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The Weirdest and Fiercest Helmets from the Age of Armored Combat
io9.gizmodo.com ^
Posted on 06/24/2016 6:20:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:20:17 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:23:32 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Excellent collection of helmet pictures, but they forgot two recent ones:
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:23:50 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
To: BenLurkin
I highly encourage everyone to scroll the pics
Amazing
Still miss GoetzvonBerlichingen
Wish he was still here...right up his alley
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:28:56 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(for Muslim wives "no" means anal)
To: BenLurkin
Wow, very cool! If I saw an enemy coming at me in one of those, I think I’d just fold...
The Horned Helmet does look pretty gay however.
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:38:01 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: BenLurkin
This one still screams cool:
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:40:41 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Vote for your guns!)
To: RandallFlagg
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:45:36 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
To: BenLurkin
Noticing the eye slits in all these helmets all I could think of was how the English archers at Agincourt dispatched the dismounted and mud trapped French knights. Those slits were just wide enough for a long bodkin to get past.
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:47:48 AM PDT
by
katana
To: Pollster1
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:54:07 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
To: BenLurkin
Thanks. Many are extraordinarily beautiful.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:55:55 AM PDT
by
Verbosus
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To: BenLurkin
Is Hillary Clinton in there? Her hair often looks like she’s wearing a helmet.
To: Celtic Conservative
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:56:23 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Vote for your guns!)
To: wardaddy
Amazing indeed....but the NY Metropolitan Museum’s armor exhibit hall was the best real display in the states. Lot of smallish guys back then.
Kinda of think that golden hair/beard helmet wasn’t really meant for fighting or public ceremonies....
Us non-aristocrats had to settle for chopped, channeled,and sectioned, high power hot rods in the fifties and sixties...ahhhh
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:56:45 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: BenLurkin
Wild. You can tell guys had money to spend on some of those.
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:58:40 AM PDT
by
Ketill Frostbeard
("Where you recognise evil, speak out against it, and give no truces to your enemies." ~ODIN~)
To: BenLurkin
The Frog-mouth helmet reminds me of the challenges faced by WWII pilots trying to land a Vought F4-U Corsair.
Nothing much below eye level is visible.
To: BenLurkin
This post/thread is wonderful... and one of the reasons I love FR!
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posted on
06/24/2016 7:08:04 AM PDT
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karnage
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/24/2016 7:11:15 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: BenLurkin
Thanks for posting. Amazing.
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posted on
06/24/2016 7:15:11 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: BenLurkin
By the end of WWII, the German soldiers were mostly wearing
flimsy cloth caps. The American boys were wearing hard
steel helmets. I guess Hitler had spent all the money for
the war on some tunnel or the other so he would have a
secure bunker for retreat purposes.
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posted on
06/24/2016 7:15:24 AM PDT
by
Twinkie
(Cowards die a thousand deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.)
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