M87 kevlar helmet

The M87 is a combat helmet of South African origin manufactured by South African Pith Helmet Industries (S.A.P.H.I) of Rosslyn.^[1]^[2] The M87 replaced the steel M63 helmet during the late 1980s, and saw extensive use during the South African Border War, which took place from 1966 to 1989 in South-West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. It is the current standard helmet of the South African National Defence Force.

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Ancient	Attic Boar's tusk Boeotian Chalcidian Coolus Corinthian Galea Illyrian type Imperial Kegelhelm Konos Late Roman ridge Montefortino Negau Phrygian Shmarjet

Medieval and Early Modern	Armet Aventail Barbute Bascinet Burgonet Cervelliere Close Enclosed Falling buffe Frog-mouth Great Hounskull Kabuto Kettle Lobster-tailed pot Mempo Morion Nasal Pickelhaube Sallet Secrete Spangenhelm

1914 to 1945	Adrian Brodie Bulgarian M36 Danish M1923 German Stahlhelm Greek M1934/39 Italian M33 M42 Duperite M1 Mk III Portuguese M1940 Polish wz. 31 RAC Soviet of WWII Swiss L'Eplattenier

Post 1945	Advanced Combat CABAL II CCB CG634 Enhanced Combat (Aust) Enhanced Combat (US) Flight GOLFO Head Gear System HSAT Iraqi M80 Iraqi M90 JK 96 Lightweight Mº 44 E.T.A. M63 M76 Para M87 M1C Mk 6 Mk 7 Modèle 1951 Modèle 1978 Modular Integrated Communications MPC-1 OR-201 Paratrooper PASGT Sfera SPECTRA SSh-60 SSh-68 Type 66

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