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• Modular Design: Three interlocking segments allow users to customize length and coverage, easily selecting one, two, or all three panels according to mission requirements.
• Articulating Structure: Segments smoothly articulate, maintaining optimal coverage while preserving full head mobility and comfort in various combat postures.
• Robust Ballistic Protection: Rated for protection against 124-grain 9mm FMJ projectiles at velocities exceeding 1400 fps (V0).
• Rapid Attachment: Quickly and securely mounts to existing helmet retention points -- no additional hardware or helmet modifications required.
• Compatibility: Fully integrates with both ACH-style and high-cut NovaSteel helmets.

NovaSteel Helmets and accessories are typically in stock and ready to ship within 0–2 weeks.

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HELMET TAIL

Novasteel Lobster-Tail

Ballistic Helmet Nape Protection

Helmet tail
Helmet tail

Though modern combat helmets provide significant head protection, multiple studies have shown the rear head and neck remain disproportionately vulnerable, especially in contemporary conflicts where fragmentation from explosives is the dominant cause of battlefield injuries. Data from recent military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan indicate that head and neck injuries now account for up to 39% of all combat-related trauma. Critically, wounds to the back of the head and neck have significantly increased, primarily due to explosive fragmentation bypassing existing armor, which emphasizes a clear need for enhanced coverage in these areas.

The NovaSteel Ballistic Helmet Tail addresses this vulnerability directly — with an innovative, modular, and articulating design. Comprising three durable and interlocking segments, the Helmet Tail allows soldiers and tactical operators to precisely customize their protective coverage according to specific operational conditions, terrain, and anticipated threats.

In riot control scenarios, the NovaSteel Lobster-Tail offers specialized advantages drawn from historical precedent. Soldiers historically wore helmets with segmented “lobster-tail” nape armor to protect themselves from melee strikes and projectiles commonly encountered in close-quarter, chaotic combat situations. Similarly, riot control officers face projectiles, thrown objects, and blunt-force impacts, often from above or behind, in densely crowded, dynamic environments. The articulated segments of the NovaSteel Lobster-Tail effectively absorb and deflect impacts from thrown objects, batons, bricks, bottles, or improvised weapons aimed at vulnerable neck and cervical regions. This specialized design ensures officers remain protected during crowd engagements, significantly enhancing safety and operational confidence without restricting mobility or visibility.

Helmet tail
Helmet tail

Functional Overview

Key Advantages:

Customizable Protection:

Users can easily configure the NovaSteel Lobster-Tail by employing one, two, or all three armor segments—providing scalable ballistic coverage exactly as required by mission profile and threat environment.

Articulated Flexibility:

Each segment moves independently, ensuring continuous coverage without impeding essential head movements or comfort. Operators can freely maneuver, assume prone positions, or quickly engage targets without interference.

Rapid Deployment:

Secure attachment via standard retention points ensures stable mounting, even under dynamic or high-stress conditions, without additional components or complicated installation procedures.

Blunt impacts:

Unlike traditional fabric neck protectors, the rigid NovaSteel segments provide consistently reliable ballistic protection without shifting, folding, absorbing sweat, or slipping during rigorous use.

Operational Compatibility:

Seamlessly integrates with standard communication headsets, eyewear, and other helmet-mounted accessories without reducing usability or performance. Indeed, it works well as a counterweight.

Helmet tail

The NovaSteel Lobster-Tail reliably surpasses ballistic performance criteria established by ACH and VPAM-3 standards, consistently demonstrating minimal backface deformation (BFD), exceptional edge-impact resilience, and reliable performance in high-temperature conditions exceeding 168°F.

Simply put, the NovaSteel Ballistic Lobster-Tail offers adaptable, evidence-based protection precisely where it matters most — ensuring uncompromised effectiveness in diverse tactical situations.

  • TYPE

    Ballistic Helmet Tail – Modular Helmet Accessory

    An articulating, multi-segmented armor module specifically engineered to enhance ballistic protection of the rear head and neck region on the NovaSteel ballistic helmet. Provides critical protection from fragmentation, handgun projectiles, and blunt-force trauma.

  • RATING:

    ACH & ACH-Gen II Helmet Specification

    The NovaSteel Lobster-Tail comfortably exceeds ACH and ACH Gen II performance standards, reliably stopping threats including 9mm FMJ projectiles at velocities over 1400 fps. Blunt impact resistance and backface deformation results consistently outperform military specifications.

  • RATING:

    VPAM-3 Helmet Specification

    Although no VPAM-specific protocol exists for rear-mounted helmet attachments, the NovaSteel Lobster-Tail closely aligns with VPAM-3 requirements. It demonstrates robust ballistic protection, minimal BFD, superior edge-impact performance, and exceptional durability even at elevated temperatures (168°F and beyond).

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]]> NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH https://www.staging.ade.pt/product/novasteel-helmet-ach/ Thu, 10 Jun 2021 23:56:04 +0000 https://staging.ade.pt/?post_type=product&p=7184 ACH helmet

• The Steel Helmet - Evolved
• Ballistic performance:  VPAM-3 + special threats
• Minimal BFD and trauma - best-in-class performance
• Extreme environmental stability - best-in-class shelf-life
• Ultra durable - capable of sustaining tremendous damage before form or function are compromised
• Protection from rim to rim
• Developed with comfort and balance in mind
• Modular design
• The world’s toughest ballistic helmet

The NovaSteel™ helmet is the original steel helmet, and Adept is the original producer of these helmets.  Now, offered in two sizes and with numerous accessories forthcoming.

NovaSteel Helmets and accessories are generally in stock and ship within 0-2 weeks. 

The ACH-style helmet is compatible with the new Flip-Up Mandible, but is incompatible with the Gen 1 Mandible.

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ACH HELMET – NOVASTEEL™
The world’s toughest ballistic helmet

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH
NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

The Steel Helmet – Evolved

The steel pot.  Immediately recognizable.  A visual representation of the American fighting man, as seen on marketing and recruiting materials the world over.  Millions of M1 helmets were produced, and they were the standard-issue helmet for US military forces from the World War Era until 1983.  The M1 has been described as the most successful helmet of all time, given its service history spanning decades.  

In light of this, it may be surprising to note that the metallurgy behind the M1 helmet dates back over one hundred years, and was never improved.  The M1 is made from Hadfield Steel — an inferior armor alloy that first saw use in the early days of World War One.  As far back as 1917, United States manufacturers had attempted to produce helmets from high-hardness chrome-nickel-vanadium steel.  Unfortunately, these methods met with failure; the steel was too difficult to form with the means available at the time, and inevitably cracked during the stamping operation.  The US had to resort to helmets of Hadfield’s high-manganese steel simply on account of the fact that it could be made cheaply and rapidly with that era’s methods of production. 

So Hadfield Steel wasn’t even the best ballistic steel of 1917, to say nothing of today.  For reasons that doubtless have much to do with institutional inertia, and which have nothing to do with steel’s merits as an armor material, the M1 was made of Hadfield Steel until the day it was discarded in favor of Kevlar.

Advances in steel processing technologies may have just turned the tables.  The NovaSteel™ helmet is made of a vastly stronger alloy.  It was built to withstand all of today’s threats.  It is more comfortable, more modular, and more adaptable.  It is a thoroughly modern ACH ballistic helmet, with the pedigree of steel, and performance that is in many respects the best available anywhere.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is the M1, evolved. 

It is time for steel to retake its position as the helmet material of choice.

The Combat Circlet

Encircling the helmet, the Combat Circlet is an ideal mounting platform for NVGs and other headborne accessories. Mounted securely to the four retention-system holes on the helmet, it provides:

• An NVG bracket which requires no holes drilled into the front of the helmet, and bungee cord ports for stabilization and NVG retention.
• M-Lok side rails that accept accessories directly, and can also be used as a platform for Picatinny adapters.
• A vertical crest for more stability, and more accessory-mounting real estate. There are numerous modules in development for the crest, including applique blast protection, and an applique ghille module.
• A rear tie-down bar for enhanced stability, with or without a counterweight.
• Clean routing points for external wires and cables.
• Direct integration with the Face Protector.

The Combat Circlet is manufactured out of tough glass-filled polymer via advanced additive manufacturing techniques. It weighs just two ounces, but is impressively strong and resilient. Like the NeoSteel helmet, it’ll serve you well for years to come.

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

Ballistic Performance

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is fully VPAM 3 compliant, and is capable of stopping a wide variety of potent special threats, including:

• 7.62x25mm Tokarev at 1650 feet per second.

• 5.7x28mm ball rounds at over 2000 feet per second.

• 9x19mm 80gr. solid copper spun (SCS) rounds at carbine velocities.

And more.  In every case, backface deformation is minimal.

The NovaSteel™ ACH Helmet also boasts good performance against fragmentation threats, with performance comparable to aramid helmets such as the PASGT. The M1 had a V50 well under 1000 feet per second, and modern European metal helmets have a V50 against the same threat of just 986 feet per second.

Behind armor blunt trauma and head/neck acceleration

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

The NovaSteel™ is the best ACH helmet to use if you’re concerned about behind armor trauma.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is not capable of significant backface deformation, and its stiff shell spreads the kinetic energy load of a projectile impact across the entire padding system.

In contrast, with a lightweight composite helmet, backface deformation is a real concern, and is associated with injuries up to and including skull fracture.

In any case, with either helmet, neck injuries resulting from head acceleration are very unlikely. A report by the Committee on Testing of Body Armor Materials for Use by the U.S. Army has examined the transfer of momentum in ballistic head impacts, and estimates that there’s a less than 0.1% chance of neck injury following small arms helmet impacts, up to and including 7.62x51mm rifle round impacts. This has been corroborated in tests performed by other labs.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet doesn’t only exhibit good ballistic performance – it does so in a way that poses effectively no risk of blunt impact injury to the helmet wearer. It won’t just keep you alive; it’ll enable you to return fire. No other helmet can say the same.

Further, TBI has been called “the signature injury of modern warfare,” and its emergence over the course of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has revealed that there are injuries that current helmets have not been designed to protect against. Helmets must continue to evolve to address today’s threats. The NovaSteel™ Helmet’s ultra-rigid shell and industry-leading padding system ensure extremely good blunt impact and blast protection. The NovaSteel™ Helmet may be a key component in the ongoing fight against blast-induced TBI.

Blunt Impact Performance

The NovaSteel™ helmet exceeds ACH blunt impact performance standards by nearly 50%.

The NovaSteel™ was tested at NTS-Chesapeake in accordance with the blunt impact testing procedure of AR/PD 10-02 Rev A Change 7 (the latest ACH and ACH Gen-2 blunt impact performance specification).  It was shown to provide excellent impact protection, achieving an average headform acceleration of 78.5 G, vs. maximum acceleration of 150 G, as shown in the test report.

TEST REPORT
NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

Environmental stability 

The functional lifespans of composite helmets are unknown, and for this reason they are typically sold with short warranty periods.  The NovaSteel™ Helmet, in contrast, has an indefinite service lifespan.  If its handled and stored with reasonable care, it’ll maintain its full protective ability for many decades.  It is nearly or completely impervious to cold, chemical exposure, solvent exposure, UV radiation exposure, and structural loading.  Its heat resistance is substantially superior to polyethylene-based helmets; it has been tested to against steel-jacketed 9mm rounds, at over 1400 feet per second, immediately following 12 hours of conditioning at 100°C.  Even under such conditions, it did not allow penetration and did not exhibit excess backface deformation.

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

Damage tolerance

Composite helmets must be immediately replaced after a single impact, for they will have delaminated and will not continue to exhibit good overall performance; they may even be impossible to wear comfortably, on account of permanent shell deformation.  The NovaSteel™ Helmet, like the steel helmets of old, can remain in emergency battlefield service after sustaining impacts.  For permanent damage to the shell is sure be slight, and should not meaningfully compromise future performance.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet can sustain tremendous damage before its form or function are compromised, and this battlefield durability makes it extremely well-suited for use by regular and light infantry forces.

With The NovaSteel™ Helmet, you can forget about
replacing your helmet every five years.

Edge-to-edge Protection

Composite helmets offer little protection around their rims; hits near the helmet edge can cause the ballistic material to roll, resulting in penetrations or excessive trauma.  For this reason, the ACH spec has always included this terminology on fair hits:  “An impact resulting in a complete penetration shall be considered unfair if it is within 1.5-inches of another impact, within 1.5-inches of the closest edge of any hole, within 1.0-inch of the edge of the helmet.“  

On the streets and in the field, not all shots are fair.  But the NovaSteel™ Helmet has you covered: It offers full edge-to-edge protection – which vastly increases its area of protective coverage.  A leading competitor’s helmet offers 136 square inches of coverage in a size L – but the stated protective area of that helmet is under 90 square inches.  The steel helmet offers well over 110 square inches of real protection.

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

Comfort and balance

As the steel helmet is not capable of significant deformation upon impact, thick pads are not required, and the standoff distance between the helmet and the head is reduced.  Additionally, the shell is up to six times thinner than standard aramid or UHMWPE helmets.  Ultimately, this makes for a more streamlined helmet, a better-balanced helmet, and a lower-profile target.  Furthermore, the retention system developed by Adept offers real adjustability and stability, without ratchets or other mechanical parts that may break if handled roughly.

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

Modularity

A broad array of accessories are available or in development:

• NVG shroud
• M-Lok side rails
• Ballistic mandible
• Ballistic visor
• Blast liner set
• Rifle-rated ballistic applique

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is a platform, designed to be extremely customizable.

The World’s Toughest Ballistic Helmet

 

The NovaSteel™ Helmet steel helmet boasts traits that cannot be matched by any other combat helmet.  Incomparable toughness.  Near-zero shell deformation upon impact.  Excellent performance against high-velocity special threats.  A top-tier padding system.  A pedigree that hearkens back to previous generations of the American fighting man.  A price affordable for large-scale military procurement.

Several patents pending.  The NovaSteel ACH helmet is the first and the definitive modern steel ballistic combat helmet.

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

Ballistic performance:

VPAM-3 + special threats

Minimal BFD and trauma

Best-in-class performance

Extreme environmental stability

Best-in-class shelf-life

Modular

Modular design

Ultra durable

Capable of sustaining tremendous damage before form or function are compromised

Protection

 From rim to rim

Developed

With comfort and balance in mind

The world’s toughest

combat helmet

“Please contact us for international order inquiries.”

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ACH HELMET – NOVASTEEL™
The world’s toughest ballistic helmet

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH
NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

The Steel Helmet – Evolved

The steel pot.  Immediately recognizable.  A visual representation of the American fighting man, as seen on marketing and recruiting materials the world over.  Millions of M1 helmets were produced, and they were the standard-issue helmet for US military forces from the World War Era until 1983.  The M1 has been described as the most successful helmet of all time, given its service history spanning decades.  

In light of this, it may be surprising to note that the metallurgy behind the M1 helmet dates back over one hundred years, and was never improved.  The M1 is made from Hadfield Steel — an inferior armor alloy that first saw use in the early days of World War One.  As far back as 1917, United States manufacturers had attempted to produce helmets from high-hardness chrome-nickel-vanadium steel.  Unfortunately, these methods met with failure; the steel was too difficult to form with the means available at the time, and inevitably cracked during the stamping operation.  The US had to resort to helmets of Hadfield’s high-manganese steel simply on account of the fact that it could be made cheaply and rapidly with that era’s methods of production. 

So Hadfield Steel wasn’t even the best ballistic steel of 1917, to say nothing of today.  For reasons that doubtless have much to do with institutional inertia, and which have nothing to do with steel’s merits as an armor material, the M1 was made of Hadfield Steel until the day it was discarded in favor of Kevlar.

Advances in steel processing technologies may have just turned the tables.  The NovaSteel™ helmet is made of a vastly stronger alloy.  It was built to withstand all of today’s threats.  It is more comfortable, more modular, and more adaptable.  It is a thoroughly modern ACH ballistic helmet, with the pedigree of steel, and performance that is in many respects the best available anywhere.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is the M1, evolved. 

It is time for steel to retake its position as the helmet material of choice.

The Combat Circlet

Encircling the helmet, the Combat Circlet is an ideal mounting platform for NVGs and other headborne accessories. Mounted securely to the four retention-system holes on the helmet, it provides:

• An NVG bracket which requires no holes drilled into the front of the helmet, and bungee cord ports for stabilization and NVG retention.
• M-Lok side rails that accept accessories directly, and can also be used as a platform for Picatinny adapters.
• A vertical crest for more stability, and more accessory-mounting real estate. There are numerous modules in development for the crest, including applique blast protection, and an applique ghille module.
• A rear tie-down bar for enhanced stability, with or without a counterweight.
• Clean routing points for external wires and cables.
• Direct integration with the Face Protector.

The Combat Circlet is manufactured out of tough glass-filled polymer via advanced additive manufacturing techniques. It weighs just two ounces, but is impressively strong and resilient. Like the NovaSteel helmet, it’ll serve you well for years to come.

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

Ballistic Performance

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is fully VPAM 3 compliant, and is capable of stopping a wide variety of potent special threats, including:

• 7.62x25mm Tokarev at 1650 feet per second.

• 5.7x28mm ball rounds at over 2000 feet per second.

• 9x19mm 80gr. solid copper spun (SCS) rounds at carbine velocities.

And more.  In every case, backface deformation is minimal.

The NovaSteel™ ACH Helmet also boasts good performance against fragmentation threats, with performance comparable to aramid helmets such as the PASGT. The M1 had a V50 well under 1000 feet per second, and modern European metal helmets have a V50 against the same threat of just 986 feet per second.

Behind armor blunt trauma and head/neck acceleration

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

The NovaSteel™ is the best ACH helmet to use if you’re concerned about behind armor trauma.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is not capable of significant backface deformation, and its stiff shell spreads the kinetic energy load of a projectile impact across the entire padding system.

In contrast, with a lightweight composite helmet, backface deformation is a real concern, and is associated with injuries up to and including skull fracture.

In any case, with either helmet, neck injuries resulting from head acceleration are very unlikely. A report by the Committee on Testing of Body Armor Materials for Use by the U.S. Army has examined the transfer of momentum in ballistic head impacts, and estimates that there’s a less than 0.1% chance of neck injury following small arms helmet impacts, up to and including 7.62x51mm rifle round impacts. This has been corroborated in tests performed by other labs.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet doesn’t only exhibit good ballistic performance – it does so in a way that poses effectively no risk of blunt impact injury to the helmet wearer. It won’t just keep you alive; it’ll enable you to return fire. No other helmet can say the same.

Further, TBI has been called “the signature injury of modern warfare,” and its emergence over the course of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has revealed that there are injuries that current helmets have not been designed to protect against. Helmets must continue to evolve to address today’s threats. The NovaSteel™ Helmet’s ultra-rigid shell and industry-leading padding system ensure extremely good blunt impact and blast protection. The NovaSteel™ Helmet may be a key component in the ongoing fight against blast-induced TBI.

Blunt Impact Performance

The NovaSteel™ helmet exceeds ACH blunt impact performance standards by nearly 50%.

The NovaSteel™ was tested at NTS-Chesapeake in accordance with the blunt impact testing procedure of AR/PD 10-02 Rev A Change 7 (the latest ACH and ACH Gen-2 blunt impact performance specification).  It was shown to provide excellent impact protection, achieving an average headform acceleration of 78.5 G, vs. maximum acceleration of 150 G, as shown in the test report.

TEST REPORT
NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

Environmental stability 

The functional lifespans of composite helmets are unknown, and for this reason they are typically sold with short warranty periods.  The NovaSteel™ Helmet, in contrast, has an indefinite service lifespan.  If its handled and stored with reasonable care, it’ll maintain its full protective ability for many decades.  It is nearly or completely impervious to cold, chemical exposure, solvent exposure, UV radiation exposure, and structural loading.  Its heat resistance is substantially superior to polyethylene-based helmets; it has been tested to against steel-jacketed 9mm rounds, at over 1400 feet per second, immediately following 12 hours of conditioning at 100°C.  Even under such conditions, it did not allow penetration and did not exhibit excess backface deformation.

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

Damage tolerance

Composite helmets must be immediately replaced after a single impact, for they will have delaminated and will not continue to exhibit good overall performance; they may even be impossible to wear comfortably, on account of permanent shell deformation.  The NovaSteel™ Helmet, like the steel helmets of old, can remain in emergency battlefield service after sustaining impacts.  For permanent damage to the shell is sure be slight, and should not meaningfully compromise future performance.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet can sustain tremendous damage before its form or function are compromised, and this battlefield durability makes it extremely well-suited for use by regular and light infantry forces.

With The NovaSteel™ Helmet, you can forget about replacing your helmet every five years.

Edge-to-edge Protection

Composite helmets offer little protection around their rims; hits near the helmet edge can cause the ballistic material to roll, resulting in penetrations or excessive trauma.  For this reason, the ACH spec has always included this terminology on fair hits:  “An impact resulting in a complete penetration shall be considered unfair if it is within 1.5-inches of another impact, within 1.5-inches of the closest edge of any hole, within 1.0-inch of the edge of the helmet.“  

On the streets and in the field, not all shots are fair.  But the NovaSteel™ Helmet has you covered: It offers full edge-to-edge protection – which vastly increases its area of protective coverage.  A leading competitor’s helmet offers 136 square inches of coverage in a size L – but the stated protective area of that helmet is under 90 square inches.  The steel helmet offers well over 110 square inches of real protection.

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

Comfort and balance

As the steel helmet is not capable of significant deformation upon impact, thick pads are not required, and the standoff distance between the helmet and the head is reduced.  Additionally, the shell is up to six times thinner than standard aramid or UHMWPE helmets.  Ultimately, this makes for a more streamlined helmet, a better-balanced helmet, and a lower-profile target.  Furthermore, the retention system developed by Adept offers real adjustability and stability, without ratchets or other mechanical parts that may break if handled roughly.

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

Modularity

A broad array of accessories are available or in development:

• NVG shroud
• M-Lok side rails
• Ballistic mandible
• Ballistic visor
• Blast liner set
• Rifle-rated ballistic applique

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is a platform, designed to be extremely customizable.

The World’s Toughest Ballistic Helmet

 

The NovaSteel™ Helmet steel helmet boasts traits that cannot be matched by any other combat helmet.  Incomparable toughness.  Near-zero shell deformation upon impact.  Excellent performance against high-velocity special threats.  A top-tier padding system.  A pedigree that hearkens back to previous generations of the American fighting man.  A price affordable for large-scale military procurement.

Several patents pending.  The NovaSteel ACH helmet is the first and the definitive modern steel ballistic combat helmet.

NovaSteel™ Helmet – ACH

“Please contact us for international order inquiries.”

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]]> NovaSteel™ Helmet – High Cut https://www.staging.ade.pt/product/novasteel-helmet-high-cut/ Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:56:24 +0000 https://staging.ade.pt/?post_type=product&p=7182 novasteel helmet circlet

• The Steel Helmet, Evolved: Advanced ballistic steel. Modern high-cut design. Built on the legacy of the M1.
• VPAM-3 + Special Threats: Stops 7.62×25 Tokarev, 5.7×28 ball, and 9mm SCS at carbine velocities.
• Near-Zero Backface Deformation: Sub-5mm BFD vs. 9mm FMJ. Half to a quarter of what composite helmets produce.
• Indefinite Service Life: Impervious to UV, solvents, and temperature extremes. No five-year replacement cycle.
• Multi-Hit Durability: Stays functional after impacts that would retire a composite helmet.
• True Edge-to-Edge Protection: Full protective coverage to the rim. No edge vulnerability.
• Low Profile, Balanced Fit: Shell up to 6× thinner than composite alternatives.
• Modular Platform: Combat Circlet, two ballistic mandibles, and a growing accessory ecosystem.
• The World's Toughest Ballistic Helmet: Unmatched toughness, trauma reduction, and longevity, at a procurement-friendly price.
• Helmet depicted here with optional circlet, sold separately.

The NovaSteel™ helmet, the pioneer in steel helmet technology, is exclusively produced by Adept. It is now available in two sizes and will soon feature a range of additional accessories.

NovaSteel Helmets and accessories are typically in stock and ready to ship within 0-2 weeks. 

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Advanced Evolution of the Steel Helmet

The steel pot.  Immediately recognizable.  A visual representation of the American fighting man, as seen on marketing and recruiting materials the world over.  Millions of M1 helmets were produced, and they were the standard-issue helmet for US military forces from the World War Era until 1983.  The M1 has been described as the most successful helmet of all time, given its service history spanning decades.  

In light of this, it may be surprising to note that the metallurgy behind the M1 helmet dates back over one hundred years, and was never improved.  The M1 is made from Hadfield Steel — an inferior armor alloy that first saw use in the early days of World War One.  As far back as 1917, United States manufacturers had attempted to produce helmets from high-hardness chrome-nickel-vanadium steel.  Unfortunately, these methods met with failure; the steel was too difficult to form with the means available at the time, and inevitably cracked during the stamping operation.  The US had to resort to helmets of Hadfield’s high-manganese steel simply on account of the fact that it could be made cheaply and rapidly with that era’s methods of production. 

So Hadfield Steel wasn’t even the best ballistic steel of 1917, to say nothing of today.  For reasons that doubtless have much to do with institutional inertia, and which have nothing to do with steel’s merits as an armor material, the M1 was made of Hadfield Steel until the day it was discarded in favor of Kevlar.

Advances in steel processing technologies may have just turned the tables.  The NovaSteel™ helmet is made of a vastly stronger alloy.  It was built to withstand all of today’s threats.  It is more comfortable, more modular, and more adaptable.  It is a thoroughly modern high cut ballistic helmet, with the pedigree of steel, and performance that is in many respects the best available anywhere.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is the M1, evolved. 

It is time for steel to retake its position as the helmet material of choice.  

Ballistic helmet
ballistic helmet
ballistic helmet
Ballistic helmet

The Combat Circlet

Encircling the helmet, the Combat Circlet is an ideal mounting platform for NVGs and other headborne accessories. Mounted securely to the four retention-system holes on the helmet, it provides:

• An NVG bracket which requires no holes drilled into the front of the helmet, and bungee cord ports for stabilization and NVG retention.
• M-Lok side rails that accept accessories directly, and can also be used as a platform for Picatinny adapters.
• A vertical crest for more stability, and more accessory-mounting real estate. There are numerous modules in development for the crest, including applique blast protection, and an applique ghille module.
• A rear tie-down bar for enhanced stability, with or without a counterweight.
• Clean routing points for external wires and cables.
• Direct integration with the Face Protector.

The Combat Circlet is manufactured out of tough glass-filled polymer via advanced additive manufacturing techniques. It weighs just two ounces, but is impressively strong and resilient. Like the NovaSteel helmet, it’ll serve you well for years to come.

Face Protection Module

The NovaSteel Ventail offers enhanced protection from ballistic threats — covering the face, the side of the head, and a portion of the anterior neck. It also offers protection from blunt impact, blast overpressure, and debris. Mounts rapidly and securely to the helmet via the four retention system holes on the shell. Fully compatible with most ballistic glasses, the Ventail offers an unconstrained field of vision, and is significantly lighter and tougher than transparent ballistic visors.

NovaSteel™ Helmet – High Cut

Ballistic
Performance

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is fully VPAM 3 compliant, and is capable of stopping a wide variety of potent special threats, including:

• 7.62x25mm Tokarev at 1650 feet per second.

• 5.7x28mm ball rounds at over 2000 feet per second.

• 9x19mm 80gr. solid copper spun (SCS) rounds at carbine velocities.

And more.  In every case, backface deformation is minimal.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet also boasts good performance against fragmentation threats, with performance comparable to aramid helmets such as the PASGT. The M1 had a V50 well under 1000 feet per second, and modern European metal helmets have a V50 against the same threat of just 986 feet per second.

Behind armor blunt trauma and head/neck acceleration

NovaSteel™ Helmet – High Cut

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is the best ballistic helmet to use if you’re concerned about behind armor trauma.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is not capable of significant backface deformation, and its stiff shell spreads the kinetic energy load of a projectile impact across the entire padding system.

In contrast, with a lightweight composite helmet, backface deformation is a real concern, and is associated with injuries up to and including skull fracture.

In any case, with either helmet, neck injuries resulting from head acceleration are very unlikely. A report by the Committee on Testing of Body Armor Materials for Use by the U.S. Army has examined the transfer of momentum in ballistic head impacts, and estimates that there’s a less than 0.1% chance of neck injury following small arms helmet impacts, up to and including 7.62x51mm rifle round impacts. This has been corroborated in tests performed by other labs.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet doesn’t only exhibit good ballistic performance – it does so in a way that poses effectively no risk of blunt impact injury to the helmet wearer. It won’t just keep you alive; it’ll enable you to return fire. No other helmet can say the same.

Further, TBI has been called “the signature injury of modern warfare,” and its emergence over the course of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has revealed that there are injuries that current helmets have not been designed to protect against. Helmets must continue to evolve to address today’s threats. The NovaSteel™ Helmet’s ultra-rigid shell and industry-leading padding system ensure extremely good blunt impact and blast protection. The NovaSteel™ Helmet may be a key component in the ongoing fight against blast-induced TBI.

Blunt Impact Performance

The NovaSteel™ helmet exceeds ACH blunt impact performance standards by nearly 50%.

The NovaSteel™ was tested at NTS-Chesapeake in accordance with the blunt impact testing procedure of AR/PD 10-02 Rev A Change 7 (the latest ACH and ACH Gen-2 blunt impact performance specification).  It was shown to provide excellent impact protection, achieving an average headform acceleration of 78.5 G, vs. maximum acceleration of 150 G, as shown in the test report.

Test report:

Ballistic resistance test

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Operator’s guide

Setup / Usage Notes / Donning / Accessories

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Environmental stability 

The functional lifespans of composite helmets are unknown, and for this reason they are typically sold with short warranty periods.  The NovaSteel™ Helmet, in contrast, has an indefinite service lifespan.  If its handled and stored with reasonable care, it’ll maintain its full protective ability for many decades.  It is nearly or completely impervious to cold, chemical exposure, solvent exposure, UV radiation exposure, and structural loading.  Its heat resistance is substantially superior to polyethylene-based helmets; it has been tested to against steel-jacketed 9mm rounds, at over 1400 feet per second, immediately following 12 hours of conditioning at 100°C.  Even under such conditions, it did not allow penetration and did not exhibit excess backface deformation.

Damage tolerance

Composite helmets must be immediately replaced after a single impact, for they will have delaminated and will not continue to exhibit good overall performance; they may even be impossible to wear comfortably, on account of permanent shell deformation.  The NovaSteel™ Helmet, like the steel helmets of old, can remain in emergency battlefield service after sustaining impacts.  For permanent damage to the shell is sure be slight, and should not meaningfully compromise future performance.

The NovaSteel™ Helmet can sustain tremendous damage before its form or function are compromised, and this battlefield durability makes it extremely well-suited for use by regular and light infantry forces.

With The NovaSteel™ Helmet, you can forget about
replacing your helmet every five years.

Edge-to-edge Protection

Composite helmets offer little protection around their rims; hits near the helmet edge can cause the ballistic material to roll, resulting in penetrations or excessive trauma.  For this reason, the ACH spec has always included this terminology on fair hits:  “An impact resulting in a complete penetration shall be considered unfair if it is within 1.5-inches of another impact, within 1.5-inches of the closest edge of any hole, within 1.0-inch of the edge of the helmet.“  

On the streets and in the field, not all shots are fair.  But the NovaSteel™ Helmet has you covered: It offers full edge-to-edge protection – which vastly increases its area of protective coverage.  A leading competitor’s helmet offers 136 square inches of coverage in a size L – but the stated protective area of that helmet is under 90 square inches.  The steel helmet offers well over 110 square inches of real protection.

Comfort and balance

As the steel helmet is not capable of significant deformation upon impact, thick pads are not required, and the standoff distance between the helmet and the head is reduced.  Additionally, the shell is up to six times thinner than standard aramid or UHMWPE helmets.  Ultimately, this makes for a more streamlined helmet, a better-balanced helmet, and a lower-profile target.  Furthermore, the retention system developed by Adept offers real adjustability and stability, without ratchets or other mechanical parts that may break if handled roughly.

Modularity

A broad array of accessories are available or in development:

• NVG shroud
• M-Lok side rails
• Ballistic mandible
• Ballistic visor
• Blast liner set
• Rifle-rated ballistic applique

The NovaSteel™ Helmet is a platform, designed to be extremely customizable.

The World’s Toughest Ballistic Helmet

 

The NovaSteel™ Helmet steel helmet boasts traits that cannot be matched by any other combat helmet.  Incomparable toughness.  Near-zero shell deformation upon impact.  Excellent performance against high-velocity special threats.  A top-tier padding system.  A pedigree that hearkens back to previous generations of the American fighting man.  A price affordable for large-scale military procurement.

Several patents pending.  The NovaSteel helmet is the first and the definitive modern steel ballistic combat helmet.

NovaSteel™ Helmet – High Cut

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