Have you ever wondered how a level IIIA ballistic helmet that are used by our military and law enforcemnt personnel would hold up against a full magazine of 9mm hollow points? Posted on 11/18/2016 9:30:16 AM PST by w1n1
Have you ever wondered how a level IIIA ballistic helmet that are used by our military and law enforcemnt personnel would hold up against a full magazine of 9mm hollow points?
The helmet is resin composite design to be able to withstand a .44 magnum round, so a 9mm shouldn’t be a problem. But what if you were shooting the 9mm from an MP5 on full automatic? The folks from TwangnBang set out to see how it would do, they used a 9mm with hollow points. Here's the results.
The helmet gets pretty well torn up, but it does actually stop almost all of the bullets from passing all the way through the helmet material. You would probably get some extreme migraines from this. But with just one or two rounds from a 9mm? It looks like the ballistic helmet would indeed offer plenty of protection. See the video here.
How is this a useful test if the user ends up with a skull full of jelly?
Pulse Nightclub Terror Attack
better than a hole in your head.
Artillery and Mortars are the no. 1 killer in large (and some small) conficts. Ballistic helmets are great for mitigating shrapnel, well, at least until someone builds a better mousetrap. Armor always wins until someone makes a faster, more dense projectile/fragmentation.....and then back to the drawing boards for armor.
Not many 9mm in a firefight. How do they hold up to 7.62x39?
Would the helmet stop a rifle round? Or even a .357 round shot from a lever action carbine?
The vast majority of casualties in both world wars were from artillery, I believe.
Why hollow points? Wouldn’t a heavy, lead-cored fmj be much more of a threat to armor than a projectile designed to spread on impact with soft tissue.
CAPT McIlhenny's helmet and the sword he took from the Japanese soldier after he killed him on Guadalcanal.
“it does actually stop almost all of the bullets”
Oh, “almost all”? What a relief...
One hell of a strong sword strike to do that to a steel helmet. Too bad (for the japanese soldier) that he didn’t have the sense to not aim his strongest blow at the only armored part of the GIs uniform.
I know a guy who was testing ballistic helmets for the Army. He said making them withstand multiple rounds was easy, but still fatal as the shock internally goes right to the brain.
Which is why you put the crosshairs a fraction of an inch below the lower edge of the blue helmet.
Penetration test. 45acp vs 357 mag vs tt-33
It's only a minute and a half, all slow-mo.
I am seriously considering a tt-33 as my bush sidearm. See the video I posted above and let me know what you think.
Impressive
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