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Zerodivider
04-30-2006, 04:14 PM
Does anybody know this one?

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1823/4e34xh.jpg
James
04-30-2006, 04:42 PM
It's a Helmet, General Use, (Mark 7).

Seriously though, (and I'm not positive) it looks like the kind of helmet SEALs wore in the pre MICH era. That's something I heard, not something I witnessed with my own eyes.
Zerodivider
04-30-2006, 04:56 PM
It's a Helmet, General Use, (Mark 7).


I was kinda waiting for that ;) Someone suggested to me that these were produced by Gentex at some point, but I couldn't find any further info...
Anthony91
04-30-2006, 05:13 PM
It's a Helmet, General Use, (Mark 7).

Seriously though, (and I'm not positive) it looks like the kind of helmet SEALs wore in the pre MICH era. That's something I heard, not something I witnessed with my own eyes.

Yeah I kinda agree with you there. Or it could of been a prototype PASGT helmet?
dave81
04-30-2006, 05:27 PM
Ask rokdoc. He works in Natick (the US Army's research & development lab for equipment and gear), he'll probably know.
TallGuy
04-30-2006, 05:40 PM
This helmet is used by the Navy, it's basically a kevlar hard hat. The liner looks like a typical hard hat liner, you twist the knob on the back to adjust it.
Desertpilot
04-30-2006, 06:00 PM
This is the helmet that replaced the old WWII talkers helmet on Destroyers and GMC's.

It's NOT a 'special ops' helmet. It is a ship-board safety helmet. Note the "hard-hat" style suspencion and notional chin strap.

The "special ops" helmet reffered to above is the MICH by MSA or the TBH II by Gentex.
James
04-30-2006, 06:16 PM
This is the helmet that replaced the old WWII talkers helmet on Destroyers and GMC's.


Those big Star Wars Imperial soldier looking helmets?
rokdoc
05-14-2006, 07:05 PM
This is the helmet that replaced the old WWII talkers helmet on Destroyers and GMC's.

It's NOT a 'special ops' helmet. It is a ship-board safety helmet. Note the "hard-hat" style suspencion and notional chin strap.

The "special ops" helmet reffered to above is the MICH by MSA or the TBH II by Gentex.


Question answered.
Zerodivider
05-14-2006, 07:08 PM
Excellent, thank you.
dave81
05-14-2006, 10:12 PM
Those big Star Wars Imperial soldier looking helmets?I like the Imperial ones better.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/organization/imperialgunner/img/movie_bg.jpg
Lazy Lob
05-15-2006, 11:54 AM
This is the helmet that replaced the old WWII talkers helmet on Destroyers and GMC's.

It's NOT a 'special ops' helmet. It is a ship-board safety helmet. Note the "hard-hat" style suspencion and notional chin strap.

The "special ops" helmet reffered to above is the MICH by MSA or the TBH II by Gentex.

I thought the Talker Mk2 was replaced by the Mk4 and Mk5 Talkers. These are very similar to the WWII Talker with big ears for the comms but made out of kevlar.

The Mk7 pictured above is a general use helmet for the US NAvy, especially for supply vesslels. I have one made by Gentex. The MK7 has no room for comms.

This is a pic of the new Talker I found on the web:

http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/6448/normaltalkerhelmet0027hj.jpg
Hawkeye
05-15-2006, 12:11 PM
These are used by the Belgian Navy as well (in the same function as explained above)