Sipsey Street Irregulars: Tacticool Tuesday - I give you the future of helmets, assuming we can still pay for it of course

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Tacticool Tuesday - I give you the future of helmets, assuming we can still pay for it of course

New ballistic helmet brings you one step closer to Iron Man

"The Devtac Ronin Level IIIA Ballistic Helmet was unveiled at SHOT Show 2016. This ventilated two part helmet provides 70% ballistics protection (it may not be 100% but it’s a lot more than 0%). The cheekguards can be removed as necessary to provide access for a solid cheek weld when switching to firearms that aren’t modified to work with the helmet. Marketed for military and SWAT applications, the helmet will be available for civilian purchase later this year. The general look of the helmet is definitely intimidating. You wouldn’t want to see a squad of these bad boys coming for you."

I don't know about Iron Man, but definitely a little closer to Starship Troopers power armor mixed with a General Greivous look.

I cannot believe this particular model being will be fielded by either Officer Friendly or Private Snuffy. I see a huge design error alone with the relatively limited field of view and the enclosed facemask that ensures you will be sucking in your own CO2. These are the same reasons I hate paintball masks. I understand what that it happens to have a fan system included but I also I know what happens to fans in the desert. Just like everything else mechanical, it gets dirty and breaks. Not exactly sustainable, is it?

It is like it was made by some damn MILSIM airsofters and not DARPA, ergo, no one actually tested the damn thing before they decided to showcase it at Shotshow 2016. But I digress.

It does, however, represent a small step to the realization of future land warrior concept. In 2013, a little fuss was made regarding the new helmets that were being developed, but I am unaware of an integrated GPS and communications platform being put through its paces. Money and the willingness to have the taxpayer foot the bill for a helmet worth thousands of dollars per unit will be the deciding factor. Of course, if the Department of Defense get's any smaller due to personnel cuts, we may just be able to afford it.

Time will tell.

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Anonymous said...: http://kapexbodyarmor.com/ballistic-face-mask-level-iiia/
^ This has already been tested its on youtube.^
It was designed for the point man in the stack, first in through the door. I think the Russians has it right using a clear face shield and helmet. The mask looks restrictive.; June 14, 2016 at 9:12 AM
Anonymous said...: Absolute trash. Each of the sharp turns in form and direction serves as a face, or even a trap, to catch bullets that would otherwise deflect. Those damned channels will channel alright, clean into the valleys and grooves and through the armor.

They are death waiting to happen.; June 14, 2016 at 9:31 AM
Anonymous said...: I was thinking more "Terminator" than "Iron Man".
Either way, still out of my current price range, I'm sure.

B Woodman
III-per; June 14, 2016 at 9:44 AM
RJM said...: At ~7 kilos forget about it! Oh my aching C2-C5 discs. Also a bad guy armed with a spray can of paint in addition to his weapons will blind this helmut.; June 14, 2016 at 11:29 AM
oughtsix said...: So?

Takes a quantum leap to supersede present capabilities.

Stop faunchin' about fedtyrant fantasies

Liberty finds a Way....; June 16, 2016 at 12:46 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Tacticool Tuesday - I give you the future of helmets, assuming we can still pay for it of course

New ballistic helmet brings you one step closer to Iron Man

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