The new helmet is made of an Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, a lightweight material that provides a higher degree of protection than Kevlar and Twaron used Army's current Advanced Combat Helmet and the Marine Lightweight Helmet without adding any additional weight.
"This helmet is above and beyond," Kathy Halo, ECH lead engineer, said in a Marine Corps Systems Command release. "The ECH fully exploits the latest lightweight material technology. … It provides increased small-arms ballistic protection above what is currently provided by the Lightweight and Advanced Combat helmets." So instead of protecting against 9mm ammunition and shell fragments, the new ECH is capable of stopping higher-velocity rifle rounds commonly used by enemy forces, program officials maintain.
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All fine and good, but I don't care how good the helmet is, if you're hit in the head with a round, especially a (high powered) rifle round, it will ring your clock and concuss you. You may not be dead, or even bodily injured, but you'll still be out of the game.
So just remember that, boys and girls, when the LEOs and po-pos come banging on your door in a SWAT stack, "head and hips, hips and head".
B Woodman
III-per
I don't care. I still miss the steel pots.
Ok....But..This is the same propaganda line used by the US Military since the advent of Kevlar. You guys that are old enough may remember the 1983 headlines , "The new ballistic fiber helmet will stop AK -47 rounds" and "The new "Kevlar" helmet stops AK-47 rounds on Grenada" .The Army said and published the same bullshit about the Kevlar vest saying; "It will stop fragments and rifle rounds up to 3000FPS". They published THAT one until the first gulf war. I am allways amazed that people who say that the government lies about everything will believe the most outrageous bullshit about military gear--and military gear is THE ONE THING that they are most likely to lie about. Ray
I have read official published DOD specs that put a standard M-80 7.62X51 round penetrating the sierra hotel dragon scale body inside 400 yards. Whether or not the round penetrates either body armor or helmet is irrelevant. Either way the target will lose all interest in hurting me or mine at least for a while. If they get back up you ust knock 'em on their ass again. When the firefight is over, a .22lr to one or the other eye will dispatch them permanently thereby freeing up ammo, a nice select-fire infantry weapon and whatever else the trooper was wearing/carrying. If I manage to put them down permanently, then so much the better. I don't have to waste valuable trade goods dispatching them. And that's just me and my little old popgun FNAR. Some on our side are going to be using weapons that will put a full grown bull moose or a big male grizz on his ass with one shot. Don't know about you but I would NOT wanna be on the receiving end of something like that! In a way 9/11 was a godsend. It is this generation's version of the French and Indian War. Lots of combat veterans - enlisted and commissioned - have separated after multiple tours in both the sandbox AND the rockpile. Lot of potential combat leaders out there.
And this time we're not gonna need amatuer military historians plying Loyalist Officers with drinks at a local bar to get an understanding of tactics and doctrine. We will have recent grads of all the important military schools PLUS being able to read the most current manuals online. I have no doubt in my mind that there will be a huge spike in fragging just like there was in the Nam. I don't reckon a .223 projectile fired from a semi-auto M-16 clone will look any different from one fired from a select-fire M-4.
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