Frag Out! Magazine

DESIGN The shell of the HA-03 helmet was made out aramid laminate. The outer coating of the shell was finished with layer of the ABS in dark green colour. It is a more expensive than standard paint- ing, but a coating of this type is characterised by a higher resist- ance to the mechanical damages and better protects a laminate against an impact of the atmospheric conditions or UV radiation. Helmets offers protection against standard 1.1g FSP projectile with velocity 600m/s, with BFD less than 20 mm. A helmet is bullet resistant against .357 Magnum and the 8g 9x19 FMJ with a mass of 8g according to Polish PN-V-87001 and NATO STANAG 2920. Unfortunately, the armed forces chosen a shell which makes it more difficult or nearly impossible to work with the muff-style hearing protectors, excluding the in-ear kits (such as NACRE QUIETPRO or SYLINX C4OPS) as the side parts of the shell are not profiled to the sides (as for instance in ACH), but almost flat. If the higher cut helmet shell would be chosen, those problems would not occur. On the sides of the shell there are ARC-style accessory rails with the bungee cords attached with the screws. The rail itself has a little bit flatter shape then original ARC due to the shell design and it neither does not have so much space for assembling ac- cessories, however preserving an assembling point originally intended for the oxygen mask. In relation to the helmet present- ed during the MSPO2014 it was also changed a point of the rail assembling but it is due to the differences in internal equipment of the helmet (about which further). In the front part of the shell there is three-point plastic shroud for night vision device mount screwed to the helmet with three screws. It is compatible with similar solutions widespread in the world and does not restrict the possibilities to use different kinds of the rhino arms. Also a socket is modified in comparison with the 2014 variant – then an assembling on the helmet was met- al-made. www.fragoutmag.com

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