Monday, February 20, 2012

AFH1 Flight Helmet

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The AFH-1 Flyers Helmet was developed by Natick Labs in response to the need for a helmet that offered greater ballistic protection than the APH-5. The AFH-1 was adopted for Army use in 1965 and standardized as MIL-H-43388 in February 1966. Initially it was only produced in small and medium sizes, but 7000 large sized helmets were procured by Natick and shipped to Vietnam in August 1968.


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

All the helmets pictured there are actually APH-5 helmets, not the AFH-1