During last week’s Enforce Tac show in Nürnberg, Germany, head protection specialist SCHUBERTH GmbH from Magdeburg showed new accessories for its M100 ballistic helmet consisting of a new ballistic mandible with an improved protection level and a modular battery pack.
Milad Youkhanna, Head of Military & Law Enforcement, explains: “When working on our new battery pack, we had the current challenges and the above-average functionality of the M100 helmet in mind. In conjunction with the SCHUBERTH Extended Connection Devices (ECD), already successfully in use with our customers, the goal is to further improve the helmet-borne energy supply. Thanks to its flexible design, the battery pack can accommodate a wide variety of power sources and is therefore not only compatible with the existing systems, but also ready for the battery technology to be integrated in the future. If the power supply is integrated directly into the NVG mounted on the front of the helmet, the battery pack can also be used to hold the various counterweights, which would otherwise have no function.”
The new mandible extends the ballistic coverage of the M100 with an above-average protection. The model presented last year with a combined protection level of NIJ IIIA and VPAM 2, respectively a V50 value according to STANAG 2920 of over 700 m/s, is followed by the new VPAM 3 level mandible. The new mandible is also compatible with the lightweight fragmentation protection visor and thus provides complete coverage of the face. In addition, the VPAM 3 Mandible can also be combined with a ballistic visor of the same protection class.
