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 ...

Dublin, July 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Advanced Combat Helmet Market Outlook 2025-2034: Market Share, and Growth Analysis By Type (Black, Camouflage), By Material (Ballistic, Thermoplastic, ...

After successful stringent tests that program experts say well exceeded initial requirements, the Marine Corps is getting ready to field its new enhanced combat helmet. In the first quarter of fiscal ...

Two years after the Marine Corps started issuing a lighter, improved Enhanced Combat Helmet to deploying troops, the service is beginning a process to get the helmet into the hands of every Marine.

The Marine Corps just awarded a $51 million contract to issue every Marine the Enhanced Combat Helmet, Marine Corps Systems Command announced on June 9. Currently, only Marines shipping out on a ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M announced today its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ceradyne, Inc., has been issued an $80 million delivery order with the United States government to supply 77,000 ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, May 1, 2009) - The Army has issued a recall of 34,218 Advanced Combat Helmets which failed ballistic tests. The recall affects 15,380 Army helmets, 12,000 Air Force ...

Max Pro-Police & Armor offers composite combat helmets that weigh up to 10 percent less than available ACH (Advanced Combat Helmet)-grade helmets. The Combat Ballistic Helmet is molded out of ...

The company paid settlement to avoid prosecution. A paratrooper of the US Company D of the 1st Battalion "Red Falcons" holds his M4A1 carabine as his fellow soldiers knock on a gate during a knock and ...

Minneapolis — 3M Co. has introduced a new combat helmet designed to help soldiers survive an expanded number of ballistic threats during combat. It’s part of an effort to produce the next level of ...

Thousands of combat helmets made for the U.S. military by prisoners and paid for by the government were defective, putting service members — including some in Afghanistan — at risk, according to a ...