GregPickersgill wrote:Wolverine wrote:The liner appears to be green plastic, so it is probably some type of foreign clone. The chin-strap also looks to be a clone. I would guess that someone recognized it for what it was (ie, some obscure clone version of the M1), and bid accordingly.
Well, they know more than I do then, and I'm usually pretty good on M1 clones. I was specifically looking for clues in that direction and found none. It certainly isn't one of the European M1s, nor is it obviously Japanese, Singaporean, or anything else I know about. But then there's always more... I remain keen to learn, so if anyone can suggest anything more I'd be delighted to know. Its the detective stories that keep helmet-collecting interesting.
(The green plastic liner - which seems a very bright green - would usually imply a Danish-made Dansk Kunstoffindustrie liner, but neither the Danes nor Norwegians used that type of interleaved liner cradle, sticking with the original Riddel type of three loops tied with a bootlace or whatever).
czech vz 53,modernised in UN blue 
late 1970's mig fighter jet helmet 
polish army maskpol 2000 with pantera cover 
you scored really well with the m1 and glad you did ,imagine owning an original m1c you lucky so and so ,i had to make do with the nam version ,cherish it and also try to reunite with the correct liner ,nice one my friend thunderchild wrote:hi richard ,yes the mig helm probably was the same one and also had to call it a day branching out ,but as ive always wanted an example couldn't resist ,why im more drawn to soviet helmet's as opposed to nato i havent a clue but the majority of my helmet collection is soviet or warsaw pact ,read into that what you will
thunderchild wrote:good stuff richard ,yes its nice to have a few favorites without totally committing to collecting the whole lot . the high allitutude sounds like a chinese version ,well going off what is on my favorite list anyroad ,but im sure worth a bid as it will be genuine and not just a copy knocked up in some back street
Thibir wrote:Slovak army currently uses Rabintex RBH 303 AU (I don't know what that AU stands for but I would say it is just slightly modified version of the same helmet). Maybe we used also this model. But I doubt it was issued in Slovak army in 2006 as your helmet says.
Gulf91 wrote:Any ideas please what country used this?
loski wrote:Gulf91 wrote:Any ideas please what country used this?
Hi Gulf Israiel exports to quite a few countries yours could be one supplied to a prospective export customer as a sample for trials.
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