Helmets

The Next-Generation Integrated Head Protection System will purportedly protect soldiers from small-arms fire in a 40% lighter...

The Security Forces NextGen 2.0 Helmet features a "high-cut" shape that allows for better access to communications equipment.

Word got around that in certain situations, the M1 helmet might pull heads back and snap some necks.

It's part of a broader effort to provide better weapons and job-specific gear to security forces airmen.

A provision in the defense budget bill aims to make it easier to donate protective gear to the service members who wore it.

U.S. Army equipment officials said last week the service's new helmet system saved a soldier's life recently in Afghanistan.

The Army recently fielded a small number of helmets that offer increased protection against high-performance sniper rounds.

U.S. Army officials will soon begin fielding a new combat helmet designed to give soldiers 100 percent greater protection.

The bullet tore a large hole in the ballistic material, but the Enhanced Combat Helmet (ECH) stopped the round.

The Navy is close to fixing a bug in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter helmet that amounts to a dangerous hindrance for aviators.