Why didn't they just adopt high cuts?
>>61579414high cuts are for gay larpers
>>61579510this guy has a point I wear high cut and well, I'm gay and larping
>>61579414Well with FAST helmets it was a comm reason behind the design, the PASGT then ACH (and ECH) was all about fragmentation. So why not combine both? The new IHPS's it supposed to be level IV and has more room on the sides for comms while also providing that frag protection.
>>61579765its uncomfy as fuck to use comtacs with the IHPS, the rail system does not work well.t. currently issued the IHPS
>>61579414MID CUT CHADS WHERE YOU AT
>>61579809Got ya, in the Reserves and I make do with my ACH. I can fit my Sordins comfortably but its not exactly top class, especially sometimes with the straps while trying to put on or take off the helmet
The IHPS LOOKS like it can fit electronic earpro but it really can’t without being uncomfortable or impractical. I try to fit my Walker’s Razor and it barely fits when you take the pads off.>>61579765
>>61579414Every helmet built after the PASGT is ugly as sin, i wonder why cant they just smooth out the shapes so they dont look like they're poorly built.
>>61579936What’s a good midcut?
>>61579765Sadly IHPS sucks poo poo for earpro use even compared to the ACH. I have amps, they're not comfy under the IHPS, my unit (NG) was issued them because a lot of active duty units dumped theirs.
>>61579414>can't jump with itdead in the water
>>61580274Did they go back to the ACH, or what?
>>61579765Isn't the deformation performance pretty terrible? Not much point in stopping a rifle round if it caves your skull in anyway.
>>61580274>>61579809isn't the whole point of the IHPS was to integrate comms?
>>61581153>Makes helmet to integrate comms>Comms not built into helmetWhat did they mean by this?
>>61581153That was the point of the MICH helmet from 24 years ago.
>>61579414Because leaders make their decisions based off of numbers on a graph and these graphs don't show the injuries that result from people that start unbuckling their helmets and outright taking them off after wearing them for 36 hours straight when their comms have been being smashed into the sides of their heads the entire time. >>61579510t. sgm who hasn't fucked his wife in five years and thinks everyone should be as uncomfortable in full kit as his spouse is uncomfortable sleeping in the same bed as him. >>61581291Why not just use a system where the coms clip onto the helmet? Allowing dudes to flip them up when they are not using them ie. low cut
do all mid cut helmets suck ass with electronic earpro under them even if designed for it like mich/ach/ech?the only good ones for comms are high cut?are there any stats on the injuries from shrapnel for highcut vs midcut?
>>61579414ss190 simply by existing can punch through it like tissue paper.
>>61580274>because a lot of active duty units dumped theirsLmao, you think OCIE is decided on the unit level like that? Why would you even bother larping on the internet as some national guard dork? Go big and say you're a SEAL Delta Ranger or something.>>61579809>uncomfy as fuck to use comtacs with the IHPSIt's not that bad.
>>61582261https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/23/8470/pdfThis isn't really comparing lowcut helmets but if you look through the kind of testing they are doing you could see how a low cut helmet just isn't ever going to fly with any surgeon general.
>>61580562From what I was told, they're using ACHs with new liners instead for the time. Supposedly a lot of issues are being fixed with the new version of IHPS but I have no experience with that, my sample size with the IHPS is two (personally owned one and issued one) and it isn't great.>>61581153I think it's just overengineered and the geometry in the ear cup area is just wonky. Genuinely new production ACH cuts made by Gentex or something with ARC rails would have been better.
>>61582322pic related
>>61579510this. only airsoft fags and third worlders actually want high cuts. I loved my ACH.
>>61579414Any steel core round will zip through it cause 100% plastic fantastic dyneema ain't the perfect armor. 44 magnum we grant them -140 iq malus roll to.
>>61582346>GB and Rangers pretty much exclusively use high cuts kys
>>61582363Yeah, because they give a fuck about being comfortable, and when they adopted high cuts, the rest of the force still had fucking PASGTs in some units. The ACH, and especially the ECH, were unironically fine if fit correctly.
>>61580274AD units aren't "dumping their IHPS", lmfao. Fuck off retard.
Because High cuts don't protect from artillery
>>61582349>he doesn't knowAmerican helmets stop 7.62x54 steel core now
>>61579765>level 4Nah it's less protection than ECH's
>>61579510High cuts are for having comms in themI loved my ach but its not comfortable wearing peltors under
>>61582222>t. sgm who hasn't fucked his wife in five years and thinks everyone should be as uncomfortable in full kit as his spouse is uncomfortable sleeping in the same bed as him.What he said must have stung. Were you wearing your low-cut at the time you read his post?
>>61583190You retarded? They don't even come close to stopping regular old greentip, and most rifle rounds will either penetrate them or compromise the shell catastrophically.
