New research suggests helmets used in World War I protected soldiers against overhead artillery blasts just as well as modern helmets—and one, the French Adrian helmet, actually performed better. When ...
Your great-grandfather's World War I helmet that's stuffed in the back of the closet could be just as effective at preventing brain injury from some blasts as a modern-day military helmet, a recently ...
The Army has pushed back on a study purporting to show that World War I "tinpot" helmets were just as good or, in some cases, better than the service's current Advanced Combat Helmet in mitigating the ...
From left, French soldiers during WW1 in 1916, a US soldier in Afghanistan in 2014, and American soldiers during WW1. Getty Images Scientists from Duke University have revealed that World War I ...
Scientists from Duke University have revealed that World War I helmets perform remarkably well against shock waves compared to their modern high-tech counterparts. One helmet, the French Adrian design ...
A 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper fastens their helmet before taking part in fall exercises at Fort Bragg, N.C., Aug. 19, 2019. (Senior Airman Cody R. Miller/Air Force) Any helmet is still better ...
A forgotten Eastern Front camp begins to give up its secrets as relic hunters uncover a remarkable trail of late-war German ...
A World War I French helmet offers better protection against overhead blasts than at least one modern U.S. Army helmet, researchers from Duke University found. A team of biomedical engineers compared ...
A helmet used by French soldiers in World War I provided better protection from overhead blasts than a modern American model, according to a US university study. Biomedical engineers from North ...
Upon entering World War 1 in 1917, the U.S. lacked its own standardized steel helmet for infantry in Europe, so troops were initially equipped with British- or French-pattern helmets to begin with.
But a 2014 review conducted by a committee created by the National Academies' National Research Council notes that while the Kevlar-based ACH helmet is a significant evolution from its WWI ...
DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers from Duke University have demonstrated that, despite significant advancements in protection from ballistics and blunt impacts, modern military helmets are no ...