Why don't Militaries adopt helmets with integrated visors instead of handing every soldier a pair of shades?
Why don't Militaries adopt helmets with integrated visors instead of handing every soldier a pair of shades?
Why don't Militaries adopt helmets with integrated visors instead of handing every soldier a pair of shades?
Easier to replace when pvt. dumbfrick breaks it.
How easily do bullet proof visors break?
if it's a moving part it can break.
looking cool will make up for the costs
>unnecessary point of failure
>consequences for failure
>fewer options in terms of usage
>Doesn't follow the rule of cool
Marines would find a way to break it immediately
that isn't bulletproof
It could be
bullet proof glass capable of stopping .30-06 is about 60-70mm thick, or ~2.5in thick
carrying that on your face is going to strain your neck
even 50mm thick glass designed to stop 5.56 would probably be difficult to wear for long
and they are going to interfere with your ability to use the sights, which can be difficult unless all your soldiers are master point shooters
without some kind of handwavium material like transparent steel, you are unlikely to see rifle-resistant visors used outside of niche applications like breaching and clearing a building
But who cares if it's bulletproof or not
>bullet proof glass capable of stopping .30-06
You do know that there are bullets WAY SMALLER than a fricking grandpa's battlerifle calibers?
Majority of all "bullet proof" gear are NIJ III-A, tops, as in only stop handgun rounds + shotgun buck.
But yeah, those visors are mostly designed to protect against frag and flying debris. Which itself can require up to NIJ II-A level protection.
The best ballistic goggles these days can take a blast of 12ga birdshot, pointblank.
the only way integrated visors work is if they're handled like virtual reality goggles where the person wearing the helmet doesn't actually see the outside environment directly.
Look at this SHIT fricking coverage lmao.
Anything blows up on the ground <30m away from you?
Enjoy having high velocity pebbles, splinters, fragments etc. embedded in your eyes, moron.
Look at this guy and imagine how he'd end up wearing the stupid shit in OP's pic.
Man up
yeah just take blinding shrap to the eyes
you don't need them
man up!
Oakley sent my battalion free M frames in Iraq. They were $180 dollars retail. They were scratched up and destroyed in a few weeks. Better to have cheapies.
This lol.
>t zoomer and future MIC shill
i understand the point behind ballistics glasses but holy frick they would fog up so much for me i couldnt see shit
>Seems heavy,
>brings glare when using nvg
>steams up in the heat
so far they are shit in construction helmets
Militaries, prolly not.
A pair of shades is ussually lighter then visor+mounting , more convinient to store too withouth getting scratched up , and carry withouth scratching them up
which does take a minor toll on visibility.
From what i learned when motorcycling
>Rain droplets on visor/glasses do not cause much visibility issues
>Dirt doesnt cause much visibility issues
>Scratches dont cause visibility issues
>Fog doesnt create much visibility issues (if its not terrible)
>sun ussually doesnt cause much visibility issues
Combine 3 of those 4 factors and you cant tell shit from dick apart
Sits closer to the eyes so less "glass" is required to give decent eye coverage. Easy to swap. Shades go yeet, clears go yooot. Smaller visor replacements are easyer to carry
5 factors 5, shit. I forgot to change 4 to 5 after i added sun as a factor later
Sometimes goggles are needed instead. Some guys wear shades and keep goggles on their helmet. If you've ever been in a haboob, you find yourself struggling to even squint without getting your eyes caked full of debris.
Yeah, let's just give every solder an HGU-55/P since those have a bungee visor plus comms.
>his troops use helmets and visors and carry all sorts of cumbersome gear into the field which never gets used
>his troops get yeeted & deleted by some guy with a mustache in a hawaiian shirt wearing a pit vipers and a cheap gaming headset who used a homebuilt interface cobbled together from sources including a nintendo pocket color gameboy and a ps3 to pilot a swarm of explostive suicide minidrones directly into each of op's troops like a cloud of sparrows while smoking a joint rolled in hash oil
Being perfectly honest here: the only troops who should be wearing crazy full battle rattle are guys getting dropped directly into the shit for reasons, and dudes on show-of-force patrols where they go through neighborhoods and flex on the plebs.
Infantry today shouldn't be heavy or light... modern infantry should be ULTRALITE.
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Wouldn't that hurt your nose from chaffing after hours of usage?
Why dont they just put a bit of foam on the edges?
>why don't stoopid adultz just simply do my super smart idea i think i came up with by myself
you need to be 18 or older to post here
Do you not recall UCP? That is literally how it came into existence.
are you moronic
This is the article that OP (probably) got the images from: https://soldiersystems.net/2014/06/24/ops-core-visit-trip-memory-lane/
Yeah so what?
>Why don't Militaries adopt helmets with integrated visors instead of handing every soldier a pair of shades?
Imagine being back at the base or some place safe, and you still need to buy a pair of sunglasses anyways
Honestly makes me more surprised it hasn't been done.
I'm there's money to be made in that for someone.