Helmet Ballistic Test: Austrian M75 Steel Helmet (M1 Clone)
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
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I’ve been wanting to see this particular helmet be tested for a while now. Thanks a lot!!
As I'm sure others will say, when it comes to metal, velocity is king. People get tired of hearing it, I think they want a more 'mystical' or complex reason, but speed really is it for the most part. Proper 9mm NATO is no slouch at all, it's at least as fast as the normal 115gr with more weight on top of it. Tokarev is of course just dummy fast in a narrow round, and so is .357. I was surprised that .45 didn't penetrate, but then remembered that it's generally a pretty slow round. Super interesting test, thanks for your time and effort and merch sacrifice to do it!
Glad you did another helmet ballistic test, I missed these videos.
I bought a couple of these off of you years back during a sale. I'm glad to see a pretty good performance here!
M-75(Stahlhelm 1) replaced M-58(Stahlhelm 2) in early 70’s. The liner suspension was changed to be german stahlhelm style and chinstrap buckle was changed as well. Early M-75 had grey chinstrap canvas and then was changed to more OD like color. Also early M75 had sand texture(very similar to post WW2 US helmets texture, this is very uncommon for Euroclones) and federklammern(little metal pieces welded near bales). This pieces were designed to prevent liner to fall off from the shell. Though this feature was soon discontinued for some reason and shells that have it are pretty rare to find. As far as i know Ulbricht’s Witwe(Austrian helmet manufacturer) produced shells for Norway M-58, Netherlands M-53(late period), Denmark M-48(late)
P.S. There also was small contract with Schuberth Werke in 1985(5000 helmets). Austrian shells were painted and supplied with chinstraps(German M-60 chinstrap with 1 buckle) and also they had german made M75 liners. Please note that Shuberth didn’t make any steel shells for that contract, they all were supplied from Austria, though they had markings like they were fully produced in Germany
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Interesting, excellent test, good job guys!
It looks like this Austrian M1 style steel helmet fared better than the West German BW copy of the M1 helmet.
At minuet 3.33 with the 380 bullet's force impact, actually made that part of the helmet look kind of like a Stahlhelm.
It was surprising to see that the TT33's 762x25 did not acheive double penetration in the Austrian helmet.
Overall, that Austrian M1 clone performed the best that I've seen of all of the M1 helmet clones against the pistol bullets.
I don’t know why, but these videos sure are interesting.
Thank you so much for another educational ballistic test! I have watched all your ballistic videos in the past and I found them very interesting and educational. I am hoping to see you guys testing a Chinese GK80 some time soon. As a collector from China, I have only seen one video on UA-cam testing it but that was a GK80 A helmet which was made in the 90s and it was made of a completely different type of steel than the early version (the early version was made of a very scarce steel, called 232 bulletproof steel). I have an experimental version at home and its not in very good conditon. Maybe we can arrange something for a possible ballistic test on it?
Those helmets are no longer used by the austrian military, as my brother was in his military service (about 20 years ago), those helmets got replaced (rotated out of order) against (at that time) modern kevlar/aramid-composite helmets. He started with one of those steel ones, but ended his service with a modern kevlar/aramid one.
(and yes, the first thing as they got the helmets was that they got told it is not for stopping bullets directly, but to stop shrapnell from explosions and ricochet rounds from walls)
Man I misses the helmet tests.
Sidenote Ive seen tests of the Hungarian m70 but not the m90. Have you done one?
Not yet. It's on the list if I can grab another one, which is likely.
9mm is typically much faster than .45 ACP. Somewhere around 1000+fps vs. 850fps. Smaller diameter, faster velocity = better penetration in most cases.
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hmmm nice helmet
Have you seen any literature or videos on how an advanced combat helmet lightweight is constructed? Not the marine corps version but the ones that were rolled out around 2015 as a competitor of the IHPS, mine is an armor source AS505 army surplus specifically . I found one army article that said it’s a mix of PE and aramid and they were calling it the ACH GEN 2, supposedly had better protection/less deformation against pistol rounds and low velocity rifle rounds vs the “legacy” ach as they referred to it. It’s also .25-.50 lb lighter than a standard Ach
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The 9mm NATO is required to shoot through 5, 1mm mild steel plates. Which is their test analog for an FRG Helmet. Something the 45 ACP could never do.
9mm NATO varies wildly from country to country. You will encounter 112 to 130 grain FMJ bullets and velocities ranging from 1150fps to 1300fps. Sometimes more.
Oh cool a helmet i happen to have one of. It took me a year to figure out what it was.
If I sent a helmet to you would you shoot it ?
Eventually. What model?