New research suggests helmets used in World War I protected soldiers against overhead artillery blasts just as well as modern helmets—and one, the French Adrian helmet, actually performed better.

A study claiming a French World War I helmet was better at mitigating TBI got it wrong, according to the Army.

Your great-grandfather’s World War I helmet that’s stuffed in the back of the closet could be just as effective at preventing brain injury from some blasts as a modern-day military helmet, a ...

According to new research from Duke University, the best helmet to protect soldiers from shockwaves and direct impacts may be a French helmet from WWI, which outperformed its modern equivalent.

Combat helmets have always been made to protect against blunt objects, not blast waves. Despite improvements in helmet design, battlefield brain injuries continue.

Although helmet technology has evolved considerably in the intervening century since World War I, it is primarily ballistics and blunt force that today’s helmets are designed to withstand. On those ...

A helmet used by French soldiers in World War I provided better protection from overhead blasts than a modern American model, according to a US university study.

A French army helmet used in World War I was as valuable in protecting from shock waves as modern counterparts, a Duke University study revealed on Friday.