of all, protection against fragments of shells, as an additional option - pistol and submachine gun bullets. But not from rifle / machine guns!

[MPN]

Quote: Weyland

How to say ... 9 mm - pistol caliber

Pistol bullet pistol bullet discord ...

[scientist]

If everything was so simple, then probably everyone would have long guessed on a normal construction helmet to stick a simple Kevlar.

[Lavrenti Pavlovich]

What money is laundered, instead of a helmet, the soldiers want to put on a plastic bag. Maybe the tanks will start making plastic ones.

[forty-eighth]

We have been using non-metallic war helmets for a long time, no need to sarcaste.

[Yrec]

Kevlar is "ultra high molecular weight polyethylene." We have an analogue - arimide (aramid fiber).

[prosto_rgb]

Quote: Yrec

Kevlar is "ultra high molecular weight polyethylene." We have an analogue - arimide (aramid fiber).

Kevlar e is not polyethylene, at least low, at least highly molecular.

[Ivan_080]

Well, in general, yes: the first and second are polymers.

[Sergey ippon]

as with the rest.

[aszzz888]

... let them first put into production, "run" into the database and then blow into the pipes ...

[san4es]

The U.S. Army is looking for a replacement combat helmet for soldiers.

sept. 2017 year

[Strashila]

They’ll check ... they will accept, then they will find out that +45 in the sun from losing its shape from heating, and - 45 bursts from freezing.

[Gnefredov]

... with my head

[tracer]

straight ripped off the tongue ..

[Engineer]

On my Bosko, the Oskor helmet made of such material weighs less than 1 kg. In these helmets, all of our special forces of elite units run around. So, if a Yankee such a helmet becomes a combined arms, then it is very cool.

[marshes]

In Russia, about 5-7 years ago, such a helmet began to be produced from pressed polyethylene, it was shown by the Star.

[Weyland]

Quote: marshes

In Russia, about 5-7 years ago, such a helmet began to be produced from pressed polyethylene.

They started to start, but serious problems appeared immediately! Details here: http://www.arms-expo.ru/news/archive/vysokomoleku
lyarnyy-polietilen-revolutionary-v-sredstvah-bronez
aschity17-05-2013-11-26-00/

[Weyland]

Quote: Engineer

So, if a Yankee such a helmet becomes a combined arms, then it is very cool.

How to say ... High-modulus polyethylene has an interesting property: it holds a Kalash or M-16 bullet from a hundred meters, but from five hundred - no! wassat At a speed of 600-700 m / s, the bullet is strongly deformed and braked, but at 300-400 m / s it is not deformed, and its tip pierces the polyethylene without problems! laughing
details here: http://www.arms-expo.ru/news/archive/vysokomoleku
lyarnyy-polietilen-revolutionary-v-sredstvah-bronez
aschity17-05-2013-11-26-00/.
So for the special forces, usually coming into fire contact at short range, this helmet is quite suitable, but for the army - hardly!

[alex007i]

Let them go directly to the paper, in a good way.

[Servisinzhener]

Maybe we can do without antics. Helmets 6B26, 6B27, 6B28 are also not all-metal, but at the same time they have the first class of protection.

[tracer]

You can sit on an old steel helmet like on a chair. I agree it doesn’t seem very convenient, but after walking in the mountain air and in the mountains .. I catch the thought that my armchair in front of the TV on the wall is not such a soft ka that that inverted helmet on the stones. What about a bronik? A chic thing is either a mattress or a blanket ...)))) not like now ... Pampering)))

[Normal ok]

US Army can go to plastic safety helmets

And now from what? From cast iron ?! Kevlar is the same polymer as what is planned.

[prosto_rgb]

Quote: Normal ok

US Army can go to plastic safety helmets

And now from what? From cast iron ?! Kevlar is the same polymer as what is planned.

no. not like that
although from artificial

[Dreamboat]

The pursuit of reducing the mass of the helmet results in a decrease in the area of ​​the helmet (protection). I don’t understand the fashion for bicycle helmets that do not cover whiskey at all. Headphones are of course comfortable to wear, but the earpiece does not hold shards! A bunch of "rails" reduces the likelihood of a ricochet of a bullet from a helmet, that is, all kinetics come to the shooter's neck ...

[tagil]

The helmet protects against bullets at the end and splinters, in trenches and city buildings from stones and construction debris, as well as with various blows by the head against various objects, and death from a short distance. And what it is made of does not matter, the main thing is to fulfill its function. And special forces rarely wear helmets. At the output, each gram per kilogram.

[slavaseven]

In the USA army, if you are without a helmet, your armor, protection is injured, and you will not be treated for insurance. You’ll have to recover at your own expense

[tagil]

Thank God, it’s not in their army, and the Russian “maybe” has not been canceled, and the command knows about this. In my youth, I saw how a DSh company went into the mountains for several days in armor, helmets and in full gear. Three hours later they returned. The weight was not lifting. And specialists in armor and helmets are a very, very big exception (if this is not a city), and not a single commander will force them to put all this stuff on, and they themselves will not dress.

[Lena Petrova]

Saucepans are possible. Tested and cheap. And there are already suppliers.

[Weyland]

Dofig comments, but in the case - a little! High modulus polyethylene has an interesting property: holds a “Kalash” bullet from one hundred meters, but from five hundred - no! At a speed of 600-700 m / s, the bullet is strongly deformed and braked, but at 300-400 m / s it is not deformed, and its tip pierces the polyethylene without problems!
details here: http://www.arms-expo.ru/news/archive/vysokomoleku
lyarnyy-polietilen-revolutionary-v-sredstvah-bronez
aschity17-05-2013-11-26-00 /. To quote the end of this article:
In the field of protective structures for bulletproof vests and armored vehicles, high molecular weight polyethylene has already paved a solid and reliable road for itself, but much more research will be required to use this material in the field of head protection.

[missuris]

Still, I will clarify:

UHMWPE holds up to 3 Russian defense levels in theory.

regarding protection against “Kalash”, armor plates made of this material keep HUNTING ammunition made of soft metals which can crumble at an obstacle at a high speed of 600-700 m / s and not enter it, the same property for aramids, to which “Kevlar” refers, but the problem of the aramids is that they are woven, and even a lead HUNTING bullet from the “Kalash" can creep between the threads at high speed, in theory, aramids are stronger than old bullet-proofs, they simply cannot be weaved at the micro level. UHMWPE breaks through all fast bullets with a STEEL core, not even hardened. those. it’s possible to break through from FiveSeven, a 5.7mm steel core is 600-700 meters per second. something like this. rather than buying them sorry for the money) bronikov and helmets probably 5 years, and even the generals are old))

[missuris]

and yet I wrote incorrectly in the article: High molecular weight polyethylene - a revolution in means of armor protection. more precisely it is written, in appearance, polyethylene even holds a steel core if it is a cylinder. and the cone at a speed of 400 meters will pass. because tested the PS-43 bullet from AKM. then at a speed of 700 m / s, the cone of the bullet shirt crashed on polyethylene and the core cylinder got stuck in the material. at a speed of 400 m / s, the bullet’s shirt was not damaged (if the photo is the same bullet) and the bullet pierced the panel. those. Does the material need a large contact area? need shooting with a steel cone at 700 meters and a steel cylinder at 400 meters.

[Mih1974]

Hog,
You forgive the "not smart person" or Troll? I’ll give you examples of “wah like underwafer - oh, that’s rubbish, really,” and you told me “and then you modified it or replaced it and THEN it showed itself” !!
If you still stupid, I give you examples - when before the Military expectations were MISTAKING, and we give me examples of AFTER application in the war.

[vadimtt]

They also forgot to say that such a helmet protects from neutron weapons
For the brain is the least resistant organ to intense neutron irradiation (more than 1000 r / h), and polyethylene (especially high molecular weight crosslinked boron) is one of the most effective shielding materials.

[tuts]

if it doesn’t shoot, it will go,
can go directly to baseball players

[Olegovi4]

The fact that the photo is more like a panama from the sun. The area is smaller and smaller. Soon they’ll reach the skullcaps.