Ballistic Helmet ATE® Lite HHV

Great fit, sizing is just like the turtle shell, snug and comfortable though

Awesome helmet. Extremely light and comfortable.

I brought it back a star for only one reason. The retention strap is designed funky. The chin cup can center on your chin, but you have to adjust the grommets to do so and awkwardly adjust the buckles at various and uneven locations. The right side strap that is nearest to your cheek pretty much lays straight on the front of your cheek bone with the strap in your field of view and angling forward instead of straight down. The left strap where the magnetic buckle lies goes the opposite direction back towards the rear of your jaw. No matter what I did to get the straps straight, the chin cup would be way off center and most towards the buckle making it incredibly uncomfortable. Even the instructional video showed the chin cup was off center on the instructor. My opinion, the left side temple strap needs to be adjusted back roughly 1.5” from the chin cup along the jaw strap and it will end up center. My suggestion is to get the WENDY retention strap with the BOA system as it is far superior, lines up even with all straps and adjusting buckles and does not block your field of visibility. Other than that, the helmet slaps and I love the mesh pads as it breathes amazingly well. Plus, they give you a Rambo headband and a skully to mitigate the “waffle skin” effect for those that don’t have hair that goes down to their eyebrows or are bald.

It's very light but you can tell from the construction it's made very well. I haven't had an opportunity to use it yet, but I have no doubt it will serve me well when needed.

When it comes to armored brain buckets I've always been a little weary of the civilian side of things. Knowing from the get go it was a bunch of fellow vets with quality looking product I pulled the trigger. Shipping was super fast(I've delt with ar500 and their notorious lead times), less that a week to my door step if I've got my time frames correct. But let's get down to the dope...

The micro lattice pads are a whole game changer, but unless you like your forehead looking like Gina's waffle cone at the diner, use the thoughtfully supplied skull cap or sweat band.

This thing is light weight! While I am an old psagt and first Gen mich vet, even after I loaded her down with nvgs and all my "geardo" **** it's still a good 1/3 of the weight of my psagt helmet.

The Velcro outer attachment points have solid glue backing that seems like it would stand the test of time. The HHV side rails are imo much MUCH nicer than arc/Wendy rails.

The quick release chinstrap and adjustments make on the fly changes quick and easy, and don't even get me started with the headband adjustment on these, rig stays on my melon while running, crawling and prone shooting. Only time I did decide that I needed the chin strap instead of John wanting it, was in the side by side and that was understandable. Absolutely love the whole kit.

Word of advice tho, if you're mounting comms/ear pro get the low profile adaptor from HHV. I DIDNT, but I immediately corrected this error.

Keep it upy friends! Quality product and I'm proud of y'all and have been spreading the good word on HHV!