US Helmets and Covers from WW2 to Present Day | Collector's & History Corner 

Yeah that's what I was thinking. They aren't two M81 Woodland covers from different manufacturers, but rather an ERDL cover and a Woodland cover. They look almost identical but are ultimately quite different.

In the Marine Corps, since we couldn't spell to gooder... the one we referred to as "Ripstop" (which did not do what the name implies) and the other, "Elvis". Why "Elvis"? Because that thick, heat-casualty producing material had the HUGE pointed collars like an Elvis costume from the seventies.

In 1917 the Us government bought 400,000 British Mk 1 steel helmets.

Yes, but optics can be important.

Germans had the best looking military uniforms of all time in my opinion

Well technically you can see a bit of German Salad Helmet in it, nothing wrong with it,

@@Sean-gf5qm if your talking about Ww2/Ww1 there wasn't necessary items like dress boots or gloves. But, The Ww1 stormtroopers looked pretty badass.

so what I ask you. have the germans ever done for us. apart from the world's best microphones, cars, hugo boss stormtrooper uniforms, and oh.... great helmets.. what have they ever done for us ? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qc7HmhrgTuQ.html

Bocephus lucasfilm thought so too

its actually a very broad family of helmets. designed by a guy called "schwerd" with last name (roughly translates to: sword) up to the cold war these helmets were used by the germans, austrians, bulgarians, spanish, irish, turkish, polish, czechs, norwegians, danish, dutch, the soviets (only a handfull of those were ever made but they were used) , swedish, finnish, slovakians (using a bulgarian helmet), hungarians, and probably a few more. the helmet types differentiated between civilian and military styles, the civilian ones often easy to identfy by their distinct honeycomb style airvents at the sides, where the military ones usually have a single (one on each side) often reinforced venthole. the style of helmets very much excelled at what it wanted to do. protect against shrapnel and falling objects from all sides while making a small profile and not inhibiting breathing, hearing, and vision. which is why some of the civilian variants see service even to today, with some individual helmets having had 80 or more years of service to their name. the PAGST doesnt realy particularily resemble any one of them, but i think it could be argued that it certainly follows a very similar design philosophy. ultimately, if something works, why change it. and the schwerd pattern works exceptionally for beeing a over 100 year old design.

w h o d i s -_-

that 3 Desert Pattern cover of the MICH Helmet is before the ACU helmet cover was introduced in 2006 or 2007

James Ferraris he means that there is a face pattern on it

oh i thought-well nevermind then i guess

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Not really it just turned out like that but I think it was based off a baseball helmet

Cyrus Robinson lol no, look at the stahlhelm and compare it to Kevlar helmets

Casual Tryhard76 it wasn’t good at all, the metal was thin, M1 Garand and Carbine bullets could bust through it or shoot it off

bullet fragmentation not true at all

@@mr.epicness2037 Helmets aren't designed to stop bullets

T.E. Lawrence lol

Yeah

QWERTY are you joking

Because the helmet used in WW1 by the U.S. was developed by the British and used by both the British and the Americans and maybe some others to. These helmets and covers are American designed.

T.E. Lawrence Yknow, not like the title of the video says something about helmets and covers from ww2 onwards... but whatever.

Zetiger Tigeer stay safe. I hope everything goes great for you.

shadow13kill Thanks, :D

thanks :)

Zetiger Tigeer I am about to get burnt by the so cal fires but I am watching this

Zetiger Tigeer so are u fine now ?

Geoffrey brown 11 he didn’t steal it he bought it

Wartime Productions the left of the "BDU" covers is actually erdl. He was probably in nam early and didn't know it existed, and it was really only used from 71- on

yeah i noticed it my most recent time watching this video and after purchasing an ERDL cover myself.

the LWH is almost exactly the same as the PASGT. also i dont get what they mean when they say there was not a good replacement they could of gone back to DCU

Brendan Loy stahlhelm was first designed in the First World War

The nazis did not come up with the stalhelm design

Austria and Turkey has the same helmet too

Nazi's*

Chris Butler RU-vid is flagging military history now?

Chris Butler are they really trying to censor this what's wrong with utube

But the pan helmet was british...

The US army also adopted it

Marxtube

M1?

Yeah, stored not in use anymore.

Yiasou! Before we came to the USA, my family served in the Greek Army for a multitude of generations. I guess it was either that or subsistence farming. Molon Labe!

CADPAT is pretty cool. MARPAT is super effective as well and I love how cadpat has mini maple leafs in it

I'm 31b brother

Are you out now

Adrian Langford as far as steel goes

Pros: covers the more area than most (adopted) WWII helmets. Cons: Different Sizes, which makes production and supply more complicated and expensive, and means there is less room for the shell to dent before it hits your head. Impedes Vision and hearing more. I haven't tried one on, but I imagine it would bump into your neck when prone, pushing the front forwards over you eyes, which was an issue with the M1, which wasn't as long in the back.

Cap Camouflage Pattern I actually, when you go prone, it isn't that of a problem. The Stahlhelm is quite comfortable.

Good to know, thanks. Still I sometimes see photos of Germans in both WW1 and WW2 wearing them backwards, but it's not unique to the stahlhelm, you can American soldiers doing it with the M1.

Cap Camouflage Pattern I By comfortable I mean I wore them a couple of minutes and not in a very long battle... Maybe some soldiers like it better backwards, but all by all the helmet is ok.

The Mikekid they’ll be one shot by the kar98k

Lol

Stealthinator139 the nets were also used to breakup he light reflecting off the helmet

Their* jesus how fucking hard can it be

they still do today..... when not fighting in a desert

On*

@@jonafap9938 Jesus*, you also forgot the period at the end. Don't correct people without using grammar yourself.

I remember it as Pennsylvania Sergeant

XD public service anoucement

Aidan Palkin he’s from the south

You must not be from the US

You beat me to it! I'd come to mention it. PASGT :) Personal Armor System Ground troops, He forgot to mention that the Vietnam era covers are Mitchell Pattern.

Wrong MARPAT came out in late 2000 CADPAT came out in late 2002.

@@huntermanning9654 wrong. Google it again.

@@Masta_E I did Google here's what I got MARPAT was designed and created by the USMC in 2000 and was put in service late 2001 early 2002 and has seen service since. CADPAT piggy back camo off MARPAT and designed in 2002 and issued late 2002 to present so yeah MARPAT was first and copied by Canadians.

@@huntermanning9654 nope cadpat was first, marines just changed the color scheme and the canadians actually helped with the development of marpat, that's why so many other countries use what looks to be marpat but actually is cadpat.

@@thegalapagos57 okay keep believing that if you want to a simple Google search will tell you different also your wrong the us army actually developed the first form of Marpat in the late 90s consisting of charcoal gray and white and was then piggybacked by the Marines then the Canadians.

Wasn't a thing. Before there were enough PAGST helmets, some covers did get put on M1s. Wasn't really designed to fit the helmet though. If you cut a few extra slits for the chin straps it fits pretty well.

They weren't used by the US, but they do exist, I have seen pictures of an Iraqi wearing one, and I believe I've seen some other nations, but can't remember which.

He also forgot the Spetsnaz helm

@@twizplays608 The Spetsnaz aren't american.

It did exist, but ut was used by foreign countries on M1 helmet clones. The US never had those covers for their m1 helmets. Like the other commenter said some chocolate chip covers were put on m1 helmets, but those were made for the pasgt.

Indeed

The blue makes it easier to cite in and shoot they ass since the United Nations peacekeepers are useless they always getting kidnapped

sergeant5027 if you watched the start of the video he admitted he doesn't know much

wow wiki look what you done

SaturnIV4 it also said they were “professionals” at the beginning of the video.

@Shadow13Kill Wrong, at 0:14 it says "Are not conducted by professional historians."

I don´t think so. I was wearing both these helmets as a machinegunner and PASGT was just better. Maybe I had the wrong size of the MICH tho...

ACU was cancer

MaceGaming53 yes. Yes it was.

It looks cool as fuck though

what ACU?

MaceGaming53 Theres only one ACU. The old woodland was called BDU. ACU is the grey digital.

It truly is man.

It was the best design tbh

@roflmao who cares it’s just a helmet there isn’t any swastika on it

True

I'm pretty sure they are commercially made knock-off covers, as far as I know there are no AOR PASGT covers.

Really? For the PASGT? Got any picture?

Cool, thanks, very interesting.

I think it's still marpat. You can stare at pictures side by side and marpat is a little creamier looking.

Original MARPAT fabric has a small EGA printed into the pattern. If you look closely, these don't have that. Also, the (reversible) LWH cover I have has a large EGA on the front, but not sure if the earlier non-reversibles had this as well.

allgoo19 Considering steel helmets were meant to stop shrapnel not bullets Kevlar is much better protection wise but only most handgun rounds

@@Bernesemtdog Steel helmets usually stop 9x19s and .45 ACP at close range.

Robert Reynald nice PUBG

Yeah PUBG squad

Robertus Reynaldi yeah too bad theres no lv3 because of airdrop

Fortnite is better!

@@tahabashir3779 how?

True. It really did have the best helm design, and the armies use of it shows even to this day.

British helmet, these are american made helmets

@@ethanman4461 doughboy was American copy of British helmet

wow you know so much Wikipedia

Joseph Stalin me too king

Me too comrade

I have the m51 1952 with the same old woodland cover

No if you are talking about the ucp acu digital camo it was issued to sailors and airmen attached to army units but the Army only used it

They are the best looking helms around