Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 11 months agoThere is a scene in Saving Private Ryan where a soldier gets shot in the helmet and it bounces off. Now a days soldiers seem to get shot in the helmet and it goes right thru. How come and why?message-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down13
arrow-up125arrow-down1message-squareThere is a scene in Saving Private Ryan where a soldier gets shot in the helmet and it bounces off. Now a days soldiers seem to get shot in the helmet and it goes right thru. How come and why?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareSolOrion@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14·11 months agoSurviving a headshot isn’t particularly likely in any scenario. Helmets are more to stop shrapnel, glancing blows, and- depending on the helmet- maybe pistol rounds. Realistically, a helmet just isn’t stopping a direct shot with a rifle round.
Surviving a headshot isn’t particularly likely in any scenario. Helmets are more to stop shrapnel, glancing blows, and- depending on the helmet- maybe pistol rounds. Realistically, a helmet just isn’t stopping a direct shot with a rifle round.