The M1 helmet was actually first used in WWII

i mean they had ballistic nylon, and mid to late war pilots were given body armor that was made from ceramic.

@@kevinm2365 no shit

@@ultramarine3527 soldiers were issued body armour but it was rare to see it being worn as it traps in heat and it would be horrible to wear in Vietnam

@@kevinm2365 We know that, they made post war helmets in order to produce enough helmets for Vietnam

Sir, I don't want to disturb you, but can I ask how Vietnam was?

Thanks for the info I was curious about the sks

@@elpibelol5005 nice question. I want to know about it too

The liners were a resin stiffened fiberglass composite, not meant to have any ballistic defense, just to allow the steel pot to sit comfortably on your head. When not in combat you wore the liner. It was the same as used in WWII.

@@elpibelol5005 It was not good my friend was a Vietnam Vet and he told me stories and you wouldn't have wanted to be there.

Chỉ cần k54 hoặc tt33 là ok xuyên thủng hết

Anhson Bui English please

I cant tell if Jozsef toth is being sarcastic or not

@@timnguyen2977 k54 and tt33 can shoot throw the helmet

@@timnguyen2977 He said that is the same helmet the us marines wore in the american war of 1965-1975

​@@jimmymarsh2489both rounds will go through a car door. Remember that inside a door there are other objects that may stop the round from making a full penetration. Mainly the motor that controls the window.

Probably 😂😂😂😂😂

IM READY!!

The camera man is his dad

YES, I'M READY!

Still though most steel helmets from that era would reliably stop a single 9x19 or .45 ACP. The US Army had a training video in WW2 that told soldiers to not bother using the .45 ACP on German helmets.

Semper Fi 3/4 Marines

Not fiberglass, ww2 were made of cotton and Vietnam era were made of Ballistic Nylon

That is exactly what I thought

"kids these days" says the kid himself

​@@ocelotrevolver674 Admittedly I'm not old enough (or the correct nationality) to have been in the Vietnam War, but it's a long time since anyone called me a kid!

Same here where have they been. They sadly could figure it out with Chinese soldier’s today.

100 pro ....

Yes his grandfather brought back an M16 from WWI!😄

@@romeyburgin7221 lol 🤣🤣

His grandfather fought for the Roman Empire and brought a minigun from that age.

What’s with all the grandpa jokes? This is the second video I’ve seen. Is it an inside joke? Or does he just lie a lot? Lol

@@smokeyveras7235 his grandpa is a time traveler and had fought in every war... Hell he even got the Medal of honour in the Clone War

Fred G 😂😂😂😂

Or Pai Mei

Eric Ferguson I was thinking he fought when the Big Bang theory took place probably was a war in itself. 🤣😅

He fought in EVERY war!!!

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@@Lord-rf4ct no, el apellido Condori es de Perú

Lieutenant Dan.

Sounds more like "Vietneeem"

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Se acercará la potencia de un rifle de aire Sumatra cal25 al de una pistola Cal .22?

don't worry it isn't a real vietnam helmet. The helmet in the video is a postwar helmet from the 80s.

@@kriegsmarine5806 yeah, the cover in M81, so it's post war.

Steel pot was post vietnam. But liner was vietnam era made in very good condition. So he ruined only liner, but that is sad too for me.

The war ended in i think 1969 and this helmet is from the 1980s so it is post war and therefore not used in the Vietnam War

@@rodrigomegale1338 th- the war ended in '75.

The 2nt helmet master you can't leave me

Mr WOLF ....lol

Lmao

This happened when the helmet saw the .50 AE round ...

And they only hit your helmet lmao

All things are

@@iiiiiiiiiiiiiii4019 always has been.

@@DEV3N87 boom

Yup also a very few soviet ak

Type 56s I believe

@@DBZ483 Yup

Also SKS with the same rounds

Also many weapons were captured, and early in the war they even made their own crude weapons like shotguns and submachine guns. The NVA wasn't widely equipped with AK-47's till later in the war, 1966-67

According to Wikipedia The inner liner is made out of Phenolic resin olive drab cotton twill fabric stretched over the outside.

That’s a negatory minuteman that’s resin impregnated cotton. Like the person above me explained.

@@Evergreen1400 I wonder which is stronger, fiberglass or resin-cotton.

@@Green_Bullet which is a type of fiberglass. Fiberglass can have many types of fabric as the base. Natural/synthetic fiber + resin = Fiberglass.

Also that helmet liner was in horrible condition

The German ww2 helmet was actually the best helmet in the world… WAS the skirt that ran around the helmet protected the neck and head the most from shrapnel

@@Gunsnstuff26 The German helmet is iconic and very good, but, the US M-1 helmet came down the sides as far as the German design as it was adjustable, and almost as far in the rear, but allowed a little clearance in the prone position, whereas the German helmet did not. There are many photos of American soldiers and marines only needing to raise their heads to see forward and many pics of Germans having to bend at the back to do so because of the low flange that blocked the neck. Thus, they often had to put their upper body into jeopardy. That's one of the reasons later German helmets were "trimmed" up as well as saving material. As far as ballistic protection, the American M-1 helmet has been proven superior in small caliber tests. It's on KZfaq if you do a search. It is a fact that the American Army in WW2 was the best equipped, most mobile/mechanised, best fed, and healthiest army in history up to that time from boots and bullets, to tooth brushes, to chewing gum. And, the US industrial base was capable of supplying a substantial amount of equipment to allies, plus the country could have fielded another 11 million men easily. Our fortunate geographical position afforded us time to make sure the gear we sent to the troops was the best we could make given the budgets, which were large. The nations of Europe and Asia did not have that luxury, and the Germans went with a very old helmet and boot design - not to mention the old bolt action rifle. By the end of the war, they had switched to an American style boots and semi-auto rifles where they could.

@@OutnBacker Right, The M1 was better for protecting being shot, but because the skirt on the german helmet protected the neck and head it was better for shrapnel. And yes i 100% agree with you that the us had the strongest and most advanced army for that time.😁

Reduce* mate

Jack Beacon yes thanks for catching my mistake

I believe these liners were a resin impregnated molded fiberglass. They were not meant to stop anything.

@@masonryan6101 sure mate, btw thx for the info, that was an interesting one.

@@OnTheRiver66 I think though there was some intent to keep the metal from denting too far in.

Que paso

@General grievous no sí eso lo sé pero hay datos que meda pereza esforzarme en traducirlo y cuando escucho al mexicano hablar en inglés pues me pongo de mal humor porque digo: porque no habla en español el man xd

Jaja

Entonces el men que hace el video es mexicano

@@whoarebroyt3801 noooo

The liner was cotton with resin and later plastic not fibreglass

The primary reason of helmets has been to stop shrapnel for years, since world war 1. Some of the only helmets designed to stop bullets and that were actually used are the soviet maska-1 and Altyn from the first Chechen war

Holy shit a bullet flying round the inside of your helmet sounds like a movie scene

Also arisaka rifles and kar98s (ww2 capture) supplied by the soviets and other communist bloc weapons.

Also AK-47s genuine from tge USSR

They also had anything they could get their hands on, like guns captured from french, american and south vietnamese troops. So basically any Soviet, Chinese, French or American weapon from WW1 to the Vietnam war era. They also had weapons from the Japanese left over from when they occupied Indochina during ww2.

@@Denis-ej9fu NVA mostly had those, but you're right.

AKMs too

Lol 😂

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They write your azs up if they caught you cooking in them. Because that burned off the paint that was toxic then you would eat and Get sick. So we would take one from the arven troops and burn them so they didn't have paint. They told us the helmet was good for washing your socks in the field. And to hold water to shave.

The vietnam era hard cap liner was made from ballistic nylon

2090: This is an Solar Blaster from 20XX, my grandpa brought it back from Dr. Light lab.

3000:this high titanium bullet molting helmet my grampa brought this from ww5, the 20th century war that wiped out 30% of humanity

3080: this is the omega anti-matter laser boom boom gun that i found in my grandpa basement.

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Fortunate Son intensifies.

Alex V, Paint in black sounds in the background

That stuff isn't healthy for the helmet's durability.

Boiling water would ruin the metal and make it very brittle so usually they didn’t do it

As a soldier who was trained in the use of the very same steel pot helmet, I disagree. US Army, 1976-1980. Boiling water, frying eggs, digging a ditch, clubbing an enemy were all legit uses of the pot. Oh, you could wear it on your head, too! No way in the world that boiling water is going to embrittle ANY grade of steel, let alone the medium carbon steel of the pot. It was made ductile so you could hammer out a deep dent and re-use the thing! The liner is kept dry, but that's so the cotton straps don't rot and the snaps don't rust; the fiberglass liner was water-proof. Do your research, civvies!

I used the steel helmet for a basin to use when I shaved in the base area, I've heard that some folks when up near the Z, were at some base and did not have their mess gear with them, and had to use the steel pot as a mess tin to collect the food, and they did do it, as opposed to going hungry.

@@pirobot668beta it sure was done, but the helmet steel is given specific characteristics when stamped (the plastic deformation is leaving a kind of stress in the material) which make it good at absorbing impacts (what a coincidence ;) ) Heating the pot slowly and making it cool slowly releases that stress, and make it slightly more ductile (you english speaking guys call it annealing) heating the pot (to fry eggs for example) and then putting it to cool quickly into water will again release the inner stress to build a different one, hence changing the helmet balistic-proofness (it's like a shitty uncontrolled light heat treatment). Are these changes enough to make the helmet useless against shrapnel and small caliber ? It depends of how much you heat your steel, for how long, and how much you like to hear the "ppppsssssshh" when you cool it in water. Probably not good because it's not to the maker's specs anymore, but isn't enough to make it really brittle or useless Oh i'm an aeronautical metallurgy Engineer btw, so my source is literally : dude trust me

be scared of vietnam

The nylon switch supposedly increased its ballistic resistance by roughly 15% I think, the simple history video on it talked about it.

well the ballistic nylon liner gave some extra protection, not meant to be weared as a stand alone helmet, but in the video it pancaked the 9mm and 45 acp

they aren't his grandparents belongings, if you believed this dude you'd think he was shooting a helmet used during the crucifixion of Christ, which of course his grandfather wore

the .22lr would not punched through the m1 helmet, but a .22 tcm would easily punch through

Ok

It's just a joke on the channel. His grandpa also brought back an ak from ww2

its a running gag

Check out Paul Harrell's video.

@@miriammariarojaslopez1276 it was an desert eagle

The Mitchell pattern was reversible

esta hecho de nylon balistico comprimido con resina, al menos los gorros duros (liners) de la era de Vietnam

Wow thanks did know that I thought it was just for camo

The cevlar looking part is fiberglass