Iraqi Tanker helmet

complete with all the bells and whistles !!

Not sure of the country of origin.

Looks like Soviet. But pads on the head is not so thick, like Soviet.
Pavel.

Not sure but did Iraq itself manufacture these? They had quite the industrial complex. My money is on Russian/Soviet.

I will take pictures of the stamp , there is no OTK stamp anywhere .

Here are the only markings on the whole thing , all the electronics are sterile no marks at all.
Maybe your on to something with the Czech thing Arch !

Hmm, never seen before something like this.
Pavel.

Looks like a standard issue warsaw pact tankers helmet to me. I've got one just like it came from Finland.

Chris

Looks like a standard issue warsaw pact tankers helmet to me. I've got one just like it came from Finland.

Chris

Does yours have the same type of stamp as this one ?

Its Polish tankers helmet/cap Polish name "hełmofon". Winter version.

Link to allegro:

http://allegro.pl/helmofon-czolgowy-zimowy-nowy-i1884160750.html

Thank you Duncan !!! Perfect !!!

And for Russian it's called "shlemofon"
Pavel.

I'll dig it out. and check

Chris

panzerwerk wrote:

Looks like a standard issue warsaw pact tankers helmet to me. I've got one just like it came from Finland.

Chris

Does yours have the same type of stamp as this one ?

Just checked, mine has the rectangular box stamp type label with cyrillic characters. My guess is your helmet is one of the warsaw pact countries that uses english style letters, I note the manuf date is 1980, but also note that the english style letters are part of your marking, that would seem unlikely for the iraqis to not use arabic. Additionally I'm curious that for the most part, does iraq have a climate that calls for a fur lined winter helmet which is what this is?
Just speculation on my part.
Chris

zvez wrote:I'll dig it out. and check

Chris

panzerwerk wrote:

Looks like a standard issue warsaw pact tankers helmet to me. I've got one just like it came from Finland.

Chris

Does yours have the same type of stamp as this one ?

Chris - I write about this stuff some posts before - it's Polish tankers helmet/cap. Winter version

Just checked, mine has the rectangular box stamp type label with cyrillic characters. My guess is your helmet is one of the warsaw pact countries that uses english style letters, I note the manuf date is 1980, but also note that the english style letters are part of your marking, that would seem unlikely for the iraqis to not use arabic. Additionally I'm curious that for the most part, does iraq have a climate that calls for a fur lined winter helmet which is what this is?
Just speculation on my part.
Chris

Iraq used items purchased from around the world , this helmet came from Iraq ,captured by a friend of mine who was there, yes they wore whatever version they had on hand and bought from many countries , this case , Poland .

Don't doubt that in the least. I guess I misunderstood and thought the belief was this was an iraqi made helmet.

Chris

panzerwerk wrote:

Just checked, mine has the rectangular box stamp type label with cyrillic characters. My guess is your helmet is one of the warsaw pact countries that uses english style letters, I note the manuf date is 1980, but also note that the english style letters are part of your marking, that would seem unlikely for the iraqis to not use arabic. Additionally I'm curious that for the most part, does iraq have a climate that calls for a fur lined winter helmet which is what this is?
Just speculation on my part.
Chris

Iraq used items purchased from around the world , this helmet came from Iraq ,captured by a friend of mine who was there, yes they wore whatever version they had on hand and bought from many countries , this case , Poland .

zvez wrote:Just checked, mine has the rectangular box stamp type label with cyrillic characters. My guess is your helmet is one of the warsaw pact countries that uses english style letters, I note the manuf date is 1980, but also note that the english style letters are part of your marking, that would seem unlikely for the iraqis to not use arabic. Additionally I'm curious that for the most part, does iraq have a climate that calls for a fur lined winter helmet which is what this is?
Just speculation on my part.
Chris

zvez wrote:I'll dig it out. and check

Chris

panzerwerk wrote:

Looks like a standard issue warsaw pact tankers helmet to me. I've got one just like it came from Finland.

Chris

Does yours have the same type of stamp as this one ?

I've frozen my arse off over there enough times that I'd say yes. Cold is a relative term. When you're miserable and no way to warm up, 40 degrees farenheight can be cold. I've had it snow on me a couple of times there (Tikrit) and guys up north near Turkey have been hit by blizzards while on convoy support.