How It Is Made Making Ballistic Helmets

How It Is Made: Making Ballistic Helmets

What we will cover:

1. 10 Facts about making and manufacturing ballistic helmets.
2. How to make a bulletproof helmet?
3. What are bulletproof helmets made of?
4. Kevlar helmets compared to UHMWPE helmets.
5. Measuring ballistic helmet performance.
6. How Atomic Defense can help.

How to Make a Bulletproof Helmet?

Compression/stamping molding is the manufacturing process typically used to make aramid fiber helmets. This involves taking a stack of aramid sheets or fabric layers and setting them into a male-female-matched metal die set.

The hydraulic pressure applied in this manufacturing process can range from 300 psi upwards to 500 psi, with temperatures around 340 degrees F usually required for 12-15 minutes for one phenolic PASGT helmet.