WWII Helmet Durability Test

[@celtic2405]

It is completely pointless to do a stress test with replica helmets. The material composition of original helmets is completely different. The German helmet doesn't even have the right shape. 🙈

[@mahtablabib357]

I was here for these comment. Lol

[@douglas2632]

You could cook in it wash,shave USGI helmet was superior an all ways

[@teru797]

it at least gives us an idea on shape. all the repro helms are prob made out of the same material. so shape design plays a bigger role. edit Mike B shot a real German helmet. It didn't fair much better sadly. He also shot a Japanese helmet and the repro one did better. I think it was because our steel was poor quality near the end of the war. Same situation may have been true for the Germans.

[@celtic2405]

@@teru797 The German WWII steel helmets were made of silicon-nickel steel. It was machine-drawn from a steel plate in 13 steps. Finally, it was hardened in a complex process. Reproduction helmets are a pile of rubbish in comparison! No sane person would go into action wearing a reproduction helmet.

[@Welshman21]

German helmet won

[@Gaming_12331]

Totally honest, I feel like the German helmet was the most survival helmet

[@ReichWarLord]

Ja

[@mojiljubimci2125]

Da

[@Kraska357]

same

[@TrollsExposed351]

😂 Lol yeah exactly same here

[@TrollsExposed351]

@@ReichWarLord😂 Hey German can you speak English we know you can lol obviously this guy is American probably cannot speak German lol it’s mandatory for you to speak English in your country depending on where you are or Russian😅

[@SteveBrownRocks2023]

The German stahlhelm is the best, no doubt. Im surprised how tough the Japanese one was. The U.S. helmet was good protection from dirt & rocks from explosions & not much else. None of them would stop a rifle bullet.

[@SpeedbirdProdzz]

Totally agreed

[@JerzyKociecki-qv4gr]

NIE PRAWDA CELOWO GROT UDERZYŁ WYŻEJ, KŁAMSTWO NA RZECZ NIEMCÓÓW.

[@p99guy]

The real US M1 helmet was specifically rated to stop a .45acp from a 1911. Made from Hadfield hardened Manganese Steel.

[@gotanon9659]

Meanwhile a real US helmet could stop a 45cal

[@skatetrooper5285]

​@@p99guyNo, not really. The German helmets were a whole lot stronger, the World War I German Helmet variants. The German helmets were a bit thicker than your typical World War 1 and 2 helmets and on top of that made from some kind of chromium steel nickel alloy as well as sami-forged instead of purely stamped like most other helmets.

[@Kaiser_von_Europa]

As they all say "Superior German Engineering!"

[@jonderickmutia7112]

Jawohl

[@dirkurban3573]

Hüttenwerk Thale! Qualität aus Mitteldeutschland!👍

[@福正之]

形のテストとしては一貫してるし興味深かったです 素材はもうとやかくいうようなものではないですからね やはりデザインはドイツが最高で、日本のは疲れにくく、アメリカのものは使い勝手がよい。 それぞれ長所があるけどドイツ型が現代に生き残ったのも納得の結果ですね

[@まきりん弐]

湾岸戦争の際、米軍兵士がかぶっていたヘルメットがまんま旧ドイツ軍のデザインでしたね。あれは印象的でした。

[@geraldbrunken8702]

Thev German helmet

[@Randomclone5464]

Just thought I’d mention this helmets in World War II were not designed to stop bullets and obviously not arrows. They were designed to stop shrapnel and protect your head from flying objects.

[@dynamitedingo8183]

they said that in the video. did you even watch it?

[@Randomclone5464]

@@dynamitedingo8183 yes I said it for the people who go straight to the comments

[@LemonHead-sq5ws]

Even tiny pieces of shrapnel could penetrate a ww2 helmet as can be seen in many dug up war dead

[@Randomclone5464]

@@LemonHead-sq5ws correct

[@djlu3011]

Yeah i still want the german helmet.

[@hamishcarter8982]

Thanks for acknowledging there is no "Nazi" nationality. Its just German, and the Germans can live with it. 👍

[@dirtbiker5863]

I mean wwII it was nazi helmets but lets all forget.

[@hamishcarter8982]

@@dirtbiker5863 nope just a Hindu symbol titled at a 45 degree angle

[@420PeterGriffin]

@@dirtbiker5863Stahlhelm was developed in 1917

[@sadsnow8040]

That was a helmet form ww2, it’s a Nazi helmet.

[@Dev05-fr5np]

@@wilhelmiv9608ye it’s just that most Germans wear them so there naturally associated

[@wilhelmiv9608]

The tannerite under the helmet reminded me of what my grandfather told me he and the other soldiers use to do with their helmets in the SAADF. They would take their helmets - staaldak(steel roof) as they were officialy called or Pispot(Piss pot) as the soldiers would call it and then they would take the liner out wich is quite simple to do and chuck a firework, leftover simulation training grenades or evan flashbangs under the helmet and place it on the ground and then. Run like hell! he says they sometimes shot hundreds of meters into the sky and were still perfectly usable afterwards. When he showed me his helmet you could tell what he had done with it, for it had thes weird tiny dents from the inside outward scattered about.

[@BillyGunn-p8x]

Those German helmets whoever made them needs a raise

[@Ruskot2008]

whoever made them is dead

[@Titan-cameraman676]

How Germans lose i mean I don’t like Germany from ww2

[@fanwtn5124]

@@Titan-cameraman676 they lose because they fight for too long for their own capability. They were out manned, less industry power, and have less in almost every aspect compared to the combined allied force

[@justa.american8303]

Your tests were interesting, especially the arrow test. But for the German helmet, there is one huge difference. The actual helmets were hardened when made. To properly form them, the steel had to be heated cheŕry red, and it was press shaped in two stages. After that, it was chucked in an oil bath. This caused it to hardened (I forgot the Rockwell hardness). This increased the overall strength of the steel. The American and Japanese helmets weren't hardened. Hence if you get today's repro German steel type helmet, it isn't hardened, and the steel type isn't the same. I've tried on a German WW2 paratrooper helmet, and those suckers weigh twice as much as the repros made today. The most versatile helmet is the American. With its removeable liner, you can use it as a wash basin, collect eggs, grenades, etc . To do a fair test of the German helmet, you'd have to fork over big bucks for an original.

[@wbwilhite]

I have two German helmets given to me by my WW2 uncles. One helmet has battle damage and blood stains on the liner. It is heavy and thick. It is marked on the metal part of the liner as 1936. Like I said, it's heavy. The other helmet had no battle damage and is marked 1944. It is made of thinner and lighter metal. It looks good, but it is less protective than the older model. Holding the helmets in my hands, left and right, the weight difference is immediately obvious.

[@teru797]

could you please make a youtube video on that? That's fascinating. I didn't know there was a difference.

[@wbwilhite]

@@teru797 After looking at each helmet carefully, the main difference is weight. I'd read that the rolled rim was phased out, but my 1944 Stahlhelm is rolled. The 1944 helmet is black, but my uncle sanded off the insignia. This particularl helmet was never worn. He may have bought it from a German souvenir shop that specialized in finishing and selling military material to souvenir seeking GIs post-war. On the other hand, the 1936 helmet is heavy with battle damage and blood ruined leather inside. The blood eventually rotted out that part of the liner. The Swastika Eagle has gradually faded since I acquired the helmet in 1967. I guess he fell for the Summer of Love propaganda and didn't want the helmets, so he gave them to me, his 12 year old Nazi fascinated nephew.

[@wbwilhite]

Note: The older uncle fought as an American paratrooper in the Montgomery conceived Operation Marketgarden. The other uncle was post-war occupation circa 1950. Both helmets passed to me from the younger uncle. I am now 69 today, September 1. After years of study with the military and beyond, I have mostly lost interest in WW2. I am more concerned now about WW3.

[@karstenwulf9298]

Ja das stimmt, denn zum Ende des Krieges musste gespart werden, denn das Material wurde knapp!

[@nobodyexpectssi4654]

@@wbwilhite Un puente demasiado lejano. Sabía que los últimos cascos alemanes (con el “borde” afilado y no plegado, eran de menor calidad que los del primer periodo de la guerra. Pero me sorprende que exista diferencia tan clara en el peso.

[@輝明新井]

日本帝国陸軍鉄帽 帽体（シェル）は前後にやや長く、裾は少し広がっている。前後と左右はそれぞれほぼ対称形で、避弾経始をなし、また鋼材としてクロムモリブデン鋼を使用していた。この鋼材は硬質ゆえに銃弾や破片の着弾時に割れやすく、あえて割れることで衝撃を吸収して、着用者の頭部を保護することを企図したものであった。特殊鋼板の厚さは1mm、重さは約1kg

[@まきりん弐]

Japanese helmet. This is the Type 90 helmet （大日本帝国陸軍九十式鉄帽）that was officially adopted by the Imperial Japanese Army. There is a story about a soldier who was lucky enough to be hit by a U.S. military bullet, and the bullet went around the inside of his helmet and came out through the hole where it hit.

[@skatetrooper5285]

Wow

[@mtnman8783]

This reminds me of old demolition ranch. Back when he was still interesting

[@User-m6b2w]

I can agree

[@BrentlyFlorer-ob7om]

Yes

[@Isaiahbowling10]

He is still interesting tho ngl

[@MikhailYakov]

He forgot WW2 Soviet helmet (ssh-40 or Stalinium helmet)

[@EpicGamingWithJoshua]

Yeah

[@bryanparkhurst17]

I don't agree with your assessment, I think the German helmet came out on top. As I am an American I do believe that that is a very unbiased opinion.

[@せいのじ]

我が国の鉄兜をわりと肯定的に紹介してくれてありがとう(訳してね)👍️

[@lavishkirad5816]

RULE NO 1 "Never expect German made things weak."

[@sixgunsymphony7408]

The USA still used the Model 1917 "Brodie" helmet in 1941 and much of 1942. The British Commonwealth forces also used the Brodie helmet to the end of the war. The Brodie helmet should be tested with the others. Also test the French, Italian, and Soviet helmets too.

[@kai.b.4218]

The German "Stahlhelm" is clearly the best helmet. It is not for nothing that the helmet shape has proven itself in German fire departments to this day. But in recent years, other helmet shapes made of heat-resistant plastics have also become established in fire departments, such as those from Rosenbauer, Schuberth or Dräger etc. Schuberth has stuck to a slightly modified shape.

[@有限会社今北産業]

Fun fact: Helmets used by the Japanese military are made of chrome molybdenum steel, which is highly resistant to corrosion.

[@YeeYeeLife]

That is fun

[@mrnizzi]

Thats a chinese made copy of a german helmet, ww2 german helmets are heat treated steel so even stronger

[@skatetrooper5285]

German helmets were a whole lot stronger, esthetically World War I German Helmet variants. The German helmets were a bit thicker than your typical World War 1 and 2 helmets and on top of that made from some kind of chromium steel nickel alloy as well as sami-forged instead of purely stamped like most other helmets. Turn on top of that as you mentioned the German World War II helmets and World War 1 helmets were heat treated.

[@BuitenlevenmetBert]

German helmet won by far imho!👌

[@THERINGUS]

A thing to note when it comes to these helmets is that they were not designed to take bullets, they were designed to protect the soldiers head from shrapnel.

[@tigerpisces5506]

People also ask Why are Stahlhelms so expensive and superior? In contrast to the Hadfield steel used in the British Brodie helmet, the Germans used a harder martensitic silicon/nickel steel. As a result, and also due to the helmet's form, the Stahlhelm had to be formed in heated dies at a greater unit cost than the British helmet, which could be formed in one piece. Was the German ww2 helmet authentic or a replica?

[@Makirov23]

The reason the arrow bounced off the stahlhelm is because of the wide brim

[@Tanklover1-l3y]

american:hardcore japanese:hard german:normal

[@犬まにまに]

The Japanese helmet was a Type 90, but a Type 98 helmet would have been much stronger (not the Type 98 sun helmet, as is often confused).

[@Ww2-and-viatnam]

He is like a mix of demolition ranch and whistling diesel

[@コクヨかパイロットか]

Japanese helmets were the only three-point support helmets in the world at that time. So it is less tiring. Modern combat helmets are four-point supports.

[@hick9060]

どうやらこのヘルメットは大和魂が足りなかったようですね。今すぐにでもシベリア送りにしましょう

[@pogmothoin1342]

They should be hired by secret service, They were able to stand on a sloped roof, next try testing a British beret whilst drinking a cup of tea.

[@EtienneMorin-ot1hr]

It would have been interesting to test it with shrapnels. Maybe putting a few metal fragments around the tannerite and blowing it near the helmet.

[@dreamcatchers9809]

Police: umm why does your vehicle have a tail. Yee Yee : that's my helmets

[@RaZcal911]

That appears to be a modern reproduction German helmet. The originals where made differently and potentially were harder due to tempering. But still no match for a bullet.

[@Asherisconfusing]

I’ve never been this early but I love yalls vids YEE YEE

[@alexbowman7582]

There’s film of soldiers in the early part of WW1 going to battle with cloth hats but there was so many head injuries from shrapnel they soon were issued metal helmets but the head injuries actually increased with helmets much to the dismay of the officers but medical personnel pointed out that although there were more head injuries those injuries were previously fatal without helmets.

[@s0cc451]

Most of these helmets are made for shrapnel. Although depend on angles, bullets will glance off.

[@1MahaDas]

I've worked with steel under high pressure, and steel tends to lose its strength after repeated use. So, I'm guessing that these tests are not really conclusive since the helmets have been weakened by prior gunshots/blows.

[@tigerpisces5506]

To think the Alies and Japanese sent troops into battle wearing sucide helmets is embarrassing.

[@erikag2598]

Tannerite is officially on my Christmas wish list!

[@0159ralph]

I remember in 82-83 when the U.S switched from the M1 helmets to the PASGT Fritz helmet, it was a trip. This was due to lessens learned from the German M1942, that was years ahead of its time. Also we copied the MG 42, to the M60. I was a gunners mate in the Navy and we were still using the M1 helmets. At GQ we looked like the guys in WW2 fighting German U Boats in the North Alantic or Kamikazes off Okinawa

[@メロン王子-p4p]

アメリカと共にナチスと帝国陸軍が選ばれたことを誇りに思おう。

[@どっこい太郎-w7y]

イタリアも仲間に入れてあげてｗ

[@russianvillege]

日本とドイツは丈夫だったが、戦争に負けてしまった……

[@Koji-Tadokoro]

ヘルメットはあくまで掠り傷を防ぐ為のものだから、直撃弾は防げない

[@larry648]

Wow, I had the U.S. M1 helmet in the 80’s before the Kevlar helmet. Glad I never went into combat.

[@mrcharliesky]

You need a UK helmet

[@notarussianspy762]

brodie helmets are better than the jap helmet, but not the stahlhelm or M1

[@conradschulz1806]

​@@notarussianspy762the jap helmet IS bettet then the m1😂😂

[@Sani-Sanchos]

The best combat helmet is the German combat helmet It's not for nothing that no matter which arms in the world, whether USA, England, etc... have taken over the design.

[@tigerpisces5506]

Germans used these hemelts in military soldiers and police officers until 1990. Kevlar might be better?

[@thekingofking1756]

You're amazing bro keep going 💪

[@keithmcwilliams7424]

Try genuine ww2 helmets not reproduction ones you will get different results.

[@jpc420]

I agree with you . But I wouldn’t do this with original helmets they are rare and worth good money .

[@derekkline8359]

3:54 Me, a 16th generation from my 13x Hessian German great grandfather came to THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH in 1629: “Damn, that kraut got smoked by his own ammo!!” 😂 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@michaelanonymous5608]

It's not about "how many hits", it's about "how good are vital parts of the body protected", and there the German helmet was the most up-to-date-model of its time. That's why the USA copied it later and still has similarities in its shape.

[@HappyPeppo]

you cant compare a Aliexpress or Amazon *german* helmet which are not that durable as original german helmets which were made out of very good steel,i own original one and man these helmets are good. And these helmets werent made for anti projectile bud anti shrapnel helmets btw

[@tavish4699]

yep , but imagine they would shoot a real one, us as collectors woulf go nuts

[@mikey29211]

Deepka from India reproductions

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

they obviously know this lol

[@whistlemc]

Love these videos

[@RonloxMaster]

Our helmets very good

[@Syrup_Boi]

I think the best thing to acknowledge here is that these helmets weren’t built to stop bullets, but rather shrapnel. There’s also the fact that they aren’t made of the same stuff, and why is the German helmet shaped like that?

[@MaikReiser]

Precision german engeneering. 😊

[@АлексейКолпаков-о2х]

Это лишний раз показало, что стандартная каска не способна выдржать прямое попадание ружейной пули. Как и пистолетной с близкого расстояния.

[@paulgee8113]

Germany 🇩🇪 makes good stuff

[@whatforaaron2494]

Now you need a Tommy (British) helmet, and a Soviet helmet.

[@AaronTeh-j7g]

The German Stahelms are made to stop bullets and for the others you need to turn to a certain angle then only you will be protected and also small rocks

[@Kraska357]

love the video from s.korea

[@jameswaterfield]

Well, all except the Brodie helmet, a dented example of which can be seen in the Imperial War Museum, having been used for target practice, using a SMLE

[@akeel_muzafar]

Amazing

[@Sk_fargo]

German helmet was also designed to protect the neck area from shrapnel.

[@Mr_Mgun]

those seem to be replicas.

[@kanapu1982]

Is this Japanese military helmet a replica? It is made of chrome-molybdenum steel, which is prone to cracking if it cannot withstand impact.

[@gowoe]

Definitely the Stahlhelm won, because most helmets today(military, constructions, even skating/climbing name it) got their shape from it(or the german paratrooper helmet respectively). And I'm not biased, because I'm a German.😉😅🤣

[@KnifeMadness]

6:07 never treat your gun like that.

[@hissingoose]

Shape wise, the modern American helmet is more similar to the WW2 German helmet than the US ww2 helmet.

[@henryalexander-ht5kw]

Not a fair test that’s not a real World War II American helmet

[@alexvisser5913]

They'd be worse trust me

[@tukituki2001]

I dont think theyre going to use an original helmet lol, it would be a relic

[@WW2lover-o5s]

@@alexvisser5913bro if anything they would be stronger people jsut make stuff cheap these days back then they actually put effort into thing they made everything was built is built to last nowadays everything built cheaply so you have to buy a new so they get more money and you lose money

[@WW2lover-o5s]

@@alexvisser5913you have no clue what your taking about

[@WW2lover-o5s]

@@tukituki2001yeah I agree

[@khangkt1721]

It would have been better to have a modern helmet equivalent as a control group to see how much technology advance

[@Big_biskieplayz]

1:38 bullseye 🎯

[@ultrajd]

This is not a fair test in the slightest. Firstly, it’s quite clear that none of these helmets are vintage World War II. Meaning that they likely do not have the metallic composition of their second World War™ counterparts. They are also all probably made in a completely different style of manufacturing. Another thing is helmets in World War II. We’re never designed to take direct impacts. They were designed to only protect you from things like shrapnel or flying debris. They were not designed to take a direct bullet strike. Even today with our Kevlar helmets getting hit in the head with a bullet is still going to , knock you for a loop.

[@christiansalcedoii9632]

Can you do Soviet, British, and Italian next?

[@teru797]

no.

[@YeeYeeLife]

yes

[@たま-s3m1r]

日本の鉄兜は、クローム鋼が使用されていて腐食に強い・・・とされている。 しかし、クロームモリブデン鋼は、摩擦に強いが、ガラスの様に脆い。 どうなんだろう

[@jackjohnston1298]

Britain where I’m from usually never gets any credit in videos like this😞

[@maximkretsch7134]

A club is not exactly the kind of weapon the steel helmet was designed against.

[@stevenbodum3405]

not shure how strong orginal helmets were, but the german one has the best shape design

[@christianebersold829]

German helmet is actually very closely designed to the Fedayin Saddam-headgear

[@Atomprofessor]

Nice! But I really don´t want to wear one of these helmets when you examine them!

[@muhammadjuniannurrahman6309]

Japanese helmet wins i thought

[@plemennoipepper1768]

It's funny to look at the test, where modern copies of helmets are presented that have nothing in common with the original except appearance... Sorry for my bad English... Greetings from Moscow! No war!)

[@ishowduppi]

4:13 you shot German helmet 2 times in same place

[@bowed305]

Glad to know. I was just about to buy a helmet. Now I know it’s America all the way. Totally unbiased here as well. Just going off the scientific evidence.

[@justacat2]

if there was a soviet helmet, it would've cleared them all, apparently german soldiers picked up helmets of dead soviet soldiers, tho maybe it's not better than the US helmets i'm not sure

[@kurtschmidt5005]

Are these replicas because the metallurgy of the helmets were different historically.

[@ЯМИЯИЛИМАФ-ц5н]

The force of the blow must be the same every time for the quality of the experiment, it is difficult to do this with your hands, a slingshot and a bow too... In general, the experiment with damaging rare helmets from World War II is a stupid exercise, since these helmets are valuable, if of course these are original helmet samples

[@YeeYeeLife]

They were replicas

[@GermanSkeletonGuy]

How do I say that the German helmet should’ve came out on top without people calling my biased?

[@amirhassanmonajemi9573]

Obviously and literally 1.German 2. Japanese 4. American. That's the rank that I got from this video.

[@ayanokoji369]

German > japenease > american

[@amilyubov]

But you literally ignored one of the most important figures in the WWll - Soviet Union one 👀

[@ReneLemorGalloway]

I am a ARMY Brat built and made in Germany after my father came from `Nam ... born on a U.S.ARMY base in Germany ..... I think .... ""made in GERMANY" ... wins , just like me ;)

[@lutzer.614]

The German helmet is a replica, the ventilation rivet is too pronounced, greetings from Old Germany

[@nagawo12]

1:40 Japanese soldier gave up and deciced to show his forehead

[@hfdennycheng9010]

THIS 3 TYPES OF HELMET, WE ALSO HAD DURING WW2 WE ARE CHINESE BEFORE WW2, A LOT OF GERMAN M35 HELMET WERE SOLD TO CHINA AFTER THE AMERICAN JUST THE WAR, A LOT OF US M1 HELMETS WERE GIVEN TO CHINA BY THE AMERICAN DURING WW2, A LOT OF JAPANESE TYPE 90 HELMET WERE CAPTURED BY THE CHINESE

[@fraugoogle]

Why am I not surprised?🤷🏻‍♀️

[@bartsimpson6767]

Glad you didn't do the "buff the helmet" test...😆

[@crrose1186]

Imagine having the best helmet and still losing the war 😂

[@RobGM2]

surprised how well the Japanese helmet held up

[@nicolasgaldames730]

It is logical that today's weapons will do a lot of damage to those helmets. It is absurd. They should have done the tests with weapons that were used in those days, like they did with the Cold 1911, and they should have used the M1 Garand, the Tomi gun, etc., weapons from WW2, not those of today.