The U.S. Army is planning to deploy a combat helmet that is 22 percent lighter than the current helmet used by soldiers. Announced on Monday, the Advanced Combat Helmet (ACH) Generation II is said to ...

A U.S. Army helmet equipped with pads engineered by Vicis.. Courtesy Vicis More than 100 NFL players and thousands of high schoolers now wear a football helmet created by Vicis, a Seattle startup that ...

The FAST XP Helmet System features a NIJ IIIA and HG2-certified ballistic shell in high-cut and mid-cut options.

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division received the Army’s newest helmet today, the first combat helmet capable of withstanding small arms fire without added protection. The Next Generation ...

More than 300,000 service members have returned home with a traumatic brain injury since 9/11. Though the Pentagon says most cases are considered mild, in some cases those injuries have led to the ...

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WASHINGTON (Army News Service, May 17, 2010) -- The Army recall of 44,000 Advanced Combat Helmets that were issued to Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is the result of a Department of Justice ...

In late September, the Army secretly fielded a small number of helmets that offer increased protection against high-performance sniper rounds. Army equipment officials "quietly fielded" 150 of these ...

Soldiers will soon be wearing a helmet that's up to 24 percent lighter than the current 15-year-old model, according to the Army. The Advanced Combat Helmet Generation II looks the same as the legacy ...

In a new paper, researchers compare 100-year-old military helmet technology to what soldiers use today, and the results may surprise you. These researchers wanted to study how helmets endure primary ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Justice Department investigation into whether an Ohio-based military contractor took shortcuts in its production of military combat helmets has led to a massive Army recall. Army ...

PENTAGON (May 20, 2010) -- The Army is recalling 44,000 combat helmets made by ArmorSource and Rabintex. If you were issued one of these helmets, you must turn it in to the Central Issue Facility to ...