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can an army helmet stop a bullet?
Conventional Army steel helmet were designed to protect from flying fragments of exploded ordnance.
Today's militaries often use high-quality helmets made of ballistic materials such as Kevlar, which have excellent bullet and fragmentation stopping power.
Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops, sometimes abbreviated to PASGT, is a helmet and ballistic vest used by the American military since the early 1980s and used for 20 years until the system was succeeded in the early 2000s by the MICH TC-2000 Combat Helmet and Interceptor body armor.
The PASGT Helmet is said to have stopped rifle rounds on occasion, most commonly 7.62 x 39 mm (AK-47) rounds (in one account the PASGT Helmet is credited with stopping an AK-47 round from approximately 25 meters range)[citation needed]. This performance would be closer to Level III or Level IV performance, though in a demonstration of the Heckler & Koch MP7 on the Discovery Channel show Future Weapons, a PASGT helmet suffered a catastrophic armor penetration when hit head-on with one round of the MP7's 4.6 x 30 mm ammunition.
