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The Weirdest and Fiercest Helmets from the Age of Armored Combat
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Posted on 06/24/2016 6:20:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 06/24/2016 6:20:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv

Of possible interest


2 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.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Excellent collection of helmet pictures, but they forgot two recent ones:


3 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)
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To: BenLurkin

I highly encourage everyone to scroll the pics

Amazing

Still miss GoetzvonBerlichingen

Wish he was still here...right up his alley


4 posted on 06/24/2016 6:28:56 AM PDT by wardaddy (for Muslim wives "no" means anal)
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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.


5 posted on 06/24/2016 6:38:01 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: BenLurkin
This one still screams cool:

6 posted on 06/24/2016 6:40:41 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: RandallFlagg

Mandalorian?

CC


7 posted on 06/24/2016 6:45:36 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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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.


8 posted on 06/24/2016 6:47:48 AM PDT by katana
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To: Pollster1

9 posted on 06/24/2016 6:54:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks. Many are extraordinarily beautiful.


10 posted on 06/24/2016 6:54:29 AM PDT by all the best
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To: BenLurkin

Bookmark


11 posted on 06/24/2016 6:55:55 AM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: BenLurkin

Is Hillary Clinton in there? Her hair often looks like she’s wearing a helmet.


12 posted on 06/24/2016 6:56:09 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Celtic Conservative

It was a project done by Heckler and Koch and a few other companies a couple of months ago.
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/01/18/ballistic-mandalorian-armor/


13 posted on 06/24/2016 6:56:23 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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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


14 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)
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To: BenLurkin

Wild. You can tell guys had money to spend on some of those.


15 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~)
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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.
16 posted on 06/24/2016 7:07:13 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackOlivesMatter)
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To: BenLurkin

This post/thread is wonderful... and one of the reasons I love FR!


17 posted on 06/24/2016 7:08:04 AM PDT by karnage
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18 posted on 06/24/2016 7:11:15 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks for posting. Amazing.


19 posted on 06/24/2016 7:15:11 AM PDT by PGalt
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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.


20 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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