In contrast, the modern ACH has been shown to stop AK-47 rounds cold in actual combat situations. Anyone who talks about the "good ol' days" of helmets -- or anything, really -- likely isn't a ...

Schwarzkopf's helmet, a PASGT, represents "how technology and innovation work together in the field of ground-forces protection,” says Frank Blazich, Jr., the Smithsonian's curator of modern ...

In a new paper, researchers compare 100-year-old military helmet technology to what soldiers use today, and the results may surprise you.

July 1, 2015: Since 2000 combat helmet design has made enormous advances. The new helmets have increased protection (often against rifle bullets as employed by snipers) while becoming more comfortable ...

Combat helmets have always been made to protect against blunt objects, not blast waves. Despite improvements in helmet design, battlefield brain injuries continue. Study Finds Century-old Combat ...

That's because ever since the first modern combat helmet came out in 1915, these so-called "brain buckets" have been designed to protect heads not from invisible shock waves, but from shrapnel ...