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Hełm Wz. 50
The Wz50 () is a steel combat helmet produced in Polish People's Republic, Poland from 1950 to 1955. During the Cold War, these helmets would be widely exported to a number of Arab countries for its low price. Design After 1945, production of helmets Hełm wz. 31, wz. 31/50 (using pre-war resources) was not sufficient for the expanding Polish People's Army. In 1950, it was decided to launch the production of a new domestic helmet based on soviet pattern. The shell is another Warsaw Pact copy of the SSh-39 and SSh-40, Soviet SSh-40 design, along with the Czechoslovakian M53 helmet, Czech M53 and Hungarian M70. It was the first mass-produced helmet design developed in Poland after World War II. Its prototype was the Soviet helmet Sch-40. This product had the following dimensions: height 166 mm, length 271 mm, width 248 mm. It was pressed from 1.4 mm thick special steel sheet. Its weight did not exceed 1200 g. The internal fittings were based on the Italy, Italian helmet M33 he ...
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Combat Helmet
A combat helmet, also called a ballistic helmet, battle helmet, or helmet system (for some Modular design, modular accessory-centric designs) is a type of helmet designed to serve as a piece of body armor intended to protect the wearer's head during combat. Helmets designed for warfare are among the earliest types of headgear to be developed and worn by humans, with examples found in several societies worldwide, the earliest of which date as far back as the Bronze Age. Most early combat helmets were designed to protect against close-range strikes, thrown objects, and low-velocity projectiles. By the Middle Ages, helmets that protected the entire head were common elements of Plate armour, plate armor sets. The development of firearms, cannons, and explosive weaponry rendered armor intended to protect against enemy attack largely obsolete, but lightweight helmets remained for identification and basic protection purposes into the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when developments ...
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Hungarian M70
The M70 (Also known as M1970) is a steel combat helmet used by Hungary, a license made copy of the Soviet SSh-40 and further development of the previous model M50 helme Adopted in 1970 and used into the 1990s with its replacement by the introduction of modern Kevlar combat helmets. Design The shell is an exact copy of the Soviet SSh-40 design, the only difference being a unique liner among the copies produced among the Warsaw Pact The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a Collective security#Collective defense, collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Polish People's Republic, Poland, between the Sovi ... nations of this helmet. The liner featuring four pads with multiple holes punched in them for ventilation, supposedly developed around 1965. The pads being attached to a metal band covered in leather to the liner as opposed to the much simpler three separate pads attached directly to the liner of the ...
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Military Equipment Introduced In The 1950s
A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Militaries are typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with their members identifiable by a distinct military uniform. They may consist of one or more military branches such as an army, navy, air force, space force, marines, or coast guard. The main task of a military is usually defined as defence of their state and its interests against external armed threats. In broad usage, the terms "armed forces" and "military" are often synonymous, although in technical usage a distinction is sometimes made in which a country's armed forces may include other paramilitary forces such as armed police. Beyond warfare, the military may be employed in additional sanctioned and non-sanctioned functions within the state, including internal security threats, crowd control, promotion of political agendas, emergency services and reconstruction, pro ...
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