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Today it is an incredibly "trendy" to compare different types of enemy weapons World: tanks, planes, guns, and even entire ships. And what about the comparison of things much more simple, but they are not equally important in every soldier's life? It's about a helmet-helmet. The answer to the question "Whose helmet is better?" Gave a special commission of the Main Quartermaster Directorate of the Red Army in 1943.
That in the homeland?
The first mass Soviet steel helmet was the NL-36. (Shortly after adopting) by the end of 1936 it turned out that this helmet great number of shortcomings: the steel brittle and fragile bullet resistance in flexible areas are just the tip iceberg. By 1939, improved the helmet. She was named the NL-39 and US-36 was deprived of fundamental flaws. And here his word said Finnish War. It was found that the NL-39 wear with warm headgear is not possible, and not available liner makes fighter from frostbite at low temperatures.
Immediately thereafter, work began on the modernization podtuleynogo device helmet. As a result, the helmet was created NL-40. So, in the Red Army turned out to be three types of helmets. And although the models 36 and 39 laid off, those were until the majority of the army.
What's in German?
By the time of 1941, Nazi Germany was a huge range of different helmet-helmet like the old models M16, M17 and M18, as well as more modern M35 and M40. The last two models were the primary means of protection of the soldier at the beginning of 1941. Helmet 35th model in many respects resembled the old German helmets from World War. It differs shorter fields and visor, weight reduction, other ventilation tubes.
The outbreak of war Germany began to lower the cost of production of helmets, as required to expand the production of all military equipment. The result was a new series of modifications helmet M42. These helmets were more technologically advanced, but have a simplified structure of the steel. M42 helmet has become popular gradually replace earlier models 35 and 40, although all three were used by soldiers until the end of the war.
War makes adjustments
Works to reduce the cost of production of helmets were made in the Soviet Union. Adjustments to the industrial production of the deficit brought dopants. Originally used for helmets grade steel I-1, but it was too expensive to produce and in 1942, its replaced by I-2 with a lower nickel content. Although during punching of the helmet and 2 hardly differed from bulletproof helmets of I-1, the reject rate of the final product increased significantly. After some time, it was decided to go back to using the old steel helmets to create.
So what could be better?
Helmets tests were carried already mentioned by the Commission in two stages. Compared subjected Soviet helmets NL-40 made of steel I-1 and I-2, as well as numerous captured German helmets. Experience happened to all six models: M16, M17, M18, M35, M40 and M42. It turned out that the model of the German helmets quite differ greatly. Exploration exposed not only the composition of the steel. The most "interesting" part, was bombardment of helmets of firearms and undermining the fragmentation charges at close range.
Helmets fired from the Mosin rifle with distances of 700-1000 meters, with a revolver Nagant system from a distance of 10 meters, sub-machine gun Shpagina a distance of 115 meters, subjected to exposure and shrapnel mortar grenades fire.
As a result, it was found that the NL-Soviet 40 is a bullet-proof protection means than German helmets. On average, the penetration of the German helmets were three times higher than that of domestic models. However, the expert committee recommended tougher screening standards for testing helmets on marriage in the production, and to continue the search for new steel grades to improve helmet quality, and simplify the manufacturing process.
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