What is Adrian Helmet ?

During world war 1, the first combat helmet was issues to the french army. Called the Adrian helmet, and introduced in 1915, it is often described as the first modern steel helmet.
It was designed to protect french troops in trenches from head wounds from falling shrapnel.
Now new research found it performs better then modern military helmets in protecting the head from shock waves created by over head blast.
In protection from ballistics and blunt impacts, modern military helmets have advanced, but in terms of protecting brain from shock waves from nearby blast, the modern helmets are no better than WWI helmets, biomedical engineers of Duke university have found.
And the Adrian helmet , in particular, actually performed better then modern designs in protecting from overhead blasts, the researchers reported last week in the journal PLOS ONE.

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