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Digital Marine
05-19-2006, 01:34 PM
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/8944/p51900574bh.jpg
hi-res (http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/8944/p51900574bh.jpg)

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/9844/p51900596tz.jpg
hi-res (http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/9844/p51900596tz.jpg)

I've had this helmet for over 3 years, it's been sitting on my closet.

Anyone have any idea from which country this helmet is? and what type it is?

Thanks!:)
TallGuy
05-19-2006, 02:00 PM
It looks like the French F1 helmet, does it have a leather chin cup?
Digital Marine
05-19-2006, 02:01 PM
It looks like the French helmet, does it have a leather chin cup?

Correct!


The guy from which i bought it said that it was found on a British beach..
BadKarma26
05-19-2006, 02:52 PM
frantically discarded from a hasty retreat :)
Tracker 23A
05-19-2006, 04:02 PM
It is interesting that a French Military Police helmet would have the acronym "MP" on it instead of the french way of saying it "Police Militaire".
DanBarlow
05-19-2006, 04:44 PM
it is american
Digital Marine
05-19-2006, 05:02 PM
So... what is it now... American.. French... British?


It is interesting that a French Military Police helmet would have the acronym "MP" on it instead of the french way of saying it "Police Militaire".

Haha, i was thinking before i posted this thread

''It can't be French... surely they have to be different and probably have PM instead of MP'' :lol:
Hawkeye
05-19-2006, 05:12 PM
I say US as well
Digital Marine
05-19-2006, 05:26 PM
I say US as well

Why?

Doesn't the US always have M1 steel helmets ...?
TallGuy
05-19-2006, 10:44 PM
It's French, I have one myself. The old type has a round crown pad and snaps on the chin strap. If it's the new type, it has velcro on the chin strap and this kind of crown pad:

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5757/271b6ng.jpg
Frens
05-20-2006, 06:29 AM
I would agree. it's not american. french or belgian
Digital Marine
05-21-2006, 10:50 AM
It's French, I have one myself. The old type has a round crown pad and snaps on the chin strap. If it's the new type, it has velcro on the chin strap and this kind of crown pad:

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5757/271b6ng.jpg

Interesting, mine is a steel pot though but it has velcro on the chinstrap...

Thanks for the info:)
miguelencanarias
05-21-2006, 09:06 PM
It is the French M 78 F-1 (second version), issued in the 80s. It is the A-4 version of the experimental helmet M 1976 A-5. It is made by Dunois, RMC, FRANCK and G-I.A.T, using manganese steel, 1.2 mm thick.

While a decent helmet, it is infamous by how easy it gets dented. It was replaced by the F-2 Spectra after its poor performance during the former Jugoslavia deployment. In those days kevlar helmets were rapidly becoming a must in every modern military (the Spectra is not made of kevlar but of Specra Shield, a polietylene composite. But you get the idea).

By the way, its price per unit was 360 francs (approx. 55 euros). It weights 1,2 Kg.

What strikes me (and many others) most of this helmet is how much it resembles a Warsaw Pact helmet. Of course, that resemblance disappears as soon as you put the camo cover and the rubber border band on it.
Digital Marine
05-22-2006, 07:49 AM
Ooh, that was your 666th post!p-)

Thanks for the info!

You can see that mine is dented like hell as well:lol:
Lazy Lob
05-23-2006, 05:59 AM
It is the French M 78 F-1 (second version), issued in the 80s. It is the A-4 version of the experimental helmet M 1976 A-5. It is made by Dunois, RMC, FRANCK and G-I.A.T, using manganese steel, 1.2 mm thick.

While a decent helmet, it is infamous by how easy it gets dented. It was replaced by the F-2 Spectra after its poor performance during the former Jugoslavia deployment. In those days kevlar helmets were rapidly becoming a must in every modern military (the Spectra is not made of kevlar but of Specra Shield, a polietylene composite. But you get the idea).

By the way, its price per unit was 360 francs (approx. 55 euros). It weights 1,2 Kg.

What strikes me (and many others) most of this helmet is how much it resembles a Warsaw Pact helmet. Of course, that resemblance disappears as soon as you put the camo cover and the rubber border band on it.

This is the experimental A5

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/5941/a5a6dw.jpg

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/3208/a5b4se.jpg

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1041/a5c6aj.jpg

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/215/a5d7ra.jpg