Helmets were designed as bump caps, since injuring your head is a common occurrence when moving around. Secondly acting as protection to shrapnel. Most helmets today aren't strong enough to stop a direct shot from a handgun.
@@IrregularrAFthat’s the most crap I’ve ever heard, the steel helmet was designed to lower the amount of shrapnel casualties in ww1, so ur theory with bumping your head is nonsense, besides there wasn’t even anything to bump your head against in the trenches. And helmets nowadays are capable of stopping 308 rounds
@@Maximus2108 helmets can't stop anything besides handguns and even then fail. This is a universal fact. The bump cap is a result of modern engineering and needs. I made a mistake implying that was the original reason.
@@Maximus2108 I know the history of helmets, it's something I study a lot. Noncombat head injuries are the most common head injuries, which is why I mentioned it. Shrapnel was its original purpose. But you're free to prove yourself wrong and look at the testing regarding helmets that stop intermittent cartridges. They often use rounds that are designed to be shot against unarmored targets. The newest helmet of the US Army was advertised for its strength and modularity. Unfortunately, its as strong as the previous gen. There's helmet armor mods that are being advocated as being able to stop rifles. Once again, the same skewed testing. Seen plenty of videos of people testing them. Best a helmet can do is NIJ IIIA, and even then it's not a promise.
Nice video, only thing is the Russian helmet shown is an Ssh-40, not an Ssh-39. Overall helmet shape was the same, but the rivet pattern and liners were different.
To be honest, the japanese type 90 helmet sucked, it was made of the thinnest metal out of every helmet of ww2, no protection at all
Helmets were designed as bump caps, since injuring your head is a common occurrence when moving around. Secondly acting as protection to shrapnel.
Most helmets today aren't strong enough to stop a direct shot from a handgun.
@@IrregularrAFthat’s the most crap I’ve ever heard, the steel helmet was designed to lower the amount of shrapnel casualties in ww1, so ur theory with bumping your head is nonsense, besides there wasn’t even anything to bump your head against in the trenches. And helmets nowadays are capable of stopping 308 rounds
@@Maximus2108 helmets can't stop anything besides handguns and even then fail. This is a universal fact.
The bump cap is a result of modern engineering and needs. I made a mistake implying that was the original reason.
@@IrregularrAF no know history first man helmets nowadays are designed to stop bullets of higher caliber rounds than a 9 mil
@@Maximus2108 I know the history of helmets, it's something I study a lot. Noncombat head injuries are the most common head injuries, which is why I mentioned it. Shrapnel was its original purpose.
But you're free to prove yourself wrong and look at the testing regarding helmets that stop intermittent cartridges. They often use rounds that are designed to be shot against unarmored targets.
The newest helmet of the US Army was advertised for its strength and modularity. Unfortunately, its as strong as the previous gen.
There's helmet armor mods that are being advocated as being able to stop rifles. Once again, the same skewed testing. Seen plenty of videos of people testing them. Best a helmet can do is NIJ IIIA, and even then it's not a promise.
Awesome vid. Writing went away too fast.
I was looking for an Italian type
Nice video, only thing is the Russian helmet shown is an Ssh-40, not an Ssh-39. Overall helmet shape was the same, but the rivet pattern and liners were different.
Is the WW2 American helmet the same as the Vietnam War helmet ?
Yes, the M1 helmet
Good question… Yes I’m fact it is the same helmet as ww2 but modernized and with a new liner and camo covers
The german stalhelms are Similiar to Pasgt Helmets