But a 2014 review conducted by a committee created by the National Academies' National Research Council notes that while the Kevlar-based ACH helmet is a significant evolution from its WWI ...

Various U.S. military units and services began fielding the ACH 2003. Lighter than the previous PASGT infantry helmet, the ACH features a pre-drilled Night Vision Goggle (NVG) bracket hole.

The report, released today, found that 126,052 Army advanced combat helmets (ACH) and 3,000 lightweight Marine Corps helmets (LMCH) had defects, including “serious ballistic failures ...

While the Army-issued ACH helmet offered adequate protection, the First Sergeant elected to wear a high-speed Ops-Core FAST ...

Made of high-density polyethylene instead of the current helmet's Kevlar, the ACH Gen II weighs about 2.5 pounds in size large -- about a 24-percent weight reduction, officials from Program ...

US Patent D242088 S That year, because the flexibility of Kevlar layered fiber coupled with another evolution in advanced industrial design, the Army rolled out the Advanced Combat Helmet (or ACH).

While posing a risk to service members, "These investigations did not develop any information to indicate military personnel sustained injury or death as a result of the defective ACH helmets.

The OM Tactical ACH -1 IIIA Helmet is manufactured with processing techniques to provide enhanced shell protection, at lower weight with improved comfort and mobility. The helmet shell is cut to ...

but is a major step-up from the Advanced Combat Helmet, or ACH, that most soldiers have been issued over the last two decades. The NG-IHPS gives soldiers “increased ballistic and fragmentation ...

The ACH turned away a bullet that hit Staff Sgt. Ryan Frye square on the side of his head, days before the birth of his daughter. A ceremony reunited Frye with his life-saving helmet Oct. 30 here ...

The Advanced Combat Helmet Generation II looks the same as the legacy ACH, but the new helmet is made from polyethylene instead of Kevlar, PEO Soldier experts told reporters during a media ...

Joseph McKenzie in the head by about a quarter of an inch. Instead, his Advanced Combat Helmet, or ACH, took the brunt of the impact. After he got fixed up by the medic for superficial wounds ...