Night Vision Mounts CAN STOP Rifle Hits 

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Proposal for a new solution to help with ballistic rating, attach night vision mounts all around the helmet surface, I call it the "cope cap"

Really makes you think why Ops-Core hasn't made a helmet out of NVG mounts yet.

US Army in Ramadi 2006 - they made us wear croch, nape, throat, neck protectors, side sapi, eye pro, sometimes shoulder armor. Literally ever piece of armor we could get our hands on. Walking around like space marines. Sharpel and mortar attacks were very very common we had to wear full armor anytime we were outside even on the FOB - even going to the gym or dfac or store.

Thanks for the test! Gonna cover my helmet in NV mounts like it's ERA.

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My dad got shot on his NVG shroud during his time in the sandbox and was left only with a bad headache. Like Babin said though, one inch or a different angle and he wouldn't be here today.

This touches on a lot of MBT armor developments during the days of the first APFSDS darts being common, placing a harder more brittle layer or layers in front of traditional RHA helps to shatter or break up the tip of the projectile making subsequent regular armor layers significantly more effective. This is seen in modern MBT armor arrays with ceramic/titanium/tungsten rod/ball/mesh inserts layered between RHA layers. Much like in those developments, in the helmet development world you fight against the tradeoffs of increased size and weight such benefits offer.

Considering how light aluminum is, do you think an aluminum outer layer + polyethylene inner layer could be an effective modern helmet design?

They CAN stop some hits which is awesome! Edit -this was probably an expensive project.

Yup! Great info. I didn't think the aluminum mount would work so well Almost like the NV mount functions as a strikeface.

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Bravo! Good Show! Excellent data points!

Do the thug shaker Shake till those classified documents fall out your back pocket 😩

My dad took a 7.62x39 to the head on a swat call from pretty close range a few years ago. He's retiring soon. Thanks safariland.

Well that’s one expensive potential life saver right there. RIP the nods though if that does happen😔

Thank you once again for your awesome content.

Nice use of the WARNO soundtrack. Absolute banger!

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Chris VanSant also mentionned a similar story of an operator getting shot right in his mount and he survived. great video

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This is genuinly interesting, great video Oxide

Now I know something I never could have possibly dreamed up. Bravo sir.

Oh shoot, Do give us a little tour on your shooted-up collection of helmets and armour pieces someday

T-34 drivers hatch moment

Imagine being associated with one of the biggest American blunders in history

I kinda wonder what a thin, spaced aluminum dome would do for an ach. It wouldn’t add much weight and given these tests, might actually make a difference

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Words can't describe how jealous I am of that sick Tig helmet

I feel totally vindicated in my choice to continue to run an ACH I got from a coast guard buddy and a Norotos mount.

Haven't finished watching yet, but damn this is gonna be informative.

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Off topic, but I love the USMC Lightweight Helmet. Idk why, it's prolly cause it's just a modern PASGT.

That M64 build is literally beautiful, I've thought about basing a build off of yours since I saw it in that MRE review you did a while back

So mr.Oxide about those documents

I wonder if a screw on mount like the norotos presents vulnerabilities in the screw holes that the other mount wouldnt have. Kinda like the rail mounts on the ech.

whos here after the doc leaks?

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Nice video. I wonder what's your thought on mordern steel helmet? They seem to be able to stop 3A rounds at much smaller deformation while weighting about the same as aramid helmets.

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Wow! Great results.

It makes sense considering that armour arrays on tanks have been Metal/Non-metal composite arrays for decades at this point. As always the question is weight and it'd be interesting to see what combination of materials at a given thickness works. I could also see it being a thing that there is a reinforced band around the middle and lower with the top of the head left to Kevlar, kind of like those funky Indian turban-helmets. Or perhaps a "two cupped hands" arrangement where the front and sides are up-armoured and the top and back is left to Kevlar. I wonder if you could go Metal/Rubber/Metal/Kevlar.

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3:28 the best rotor

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I will now be investing in NVG mounts for all of my helmets despite not owning any NVGs

The sweet music from warno👌

Thats one of the sexiest yugo ak's , nice purchase

Please repost “i will die for my talented friends” that shit was a banger

So What helmet do you recommend?

Have you ever done a video on drop-testing armor?

Here to ask a question about the m70, did you reweld or are you using a tortort? Cheers!

I should be sleeping but now i have to wait another 8 minutes

Makes me feel better about my solid block of mid 2000s aluminum known as a Wilcox G05

Any chance you'd consider adding cope cages to helmets and shooting them with various rifle rounds? An aluminum cage over helmet + thin hardened steel slats or wedges designed to split incoming rounds into lower velocity and lower weight shrapnel. The deflection angles could be calculated using the most likely impacts from a 90° angle to the strike face. So, basically a helmet covered in hardened steel blades arranged horizontally. Much like the SLAAP plate you've already tested, but not to catch the rounds and instead to cut the rounds into more smaller, more manageable pieces.

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basically the mount acts like a spaced armor before hitting the main armor (the helmet)

I've noticed between this and the Russian aramid/metal layered helmets that this metal/soft armour mox seems to consistently improve performance vs a lot of pure metal or pure kevlar/uhwmpe helmets. Do you think there's some merit to adding say a thin steel outer layer over a soft armour helmets (basically replicating the mounts effect)?

Would you be able to test the Adept "NovaSteel" helmets? Can't find much testing on them on youtube. I think my previous comment was autodeleted because of a link so I'm commenting again without the link to the helmet.

Yeah I'm placing a triangle plate on my helmet, that's the difference between a cracked egg and a rattled dude

Nice TIG-77, from West-German service? I got a similar one with a similar ballistic visor as yours as well as a more regular tig visor with a strange curve to it.

Need to peep the leak some day

Anyone got a link to that jacko podcast episode?

Very good information

Implementing the WARNO music? Good choice

ive seen a video on some dude's channel where he makes a working goofy ricochet body armor. why not make a useable helmet with the same concept?

Do you happen to need any M855A1 or M80A1? I've got a small amount of each in Alabama, if you were looking at testing some modern US combat rounds.

I've gotta slap some aluminum on my kevlar now

Does the game have a USPS LLV option? I can’t help but daydream while delivering my mail route about armoring my vehicle (would require a LOT of ballistic glass) and mounting a Ma Deuce and/or MK19 to the roof. Never considered rotor blades though 😂

So light weight helmet up armor is nvg mounts? Sweet

Did you considered making same template for Video previews ?

are you ever gonna do a video on your M64

Do you think the fact the mounts are looser then actual stiff metal/Kevlar around the helmet helps dissipate the energy?

So that's where my rhino mount disappeared to last field op. I already signed the FLIPL for that shit, too.

Do you think a wilcox g24 mount could have the potential to stop a direct headshot as well? I don’t know what the material difference is between the g24 and say a rhino mount as an example.

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It also helps that the helmet is allowed to travel after it’s been hit.

man the LWH certainly looked cool but would constantly sag forward in the prone.

Yooo... WARNO soundtrack? Nice taste! Do you also play the game?

Velocity systems ULV plate test, maybe?

Aren't these shrouds titanium?

May I just say, I feel bad for Oxides wallet ( yes ik the helmets were donated but still, dude shoots expensive equipment to show results )

0:43 There's a flaw in your logic. While you're right about the area on the helmet that took the hit would have missed the head if he wasn't wearing a helmet... However the flaw is because they were wearing a helmet the shooter has no way of knowing where the target's head is under the helmet. Meaning without the helmet the shooter knows where the target's head begins and ends, resulting in BOOM headshot. So without the helmet anyone that took a helmet strike on the crown or side then ummm, well at least they could cosplay as JFK.

That TIG visor is soooooooooooo longgggggg

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Cool Altyn visor

Regardless of a it being a hipster gun that's a beautiful yugo

Very interesting video

That rifle is pretty

Hear me out, a steel shell cover and a Kevlar helmet

Tanks have active armor for ages, helmets should do to.

I saw one in Afghanistan in 2010 that penetrated a dudes helmet and slowed enough to dig out a chunk of his skull. He repeats himself a lot now.

Russians vindicated with their "clown helmet" Koplak 20's Westerners on suicide watch

6:55 That picture make me uneasy

Thoughts and prayers going out to this absolute madlad

Very interesting topic and video. Once i've read an information, that this is possible only with intermediate cartridges or heavy bullet subsonic derivatives of those, but full power rifle rounds, like 54R, even if the helmet will stop the bullet, the kinetic energy of it will, most likely, snap a neck. Same whiplash effect, that killed many racing drivers before HANS era.

as we speak I am bolting 12 nvg shrouds to my helmet.