Frag Out! Magazine
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A front shroud for NVD mount is composed into the element connecting two side rails, which simultaneously is a basis to interweaving a specific spider web from the shock cord. The entire part is mounted to the side rails with two screws and linked with an appropriately profiled holder by a front rim of the shell fragment. The rails and the element which fixes a shroud into the crown are made from polymer, but a holder and a shroud are aluminum alloy ones. Shroud is compatible with Norotos, Wilcox, Thales and other NVG mounts. The front shroud can be disassembled, and a helmet itself can be used only with side rails. Rails weight is 137 g, and a shroud of the night-vision device with a mounting system weights the next 115 g. The MSA ARCH suspension is based on the head band system adjustable with a knob (Ratchet) and suspension pads inside with pieces of hook & loop. It gives a lot of the configuration possibilities – the ARCH shell is manufactured in one-size- fits-all. A head band is adjusted similarly as in the solutions of other manufacturers, and the only difference is a knob lockout. Optionally, ARCH might be delivered with different mesh suspension lining but the head band ensures a higher level of protection against impacts. A four point chinstrap system was designed to cooperate in the best way with active hearing protectors – thanks to their considered connection a collision with hearing protection muffs is avoided. The chinstraps are easily adjusted and fastened with a flat buckle – comfortable in use, also when operating in gloves. In the rear and partly top part of the helmet shell are lined with loop – it take about 1/3 of its total surface and one must admit that they create a quite "aggressive pattern". The marking strobes, identification markers, counterweights for NVG might be placed on the rear of the hemlet. There is also spider-web shock cord laced from the rear part of the shell fragment to the night-vision device slop. It gives a user a wide field for creative invention and is – in the certain sense – a modern substitute of the rubber clinging covers of the American M1 helmets during the Vietnam War. www.fragoutmag.com