AliExpress Ballistic Helmet Fail

[u/FaithlessnessHot1912]

I bought an NIJ IIIa Kevlar Fast Helmet off of AliExpress for fun. After seeing all of the reviews being people making ridiculous claims about the protection and wanting to shoot it, I decided to do it.

I shot the helmet with 22LR Sub, 22LR CCI Target ammo, and Ballistic tipped 30-30. All of which passed through with no resistance, not even so much as moving the helmet. Behind the helmet was a steel gong, and even the spalling of 30-30 passed through. The inside smelled like bondo, and what looked like dry blue power and fibre glass went flying everywhere making the berm smell like an auto shop.

For all the people who want to buy one of these cheap helmets, who own one and don’t want to test it, or like to see money wasted… Don’t Buy This Helmet For Actual Protection. This is an airsoft helmet that is made of fibre glass.

[u/CaptainPeppers]

The idea of trusting your life to something off AliExpress is fucking nuts lol

[u/JustACanadianGuy07 → u/CaptainPeppers]

Surprisingly, some of the stuff off of wish can stop smaller things like .22 and 9mm, and in demo ranche’s video, one plate was able to stop a .50 BMG FMJ

[u/CaptainPeppers → u/JustACanadianGuy07]

You'd never catch me cheaping out in safety equipment lol, especially helmets!

[u/TKB-059 → u/CaptainPeppers]

I don't even trust western made non NIJ. Buying drop shipped Chinese shit is diabolical.

[u/noveltyisthe → u/TKB-059]

Ali would have wanted it this way….

[u/SwampyUndies → u/CaptainPeppers]

Well at least in the case of ballistic helmets. If it fails, you wont know. No 1 star reviews!!

[u/ourstupidearth → u/JustACanadianGuy07]

Your plate might stop a 50bmg but your bones and organs are soup at that point

[u/YuenglingsDingaling → u/ourstupidearth]

I remember that video. It caught the round but turned the plate into a bowl. It would probably punch out your spine.

[u/JustACanadianGuy07 → u/ourstupidearth]

Fair, but its still insane that you can, with a lot of luck, buy basically NIJ IV plates on wish

[u/TrulyMagnificient → u/JustACanadianGuy07]

Problem is you won’t really trust them until they prove themselves capable - at which point they’re toast…

Schrodingers NIJ IV plates

[u/JustACanadianGuy07 → u/TrulyMagnificient]

Buy two. Test one

[u/TrulyMagnificient → u/JustACanadianGuy07]

And trust it’s the same batch, same QA?
You go for it!

[u/JustACanadianGuy07 → u/TrulyMagnificient]

I mean, the plate itself was incredibly thick, even if it doesn’t stop a .50, it will probably stop most rifle rounds, and will stop all pistol rounds.

[u/acidboogie → u/TrulyMagnificient]

nah at that point you just flip a coin on which one to trust. You'll never know if you failed the flip anyway

[u/16gaugeguy16 → u/JustACanadianGuy07]

Stopping a round, and effectively stopping a round are two different things though. Many of those cheap plates will send so much spalling (bullet fragments) into your neck that you may as well not have a plate on.

[u/0f0o3 → u/JustACanadianGuy07]

I bought one after that video. To this day it’s still sitting in my closet

[u/ImKindaSweatyy → u/JustACanadianGuy07]

All of those rounds would still kill you from the back-deformation caving in your skull/ribs....