THE BRAND NEW OPTIO – BOLTLESS & BETTER BALANCE with PROTECTION beyond NIJ IIIA
ULBRICHTS Protection will be featuring its BRAND NEW OPTIO HELMET.
This new ballistic helmet is BOLTLESS Handgun protection beyond NIJ IIIA with a better balance on your head in 3 different cuts.
ULBRICHTS is already famous for its unrivaled helmets widely used by police forces and special units throughout the world. Now, the product range is based on the new lightweight OPTIO (three different cuts), a boltless upgrade of our First Responder model that comes with a strong motto:
With heavy body armor, you protect your heart but why don’t you protect your brain with a helmet weighing only 2.63 lbs (1.2 kg)?
The common head protection of army unit soldiers and police officers using NIJ IIIA helmet size lacking in ballistic protection, as they only focus on the mandatory stopping of handgun projectiles, but not on the trauma / BFS / BFD prevention coming from the lethal backface deformation leading to death.
Our stake is: Survivability
By survivability, one must understand that for saving a soldier’s life, it is essential not only to stop a bullet but also to protect the wearer from a deadly brain trauma caused by the backface deformation of the helmet.
The dramatic lesson taught by several tests is that most or nearly all NIJ IIIA helmets commonly issued to the army and police units efficiently protect against shrapnel but not against any of the most widely spread ammunition fired in current armed conflicts:
When hit by 9x19 handgun ammunition they cause deadly trauma and when hit by rifle ammo like 7.62x36mm MSC fired by Kalashnikov variants or .223 fired by M4A1 variants, or the .308 fired by sniper rifles they are even fully penetrated.
The ULBRICHTS OPTIO offers true protection beyond NIJ IIIA starting at 2.63 lbs (1.2 kg), whilst standard military NIJ IIIA helmets have a deadly backface deformation when hit by a handgun and a hole when hit by rifle ammunition.
The new material, POLYTANIUM (a special combination of polyethylene and titanium) increases the currently unrivaled efficiency of ULBRICHTS helmets.
Protection beyond NIJ IIIA in the meaning of protection surface
NIJ IIIA defines a protection surface starting 1,9685 inches (50mm) from the rim of the helmet and from every bolt and screw in the helmet shell. To ULBRICHTS, this protection surface is not enough.
The boltless OPTIO starting at 2.63 lbs (1.2 kg) as a classical high-cut helmet, also called JUMP, breaches this ballistic performance by far. The protection surface starts compared to NIJ IIIA helmets at 0,7874+0,1969 inches (20+5 mm) stopping ballistic threats acc. NIJ IIIA prevents severe backface deformation according to the German VPAM3 HVN2009 at 1,9685 inches (50mm) from the rim. This ensures reproductive test results with survivable trauma values below 25 joules according to VPAM HVN2009 tested on standardized ballistic soap heads or <0,59 inches (<15mm) BFD according to NIJ IIIA recommendations).
While other helmets have problems with trauma values or secondary fragments or shrapnel when bolts and screws are hit, the ULBRICHTS OPTIO skips this through its boltless design. This brings another special mark to the OPTIO, as the protective surface can be increased by 20-30% thanks to the boltless design and no ballistic gaps.