>stahlhelm >good pick one

>>2114341
Check this out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKvX8_nbD-Y&t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdqOhqSu7o0&t

Wait, aren't those model B helmets those goofy looking things they wore in East Germany?

>>2114341
Helmets aren't meant to stop bullets.

>>2114447
>misses the "and fragments" parts

They are meant to stop shrapnel. And being able to stop the odd bullet is nice too.

>>2114443
Yep, they were developed as prototypes in Nazi Germany but never saw service until someone dug them out in the 50s for East German Army.

>>2114461
That's pretty cool. Now I know two icons of the cold war were developed in Nazi Germany (the CETME/G3 was based on the prototype designs of the STG-45 as I recall).

Also the FAL was based on the SVT's action, but it was developed in post-war Belgium and Soviet Russia is most certainly not Nazi Germany.

>>2114341
Still the best helmet of WWII

>>2114470
Not only that, but the CETME was developed by the very same people who worked on the STG-44.

>>2114341
If they weren't doing something right, they wouldn't be the basis for countless modern helmets today

>>2114488
Do you have even a single fact to back that up?

>>2114488

But those aren't steel, so there's no weak points from stamping.

>>2114430

Can't watch jewtube at work, what is?

File: b4f20fee4dc35b5343dd1d71f86ca2ce.jpg (143KB, 736x1105px) Image search: [Google]

143KB, 736x1105px

>>2114443
>goofy

>>2114461

They saw troop testing apparently, and apparently in Berlin.

>>2114690
Yep. They''re pretty goofy looking. They wind up so high on the head and have such a shape that they give them silhouette of some manner of mushroom person.

Their AK furniture was cool as tits though.

>>2114341
a e s t h e t i c

>>2114859
s t r i c h t a r n

>>2114341
The Stahlhelm is the most aesthetic helmet ever invented.

>>2114859
>Yep. They''re pretty goofy looking. They wind up so high on the head and have such a shape that they give them silhouette of some manner of mushroom person.
Or a literal dickhead.

>>2114341
Wehraboos blown the fuck out!
To think you faggots MOCKED me for saying the Brodie helmet was a perfectly fine design, and that the "increased side protection" offered by the stahlhelm was of minimal value.

Well who's laughing now!

>>2115471
Shitposting aside, in retrospect it makes perfect sense that the relatively flat sides of the stahlhelm would be vulnerable to penetration compared to a similar thickness of steel with a sloped design.

>>2115471
>>2115482
I recall it was always the neck protection that people would harp on about for the stahlhelm.

>>2115471
Still us, because the Brodie was still shit. It's not like if you cut the sides off the Stahlhelm it would suddenly be a better design.

>>2115471
the stahlhelm might not be perfect but the brodie is just completely retarded

>>2114430
>I don't want to destroy a rare german helmet
>So I'll destroy an even rarer finnish one

File: pasgt_helmet_06.jpg27077d32-28b9-4860-9254-7984b3a6ff09Large.jpg (55KB, 600x600px) Image search: [Google]

55KB, 600x600px

>>2114341
>Is bad!
>Decades later, Western militaries STEAL HIS LOOKs the Stahlhelm.

File: WWI_prototype_helmets.jpg (217KB, 1000x808px) Image search: [Google]

217KB, 1000x808px

>>2117421
Technically not based on the Stahlhelm. They are very similar thought.

>>2117506
The one on the bottom left looks like the Soviet one in WWII

File: Durerhelmet.jpg (85KB, 600x434px) Image search: [Google]

85KB, 600x434px

>>2117421

if youre playing that game, the stahlhelm just ripped off the sallet

>>2114690
>"hans vat shall ve make our uniforms for ze army of ze socialist state?"
>"ss uniforms with different insignia"

File: NVA_Wehrmacht.jpg (52KB, 591x330px) Image search: [Google]

52KB, 591x330px

>>2118729

File: wachaufzug07.jpg (73KB, 800x607px) Image search: [Google]

73KB, 800x607px

>>2118729
.

File: vereidigung.jpg (55KB, 501x347px) Image search: [Google]

55KB, 501x347px

>>2118729

>>2117511
Early WWI.

What I do wonder is why a good number of states - including the US and USSR - went back to the basic pot design, having tried something else.

>>2118729
Heer, not SS though, buddy.

>>2115464

most helmets achieve this effect