American "CVC" family of helmets

Hello YouTube and Devin here again, and I have a Special video for you. This video is gonna be on two helmets, but they're they're actually just heavily modified versions of the same thing What you have before you have before you here is on the left. You have an a CVC helmet and on the right you have a DH 132 a CVC helmet And I'll explain all the models and everything in here This one's the older one and this is the newest version of the CVC helmet and what the CVC helmet stands for combat vehicle crewman and it is a helmet that's designed to be used in combat vehicles such as tanks and APCs and stuff like that and a lot of them have integrated communications. These ones I got were pretty beat up. So The one on the right actually didn't come with any Communications in it, but I'll explain what they were and everything like that When we look at the inside and stuff and the one on the left did come with a liner But it was missing a lot of parts and it was like frayed wires and it was very dry rotted and it was garbage So I junked it. I junked the liner out of it and I'll probably just convert it into like a Soha helmet I have quite a few of these actually and quite a few of these as well. So But um, we'll get into this now the combat vehicle helmet the DH 132, which is this family of helmets was designed by Gentex in 1973 to replace the T-56 series of helmets that had been kind of used since like Korea, post-Korea Before that tankers used like leather football helmets pretty much in tanks. So So this was kind of the first modern helmet to be used by combat vehicle Personnel made out of composite materials really now the D the DH 132 came out. It was just a very thin composite shell Offering minimal bump protection. It was pretty much if you bumped your head too hard, you could crack the shell on it It was pretty much plastic it was about as what you would picture an m1 liner like an m1 helmet liner and Then they came out with the the DH 132-a which is this which has a little bit thicker shell as you can tell it's about twice thick as an m1 shell And it's made out of composites and it provided a little bit a little bit better protection as far as bump And stuff like that goes and then they came out with the DH 132 B and the DH 132 B was provided to like tank commanders and Spotters and stuff people that had to expose themselves Out of the tank and that was a it actually thick one It's like as thick as this one is which is pretty much twice as thick as this one and what that was for is it actually was bulletproof and I was actually pretty much pasgat with the ears cut off and They came around kind of in the the mid 90s and they used those because the people that would have to expose themselves Needed that protection from shrapnel as well as you know You know small arms fire and stuff a lot more than than this so so that they needed that more protection so you see the a combination of 132 A's and 132 B's used in tanks a lot and this is their replacement the ACVC which is made by specialty plastics If you can see down there and specially plastics some of you might recognize that name because they made some of the later version m1 liners too from like the Late 70s to the mid 80s. They made a lot of the m1 liners. So this is a well-known company and It has a little bit bit of a mounting difference now these um had a liner that was held in place by these This one strip of velcro and these two points up here All right, these two screws Had a rubber edge and one snap in the back You would there would be like a little nylon webbing that would come up and you'd snap it on here And I'd had two big earphones on either side and it had a boom mic now Most of these you find will have Bose headsets on them and they're usually pretty rotted out and pretty pretty gross and disgusting but um So you see a lot of them just the shells or you find both leads are sized large by the way But you find a lot of these that are just the shells and these shells actually had a purpose that a lot of people Forget about you tend to see them as like CVC helmets, but these were actually like the first like fast helmets They see special forces using they used a lot of like dh 132 B's and dh 132 a's Because you could throw rails and stuff on them and other stuff and it would still provide the dh 132 B offered pretty much the same protection the 3a rating as an as an ACH or a pass get but you could still hear and shit So and you could throw rails on it and you could drill holes for four point chin strap and made it a lot more stable And it was just it was just an all-around better option for special forces So these are essentially the first special forces helmets as well, even though they weren't Purpose built for that a lot of them got converted a lot a lot of early special forces guys you see in the 90s and stuff like that have these essentially they're Combat vehicle helmets converted over to special forces helmets because most of the combat vehicle helmets just had a two-point chin strap So like the pass get and it would be under the the earphone right here There'd be like a little hook down here like a snap or like a pass get type chin strap just to point but um, you didn't really need more than that when you were around there and What it was is the in liner for as far as your for your head goes would be like it'd be a series of four long foam Pads that would run the full length of your head from forehead to nape pretty much And they had little air channels in them and it was in like a big mesh Net that you would hold in here the whole cover was mesh and then there would be four foam pads running top to bottom That's how that one looked in And they changed it up in the don't mind that a a CH top pad in there I'm working gun restoring this one and converting it over into like a gunfighter helmet But they changed a lot of stuff with the a CVC in the a CVC went to like kind of an ACH Style pad system. It had a big crown pad I had a brow pad and I had a nape pad But then it was this kind of big spider web pad instead of having a crown pad You had this big spider web type pad that would That would sit up here in the top and it would reach all the way down down here And then you'd have a smaller crown pad that would go over that spider web and a brow pad And a nape pad that wouldn't be for adjustment of your size and stuff and you can get them in different thicknesses and their Comm system instead of hanging loose would hang on these would route over these little plastic arms So you can adjust how they would slide in here and stuff like that and they were clipped in the back so that snap now became adjustment for your earphones and stuff like that and Also to keep you from bumping your face and stuff because they realized when the the gun would recoil and stuff people were getting hit In the face not necessarily like directly to the point where I would kill you But just the tank shaking around Would cause you to kind of bump your face they added this face mask on there But other than that, it was pretty much the same thing as this except now the liner has a little bit different It's not a big mesh crown pad and the ear pieces are all in one The ear pieces were separate from the mesh from the from the actual pads so And this face mask isn't like steel or anything It's just plastic to give you bump protection To keep you keep your face from bumping into all the steel and hard surfaces inside the tank or the APC a Lot of these are around you can find these pretty easily the dh1 132 series there you can find pretty much all versions around the ACV seats are harder to find especially complete and especially with All of these plastic parts intact a lot of these tend to be broken or missing so I was really glad to find this even though the liner was junk on it, I can always put a Liner in it if I really wanted to I still have parts of the liner So if I wanted to retrofit like some noise cancelling headphones in there just to make it look nice for display I probably will do that I'll probably retrofit some Some headphones in there and stuff like that But the liner will be a little different because that foam liner was pretty much so dry rotted to hell Because it wasn't stored properly. So I had to get rid of the liner But I don't know if I'll ever find another liner, but I think ACH pads will work just as well in there. So so But I figured you guys would want to know something like this something about a lesser-known helmet despite how common they are and how long they were used because they The DH 132s have been in service longer than the Pazgat and the ACH combined So this helmets one of the US's first composite helmets 1973, you know, whereas you see the Pazgat come out in 1985. So this is this is over 10 years older than the Pazgat the first DH 132s are and So it's it's not not a lot of known about them unless you were a tanker or an Armored personnel carrier or a driver of some sort in combat. You don't really know that these exist so I figured I'd do a video on them and Hopefully get some information out there and I hope you guys enjoyed this I don't know a ton of history between all the models and different versions of this helmet because there's ones that a lot of these helmets were Contracted out to different manufacturers a lot of the parts come from different manufacturers there's there's like seven different Headset manufacturers that I know of all by myself So, I mean there's a lot of different stuff that we could get into if I really wanted to sit down and do the research But I figured this would be a good overview video And if you want I'll go into each one of these helmets more in-depth if you guys want to see a video on that Or if you want to see any closer closer pictures or anything You can ask and I'll I'll try to get you some pictures if you want to see anything specific on it Until then Please leave a comment if you want to continue on the subject or just to show appreciation or if you want to see any different Kinds of helmets or any different kinds of videos in general Suggest subjects and topics for future videos if you have any helmets that you want to identify feel free to Get ahold of me and I'll try to help you as best I can to identify what helmet you have or where it came from or Anything like that. 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