Why do the British always come up with shitty designs? Look at this helmet, no only it looks hideous...

Why do the British always come up with shitty designs? Look at this helmet, no only it looks hideous, it doesn't protect the head as well. And they used it up until the middle of WWII.

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Ease of manufacturing, mostly. And it protects better than nothing, which is what it replaced, unless you bought a French helmet which many officers did.

It was probably designed with falling debris and shrapnel in mind which is why you have that pointy out bit.

it really does look like a bad joke. totally fitting for the british army

Didn't really need temple protection while in the trenches, and they had soft armor for those at greater risk, like machine gunners.

The German M-56 was developed in 1942 by the Wehrmacht and intended to replace the stahlhelm, as it was not only easier to manufacture but exhibited better ballistic qualities. It was ultimately rejected by Hitler but eventually became the helmet of East Germany.

Oh right, so we're doing this from 'The Royal Ordnance 105mm L7 never existed' standpoint.
Gotcha!

Cost effective, reasonably effective at doing what it needed to do and your opinion on how it looks is meaningless. Pomp on the battlefield died precisely with the introduction of helmets over cloth caps.

>t.britbongs

>Didn't really need temple protection while in the trenches
They did though. Grenades love temples. Love.

>your opinion on how it looks is meaningless.
It's a shit design, hence virtually every modern helmet having a strong resemblance to the stahlhelm rather than the brodie.

Not protecting the side of the head or neck AT ALL is mediocre, and the state of British industry is literally the only excuse for the design even existing.

>Literally just a concaved steel sheet
wow what an intricate and complex design that truly offers optimal protection.

For real OP the French Adrien and German Stahlhem were miles better

Adrian
>Provides protection to entire head
>Visor and hugging neck piece both provide additional protection
>Ridge offers protection against heavy falling object
>dedigned to ricochet projectiles from all directions
>Only downside is it's heavier than the British steel plate and leaves the sides of the neck and chins relatively unprotected

Stahlhelm
>Excellent protection from all sides
>Thicc
>ventilator horns that double as mounting gears for an additional front plate that could be used in assaults
>Heavier than any allied helmet and obscures hearing

Both are still better alternatives than what amounts to distributing your soldiers hard hats barely suitable for a construction site, let alone a battlefield.

To prove my point here are countries outside of each Great Power's direct vassalage (ala dominions) that decided to go with the different main types in the interwar period:
>Stahlhelm
Finland
Spain
China
Bolivia
Argentina
Chile
El Salvador
Afghanistan
Ireland (till the UK bullied them into brodies in 1940)
Mexico
Portugal
Colombia


>Adrien
Yugoslavia
Romania
Greece
Peru
Japan
Mexico
Poland
Russia and USSR
Spain
Siam
USA
Belgium
Brazil
Italy
Eylstadt

>The meme plate
UK and colonies
USA
Portugal
Belgium

>They did though. Grenades love temples. Love.

The threat was mostly from artillery and mortars.

It's designed the same as the chapel-de-fer, which was also used to protect against missiles on a ballistic trajectory, in this case arrows. Just like how the stahlhelm was based off of the sallet.

Also Switzerland

That style of helmet is common for construction dudes who work outside.

God the French late war battle dress was so fucking aesthetic

>expecting britbongs to be good at anything not involving boats.
This is the same army that was reluctant to fight spear wielding natives face to face when they had machine guns.

Switzerland, Austria and Denmark each had their own Stahlhelm adaptations, but I'm only counting the countries that used the original type.

You need to consider that coverage isn't everything. The Adrian was arguably the least effective helmet of the war because it was designed without any ballistic testing. To produce them quickly, and because it required more operations in its production, the quality of the metal was sacrificed, especially the thinning in the crown;

>It is penetrated at about one half the blow which the English helmet is able to resist.

While the British helmet sacrifices better coverage for metal of higher ballistic quality and requires only one operation, preventing thinning of the metal.

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You're an actual fucking idiot if you believe that meme.

>implying

>haha this mspaint meme I made will really show 'em!

The fact that this comic disregards the other parts of Britain and British contributions and victories to the wars it lists just shows how much you faggots can only think in dumb generalized meme views.

>it doesn't protect the head as well
It's statistically just as effective as its French and German counterparts you illiterate dweeb.

kek

The helmet was designed for guys sitting in trenches with rocks and shrapnel falling on their heads.

It was perfectly adequate and any failings it had were basically inconsequential to the importance of the first task.

I've read that a major reason British troops liked it was because they would sharpen the edges and kill motherfuckers with it.

Arguing about these helmets is basically academic. If the Germans used the British helmet and the Brits the stahlhelm, the war would've still ended in the same result - a humiliating, devastating loss for Germany and a bankrupt British Empire.

cheap, easy to produce and effective against its primary threat, overhead fire from artillery

as for always producing shitty designs thats simply not true

The Adrian helm was thinner and lighter than the Brodie or stalhelm thought

>China
China used all types of helmets depending on who supplied the warlord.

t. dumbass

It's for protecting against shrapnel from above. They don't protect against bullets.

Even without talking about bullets, what about stuff projected upward from the ground by explosions
French and German helmets had neck protections against that while the British one didnt

>helmet jiggles around like you would expect of a bowl on the head with only a strap to secure it.
>leaves back of the head wide open to being shot.
>demoralizing to wear.
But it was easy to manufacture!

we wuz empire and shieeeeet

heads up op, thats an american 17 pattern.

can you people please just fuck off to /int/

you have a generalized, nationalist view of history based on arbitrary feelings and aren't here to discuss history at all

you're the actual cancer of this board

Btw, why did Americans keep copying yuro uniforms even after breaking free from Europe?

In the 1810s they copied the shakos (the British shako which was by far far the worst looking one), in Civil War era they copied the French zouave uniforms, in WW1 they copied Brits.....why so unoriginal?

>"Looks hideous"
They should have had Gucci designing their military uniforms.

>"Used it up until the middle of WWII"
They used it until the end of the war. Plus America also used a similar designed helmet for nearly as long.

Calm down, britbong. Calm down. It was just a joke. Don't get so worked up that your stiff upper lip moves.

>british primarily fought in trenches
>trenches
>stuff projecting upwards
>trenches

j u s t f u c k m y b r a i n u p f a m

t. dont understand WW1

>I was just pretending to be retarded