French Desert F1 Helmet cover .

Hi Guys .

I picked this lid and cover up recently. It is dated 2001 ( Gulf war 2 ).

Basically I assumed these covers,and therefore the F1 lids were superseded by the Spectra by this date...anybody got any info too add to this theory

All help will be greatly appreciated towards my research

Hello, this is a cover helmet for helmet F1 camouflaged sand, the second model for the ground staff of the Air Force in Afghanistan and Ivory Cost in another.

US0844 wrote:Hello, this is a cover helmet for helmet F1 camouflaged sand, the second model for the ground staff of the Air Force in Afghanistan and Ivory Cost in another.

Thanks Mate.

That is VERY useful info,especially about the ground staff of the Air Force in Afghanistan, great stuff ,thanks again

Your blog is great too....do you know when the spectra helmet was introduced in general use

Hi mate, you will all informtions you need about french spectra helmet on this following link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECTRA_helmet

have fun

ladrang wrote:Hi mate, you will all informtions you need about french spectra helmet on this following link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECTRA_helmet

have fun

Cool thanks mate,and course it is in use by Canada, I forgot that, good old Wikipedia, a wealth of knowledge for research purposes, there does not appear to be too much info on these Dugeut covers......

Easy Gee wrote:

US0844 wrote:Hello, this is a cover helmet for helmet F1 camouflaged sand, the second model for the ground staff of the Air Force in Afghanistan and Ivory Cost in another.

Thanks Mate.

That is VERY useful info,especially about the ground staff of the Air Force in Afghanistan, great stuff ,thanks again

Your blog is great too....do you know when the spectra helmet was introduced in general use

Thank you, for the spectra helmet >>> http://world-war-helmets.com/fiche.php?q=Casque-Francais-Mle-Spectra

Hi mate you re right, we have a better helmet...of course We use almost the same webbing parts but we call it CG634 .

US0844 wrote:

Easy Gee wrote:

US0844 wrote:Hello, this is a cover helmet for helmet F1 camouflaged sand, the second model for the ground staff of the Air Force in Afghanistan and Ivory Cost in another.

Thanks Mate.

That is VERY useful info,especially about the ground staff of the Air Force in Afghanistan, great stuff ,thanks again

Your blog is great too....do you know when the spectra helmet was introduced in general use

Thank you, for the spectra helmet >>> http://world-war-helmets.com/fiche.php?q=Casque-Francais-Mle-Spectra

Your most welcome ,and thanks again,I am aware of this excellent french helmet website and have used it before ,so thanks for the tip

ladrang wrote:Hi mate you re right, we have a better helmet...of course We use almost the same webbing parts but we call it CG634 .

I'm not sure if it's better, and as a complete Francophile,my loyalties lie with France, but perhaps we could say,that Canada adapted an all ready cool French lid




Vive le france,and God save Canada,

Hi mate you re right it s a 100% french helmet for the 1st pattern after that we produce 'em. It will be better it was a 100% canadian made

The manufacturer of your helmet cover is Belgian...that's curious ! Tielt is a city in northern Belgium and Seyntex is a manufacturer for military items. I also think they made french body armor...

http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/personal/seyntex/

Easy Gee wrote:and as a complete Francophile,my loyalties lie with France

Wait, but you're English... Warning! Error: does not compute!

All joking aside, you've got a neat helmet, Gary!

ladrang wrote:Hi mate you re right it s a 100% french helmet for the 1st pattern after that we produce 'em. It will be better it was a 100% canadian made

The best of both worlds is probably the best way to look at this situaction, cool design stolen from the PASGT,French F1 chinstraps, and then adapted again for Canadian use....Spectra bit of a hybrid really I guess

P-E wrote:The manufacturer of your helmet cover is Belgian...that's curious ! Tielt is a city in northern Belgium and Seyntex is a manufacturer for military items. I also think they made french body armor...

http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/personal/seyntex/

The french are famous for contracting kit out to other manafacturers,case in point CCE pattern Jackets made in Madrid, Seyntex also make Paddy Cam,amonst others..

Ben wrote:

Easy Gee wrote:and as a complete Francophile,my loyalties lie with France

Wait, but you're English... Warning! Error: does not compute!

All joking aside, you've got a neat helmet, Gary!

I live in England,but my heart lies in France.....given the choice I would prefer to live in France,England is not all it's cracked up to be

I'm glad you like my new addition

The manufacturer of your helmet cover is Belgian...that's curious ! Tielt is a city in northern Belgium and Seyntex is a manufacturer for military items. I also think they made french body armor...

http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/personal/seyntex/

Thanks PE, you ve always the good information, the link is really interesting. I think the french BDU uniform are made in Spain, if I'm not mistaken.