This. Fucking click bait shit. That's not Boba Fett's helmet. Oh, and it wouldn't even be a Boba Fett helmet it would be a Mandalorian style helmet.



I mean, that's not to say Grievous' helmet wasn't awesome but did the author of the article do any kind of fucking research?

You shut your filthy whore mouth.

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Needs more martian armor.

That's not very Mandalorian.

We are within 50 years of elite units of soldiers using full ballistic helmets with integrated HUD, comms, and data feed of whatever type is required.

F35 Helmet is an example of a good try. Not a success but a try. It's going to happen.

Rapidly approaching the point were the hud will be better than Mark 1 eyeballs-then no real need for any clear lense.

I like Jack Bauer's mask better.




I'm more impressed that they are using the Noveske Flaming Pig.

Boba Fett uses keymod. You should too.

I question the authenticity of the photo in the article.

Is that a Flaming Pig?

Another gem from the article, because 44 magnum is the preferred weapon of our enemies

lol airsoft

Guy #2 in photo is only wearing the front half/mask portion!  The back of his head.... going commando?

This...reminds me more of a crash test dummy than Fett

That shit looks like it's tailored for the happy meal crowd and very un-mandalorian. Probably came with crayons.

I could see this being useful in a small room breaching team, as you go through the door I'd guess you want every square inch of your frontal exposure areas covered,  but for normal ops, this seems like a lot of weight,  fogging, extra batteries and stuff to break down, loss of vision etc.

I could see if this mounted 360 IR/NV cameras, and you actually monitor a screen ala iron man with a 360 battle info system,  might be worth the weight penalty maybe.....

These cats may actually be the long range desert group....not the SAS troop, the original photo has David Sterling standing to the right of the photo.  The LRDG did conduct the early raids with PM so it could be said they are SAS, much like OSS Jedburg teams are considered SF.  Regardless, they were hard man.  For more on this this I recommend ROGUE HEROES by David Macintyre.

Lol, I thought the exact thing.

That's an NIJ Level IIIA body armor test round, along with a 124gr 9mm out of a sub gun

When you can drive hundreds of miles through trackless sand dunes in a pink jeep to keep fucking Nazis you are a badass.

He wouldn't be caught dead using dickmod

This nerd is right!

As someone who has played paintball and also done numerous sim trainings, those things are going to be hot and will collect sweat and fog over. Fucking dumb.

I'm not seeing the resemblance...

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Thank you. That's a mandalorian battle helmet.

looks more like this to me

Yeah! WTF?

I dunno. They've been working on that kind of thing for the better part of 30 years  and so far  the results have been anything but spectacular.

That kind of stuff is a lot better suited to pilots than to guys on the ground dealing with temperature extremes, dust, dirt, mud, and impacts.

ETA: 10 years ago we were having to put freaking plastic bags over radio hand mics to keep water out of them during FTX's.

Obviously most of you haven't opseced... I imagine the peripheral vision would still be better then a set of old school nods that facilitated many the journey to mecca. Not having to mess with a separate device balanced off your forehead and the ability to go thermal in a second? Who wouldn't want that? Cooling would be an issue if the internal system failed but still. It's gonna happen

Dear Penthouse, in this thread I learned that Green Berets = Royal Marine Commandos

says 4.8 pounds, seems a bit heavy.

I've a 3-year old daughter and opseced a happy meal or two for her and that looks like a prize.

I joke but for reelz.

I suspect this is correct.


Probably will have integrated thermal/IR + enhanced peripheral vision.  Armored and air conditioned.....


But how do you do all that and not have it be monstrously heavy.

Sight picture is hard to impossible to get with full enclosed helmet.

Click bait BS

You have serious issues, ( you also seem to ignore daily threads on here about the US )

Ps you are the one constantly telling us we are not citizens we are subjects. Try a bit of consistency eh.

Looked like a bad ass, had his work done for him by Vader, taken out by a blind man with a stick.

All right, I'll take a unit for extensive testing.

Saying IIIA would be basically useless to the average reader...

I had a conversation with a HSLD friend of mine a while back who said that these systems are working towards becoming some sort of information network device.  

Someone on here actually wrote it out in a very nice manner, but imagine an F35 loitering over a battlefield sending real time data to infantry on the ground showing friendly and enemy locations with built in HUD, map and GPS, range finding, ballistic, kestrel, and translation capabilities.  Look at how small your phone is, think of all the capabilities it has, and put that tech into a level III ballistic helmet.  Give it plug and play capabilities for stuff like radios, switching or charging batteries, or connecting to a device to send or receive data packets.

The concept is in the works, it is real, and it is the future.  It might be a decade or so before we start seeing regulars being fitted with this kind of tech, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a slow creep through SOF down to other MOS' like JTAC or select CO's and FTL's and what not.  If and when the tech gets to this point, I think the trade off of peripheral vision and mobility (obviously support gear will be require ie batteries, transmitters or transponders, etc and so forth) to be able to see every enemy combatant for miles with the press of a button allowing the troops to fight smarter with more up to date information and more capabilities with less equipment.  This kind of technology will be a force multiplier simply because it takes a lot of guess work out of the job and streamlines all of that information into a piece of equipment that's primary purpose is to provide ballistic protection.

The whole conversation with him was pretty interesting, to the point where he said Obama was right for cancelling the F22 in favor of the F35 because the new technology that is being worked on for the regular infantry hinges on the success of the F35 and it's technology.  He even implied that the F35 is the only strike aircraft ever that could never get a kill and still be a complete success because of what it can bring to the table for the boots on the ground going forward.  The conversation came up in the context of my military equipment related invention being designed for today and why I should consider adapting it a bit for the very  near future.  So my project went from being something that isn't really new, just better and more streamlined, into being something that is actually new taking things from just being a leg up to a stupid advantage, but I still have quite a few very technical problems that I am in the process of figuring out.

We will be fighting wars very differently in a relatively short time.  It will be very interesting to see it all pan out over time as far as lenses versus visors and projectors versus displays are concerned, not to mention what will and will not be Kevlar in the final design.  This topic is something that has somewhat captivated my interest for the last year or two, primarily because I am convinced that this kind of force multiplier is something that no one else is capable of duplicating with any real success any time soon while we're bring HALO IRL in our lifetimes.  As they say, knowledge is power.

mjolnir armor

Why do I have a t shirt cannon?

I can tell by the pixels that these are the spoken words of a seasoned vet.

Level IIIA helmet, that's gotta be kind of heavy.

That shit is BAD ASS!!

We have started to stray away from the lowest bidders.  There is also a highly contested effort to acquire forward looking equipment that is priced accordingly because the average person is penny smart and dollar dumb, just ask Joglee.  

Sas is the answer to the seals????  Someone needs to pull out a history book