There 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 · 9 hours ago

There 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?

@lordnikon · edit-2 8 hours ago

Helmets work better now than back then. Go to the VA you will see lots of traumatic brain injury vs before they would have just been in a body bag. Also movie vs real life. In real life there are worse things than death down range.

Also helmets now focus more on shrapnel than bullets since. You are more likely to be taken out by IED or artillery than a snipers bullet and if you are no armor is stopping that.