Stahlhelm

>stahlhelm
>good

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

Helmets aren't meant to stop bullets.

>misses the "and fragments" parts

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

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.

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.

Still the best helmet of WWII

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

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

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

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

Can't watch jewtube at work, what is?

>goofy

They saw troop testing apparently, and apparently in Berlin.

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.

a e s t h e t i c

s t r i c h t a r n

The Stahlhelm is the most aesthetic helmet ever invented.

>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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

Heer, not SS though, buddy.

most helmets achieve this effect