Steel helmet (helmet) SH-40, 1942

The original helmet is in satisfactory collectible condition. The helmet was found at the battlefields in Karelia in a swamp, thanks to which the original color was preserved by 80%. The original chin strap and balaclava have already been delivered by us. Height 1. The stamp is well readable. It should be noted that the SS-40 helmets produced during the war are practically not on sale today. Guarantee of authenticity.

SH-40 is a steel helmet of the 1940 model, a means of individual protection of military personnel, widely used in the Armed Forces by the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War and in the post—war years, until more advanced models SH-60 and SH-68 were supplied.

Before the war, the tests of the SH-40 were carried out at the Shchurovsky training ground near Moscow. The leading expert on armored helmets is Lieutenant Colonel V. Orlov. During the war, it was produced by the Krasny Oktyabr Metallurgical Plant and the Lysvensky Metallurgical Plant, then in connection with the battles for Stalingrad, only the latter. Acceptance tests of finished products included a selective (from the batch) assessment of the helmet's armor resistance in the shooting range of the enterprise by firing a simple bullet, a cartridge with a reduced (reduced) charge, from a 7.62 mm rifle of the 1891/30 model. The shooting distance was 25 meters. The speed of the limit of conditioned lesions (PKP) of the helmet was about 300 m/s.

The design of the SH-40 differs from the previous model, the SH-39, by the sub-track device used, simpler and stronger. Hence their main external difference: in the SH-40, six rivets were used to fasten the sub-track device, in the SH-39 — three. The podtulein device consists of three parts-"petals" made of dermatin, artificial leather or fabric, which are connected in the upper part of the helmet by a cord designed to adjust (fit) the SSH for ease of wearing. On the inside of each petal there is a cushioning pad made of cotton wool. The canvas chin strap consists of two halves attached to rings on the sides of the helmet. One of the parts at the free end has a sliding buckle; the end of the other half is compressed by a semicircular metal mandrel.

Unlike previous models of steel helmets, the SH-40 was produced in only three sizes ("numbers"). The weight of the steel part of the helmet (without a sub—muzzle device) of the largest size is 800 g.