The U.S. Army is planning to deploy a combat helmet that is 22 percent lighter than the current helmet used by soldiers. Announced on Monday, the Advanced Combat Helmet (ACH) Generation II is said to ...

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division received the Army’s newest helmet today, the first combat helmet capable of withstanding small arms fire without added protection. The Next Generation ...

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Soldiers will soon be wearing a helmet that's up to 24 percent lighter than the current 15-year-old model, according to the Army. The Advanced Combat Helmet Generation II looks the same as the legacy ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, May 17, 2010) -- The Army recall of 44,000 Advanced Combat Helmets that were issued to Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is the result of a Department of Justice ...

For the last two decades, the Army’s protective headgear has gone largely unchanged. But after four years of developing a new ballistics helmet, 111 combat engineers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Justice Department investigation into whether an Ohio-based military contractor took shortcuts in its production of military combat helmets has led to a massive Army recall. Army ...

A U.S. Army helmet equipped with pads engineered by Vicis.. Courtesy Vicis More than 100 NFL players and thousands of high schoolers now wear a football helmet created by Vicis, a Seattle startup that ...

More than 300,000 service members have returned home with a traumatic brain injury since 9/11. Though the Pentagon says most cases are considered mild, in some cases those injuries have led to the ...