Talk:SPECTRA helmet

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Article rethinking?[edit]

This looks like a mess of an article. I don’t often like to be negative of wiki articles, simply because I like wiki too much :), but this article needs a rethinking and rewriting.

There is no such thing as a “Spectra helmet”. It is a generic term and it makes little sense to loop all Spectra helmets, of both radical different designs, characteristic, make, model and use, into one article. It would be the same as looping all steel helmets into one article, or all cars (regardless of make or model) into one article.

Now one could write an article about “MSA Gallet Spectra helmets for military use”, that would make sense, and also limited the number of variants one had to write about. Right now the article interspread data from no less than 3 different variants of MSA Gallet military helmets, and does not at any moment make it clear that these are vastly different helmets, in both design, specifications and characteristic, not to talk about who uses them and what they are used for. There is also an increasing large number of civilian “Spectra helmets”. Twthmoses 20:49, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The MSA links mention the helmets as Aramid. Spectra is not an aramid

Merging with Combat Helmet TC "D"[edit]

There is not much difference between this article and the article on Combat Helmet TC "D". I propose a merger. Boreanesia 08:39, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~In process of merging, please refrain from editing.~~ Angelbo ^{Talk / Contribs} 07:40, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge completed Angelbo ^{Talk / Contribs} 08:04, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removed picture[edit]

I removed the so-called "paratrooper version" of the SPECTRA helmet (Image:Casque-SPECTRA-para-img 1027.jpg|Paratrooper version) as it's no SPECTRA but rather standard-issue F1 steel helmet. breversa 07:28, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Modèle 1978, I think. Thank you for the correction. Rama (talk) 12:57, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bam![edit]

"SPECTRA helmet is capable of stopping shrapnel of 1.1 g at 680 m/s (2,230 ft/s)"? At what distance?! (I have a hunch it's not 0m...) Trekphiler (talk) 00:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Isnt the 680m/s speed on impact?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.125.28.42 (talk) 08:04, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dyneema?[edit]

I thought dyneema was from dsm and doesnt have anything to do with honeywell's spectra. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.205.71.76 (talk) 12:59, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Stationed" in not neutral[edit]

"Spectra helmet used by the military of Denmark stationed in Iraq" is not neutral. Danish soldiers were a military occupation force, present in the country after an invasion rather than invited by the local government, and carrying missions to maintain order, rather than leaving this to indigenous forces. "Occupation" is a neutral term, used notably about Germany after 1945; it does not imply that the occupying power is "the baddies". On the other hand, "stationed" does not reflect the reality of the presence of foreign troops in Iraq. Rama (talk) 15:08, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]