how important are helmets?

Depends. That kenya dude didn't need comms as he was alone and wasn't facing explosives, so it didn't matter. Most people should have a helmet though.

>>63845400 (OP)
Depends on the situation
>For police work?
Not really important
>For sexo
The helmet stays on

They are a strong seven out of ten on the scale of importance.

Motorcycle helmets with mirrored visors look badass as all hell, unfortunatly they aren't practical to wear 24/7

>>63845400 (OP)
Necessary outside of a few select situations. Even something like a non-ballistic bump helmet is helpful because there's a million and a half things that will give you a concussion in a fight

>>63845604
Wearing goggles with mirrored visors is also bad ass as hell

>>63845400 (OP)
Probably more important than body armor
But all that shit sucks to wear for an extended time

>>63845400 (OP)
Worse than nothing.
During WW1, the British army discovered that the amount of head injuries skyrocketed after they started issuing steel helmets to everyone.

Very important when there's explosives around. A flying chunk of rock or shrapnel that a helmet would stop could easily kill you if your head is bare.
Modern helmets can stop or deflect bullets in the right circumstances but that's not their intended purpose.

>>63845400 (OP) (OP)
Worse than nothing.
During WW1, the British army discovered that the amount of head injuries skyrocketed after they started issuing steel helmets to everyone.

>>63845736
Anon, doing a little trolling isn't big or clever

>>63845744
Only three words in that sentence are false

>>63845759
>sentence
post*

>>63845732
Didn't even need to stop shrapnel, a helmet could often turn a fatal hit into a survivable wound. This actually led to head injuries rising after helmets were introduced despite fatalities dropping.

>>63845400 (OP)
>>63845736
indeed why even wear gear or even cloth? I think if we all back to feral naked gun swinging would be so much better
OP you can even store ammo up ur butt as well

>>63845400 (OP)
>getting shelled without overhead cover
very
>poking you head above a trench
pretty
>running through ruined buildings
slightly
>attacking enemy positions
not very

>>63845400 (OP)
It's the one piece of gear that has been used throughout the ages even when no other gear was had. If you have nothing else, you should at least have a helmet

>>63845736
And what about the amount of fatal head trauma

ppe and tacticool shit in general is a meme

Yes.

>>63845963
If you were creating an official militia for a fantasy setting would the sensible uniform for them just be a helmet and maybe some sort of scarf wrapped around their arm or body?

I've NEVER used a helmet in my life, and I'm totally fiaDPjwaIdpuDURPYDUMPYDURRRRRHURRR

>>63846471
Depends on the budget, but armor should be in the following priority order

>head
>chest
>arms
>legs
>hands and feet

>>63845991
thats the meme hes referring to. confirmation bias just like the "where should we armor our ww2 airplanes" story.

>>63845400 (OP)
They have been fundamentally the most important piece of armor for the entirety of human history

>>63845732
This gets parroted so much but 'modern' helmets (as in for several decades now) have been designed with the purpose of stopping bullets very much in mind, and they are perfectly capable of catching intermediate rounds quite easily

>>63847480
It's moot because you get crippling/fatal neck/brain injury from the kinetic energy of 9mm and above.

>>63846462
Funnily enough, the reason the 6b47s deform so much is because they don't use epoxy between layers of aramid, unlike most ballistic helmets. So yeah, it's light and can float, but deformation is way worse.

>>63845426
>wasn't facing explosives
Been a while, but I thought I remembered hearing him recount the story and he claimed they were chucking a lot of hand grenades.

>>63848242
Several American soldiers in GWOT survived long-range (once the velocity had decayed somewhat) PKM and AKM hits to the helmet.

Those helmets were UHMWPE. Effectively NIJ III though not designed specially for it contra >>63847480 .
.

>>63847447
You can never be too sure these days

>>63845400 (OP)
ideally no
in reality yes

>>63845400 (OP)

>>63848296
Why did the Russian MoD want a helmet that was buoyant, anyway? I can't see it saving a soldier from drowning if he's still wearing the rest of his kit.

>>63845426
He also wasn't planning on being there. If he was, he might have brought a helmet

>>63846825
No.
Overcoat < that's the uniform that makes them... uniform
Boots < peasants being peasants, suppling them with decent boots might actually get a decent number of them to sign up
Helmet < most important bit of PPE but not the most important part of the uniform

my mama put me in a helmet when I was 8 and I've mostly been wearing one since

Anyone have the webm of a large piece of metal landing on a soldier's head in Afghanistan? I think it was shrapnel from a IED or something.

>>63848354
>>63848242
>Outside & inside views of 7.62mm impacts on “MICH” helmets worn by ODA 563 soldiers. Both men survived with minor concussions.
https://arsof-history.org/articles/v4n2_fog_of_war_page_1.html

>>63850142
There's a video about that battle on youtube. It was fucking insane.

>>63846825
head before chest is clearly retarded and something no one or agency does

>>63845400 (OP)
Very