Ancient militaries

ModelOriginUsers Attic helmet ancient Greeks Boar's tusk helmet 17th century BC Mycenaean Greeks until the 10th century BC Boeotian helmet ancient Greek cavalry Chalcidian helmet ancient Greeks Coolus helmet ancient Romans Corinthian helmet ancient Greeks Disc and stud helmet c. 400 BC ancient Illyrians & Adriatic Veneti until 167 BC Galea (helmet) ancient Romans Horned helmet c. 1000 BC Celtic Europeans until 700 AD Illyrian type helmet ancient Greeks Imperial helmet 1st century AD onwards Roman Empire Imperial Chinese helmet 1st century AD imperial Chinese dynasties Kegelhelm ancient Greeks Negau helmet ancient Etruscans in Negau, Slovenia Montefortino helmet ancient Romans Pilos ancient Greeks Pot helmet ancient Illyrians Phrygian/Thracian helmet 5th century BC ancient Greeks in Thrace, Dacia, Italia & Hellenistic Europe until c. 200 AD Zhou helmet 7th century BC ancient Chinese in Zhou dynasty

Medieval and early modern armies

ModelOriginUsers Armet 15th century Western Europeans. Barbute 15th century Italian states. Bascinet c. 1300 Europeans Burgonet c. 1600 Europeans, especially by militias of Poland & Switzerland Lobster-tailed potCapelineZischägge late 16th century Europeans during the 17th century, including the English Civil War in England & Thirty Years' War across the Holy Roman Empire Cervelliere late 13th century Christian Europeans in Crusades during the 14th century Close helmet late 15th century Europeans. Dragoon helmet late 18th century France. Enclosed helmet late 12th century Western Europeans. Frog-mouth helm c. 1600 Europeans. Great helm 1189 Europeans Hounskull 14th century Europeans. Kabuto c. 1600 Samurai especially during the 17th century of the Edo-period Tokugawa shogunate in Medieval Japan. Kettle hat 12th century Common all over medieval Europe. Morion 16th and early 17th centuries Europeans (esp. associated with Spanish Conquistadores) Nasal helmet Early Middle Ages Byzantine Empire, later common all over Europe. Pickelhaube 1842 especially by Prussia & German Empire and other Europeans until 1918 Raupenhelm c. 1800–1870 High crested leather helmet used primarily by Kingdom of Bavaria and Kingdom of Württemberg Sallet c. 1450 Europeans Secrete 17th century Western Europeans SpangenhelmSimon Coupland, "Carolingian Arms and Armor in the Ninth Century ", (accessed 10 March 2006). 5th century Central Asia, Near East & Europe; espec. by Scythians, Sarmatians, Persians, & Germans until 1000 Tarleton helmet c. 1770–1800 Crested, peaked leather helmet used by cavalry and light infantry and British Royal Horse Artillery, France and United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries Turban helmet 14th century Ottoman Empire Qing parade helmet after 1655 till 1911 China Zischagge c. 1600–1780 Originated in the Ottoman Empire; used throughout Europe

See also headgear listing within Components of medieval armour.

1914–1980

ModelImageOrigins First issuedUsers Adrian helmet France 1915, 1926 France, Belgium, Russian Empire, Poland, Japan Imperial Japanese Navy Land Forces, Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, U.S., USSR, Irish Free State, Kingdom of Italy, Republic of China, Manchukuo, Peru, Finland, Romania, Mexico, Greece, Uruguay, Thailand, Brazil, Ukrainian People's Republic Belarusian People's Republic Heaumes Page Modèle 1951 France 1951 France, South Vietnam, South Africa, Cambodia, Laos, Lebanon, Israel, Portugal, Rhodesia Modèle 1978 France 1978 France, Senegal Brodie helmet UK 1915, 1938 UK, Canada, U.S. (1917–1942), Australia, Republic of China, Pakistan, Poland (Polish Armed Forces in the West), Estonia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, South Africa, India, the Netherlands, Portugal, Luxembourg, Philippines Ukrainian People's Republic Provisional Government of Free India Republic of Russia Zuckerman helmet UK 1940 "Civilian Protective Helmet" Helmet Steel Airborne Troop UK 1941 UK, Canada, Poland (Polish Armed Forces in the West), Belgium, Rhodesia RAC helmet UK 1941 Armoured vehicle crews: UK, Canada, Poland (Polish Armed Forces in the West), Belgium Mk III "Turtle" helmet UK 1944 UK, Canada Mk IV helmet UK 1945 UK, Canada Stahlhelm German Empire 1916, 1917, 1918 German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, Irish Free State, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland Stahlhelm M16 Austria-Hungary 1916 Austria-Hungary, German Empire, Weimar Republic, Poland, Austria, Nazi Germany, Finland Stahlhelm M18 (Armoured warfare) German Empire 1918 German Empire, Turkey, Weimar Republic Stahlhelm M18 (Telephone and cavalry helmet) German Empire 1918 German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany Stahlhelm M35 Nazi Germany 1935 Nazi Germany, Republic of China, China, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (Home Army) Stahlhelm M40 Nazi Germany 1940 Nazi Germany, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (Home Army) Stahlhelm M42 Nazi Germany 1942 Nazi Germany, Hungary, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (Home Army) Italian M16 Lippmann helmet Italy 1916 Italy, Spain M31 helmet Italy 1931 Italy, M33 helmet Italy 1934 Italy, Finland, Greek M1934/39 (helmet) Italy 1939 Greece, Bulgaria M42 helmet Italy 1942 Italy M1917 helmet U.S. 1917 US, PhilippinesM76 paratrooper helmetUnited Kingdom1976British Armed forces Paratroopers and Airborne units M1 helmet U.S. 1941 USA, Mexico, Canada, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, West Germany (1956-1992), Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Republic of China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, South Korea (Bangtan Helmet), Philippines (1944–1991), Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Guatemala, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Uruguay, South Vietnam Swiss M1918,Swiss M1918/40 Switzerland 1918 Switzerland, Argentina Swiss M1971 Switzerland 1971 Switzerland Danish M1923 helmet Denmark 1923 Denmark Belgian M26/32 Belgium 1926 Belgium, Luxembourg, Thailand Swedish M1926 Sweden 1926 Sweden, Finland, Norway Swedish M1937 Sweden 1937 Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia Spanish M1921 Spain 1926 (?) Spain Spanish M1926 Spain 1930 (?) Spain Spanish M1934 Spain ? Spain M1942 Modelo Z Spain ? Spain M1942/79 Modelo Z Spain ? Spain Netherlands M23/27, Netherlands M34 Netherlands 1928 Netherlands, Romania Hełm wz. 28 Poland 1928 Poland Hełm wz. 30 Poland 1930 Poland Hełm wz. 31 Poland 1931 Poland, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Finland Hełm wz. 31/50 Poland 1945 Poland Hełm wz. 50 Poland 1950 Poland, Albania, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, North Vietnam, Israel, Croatia Hełm wz. 63 (Paratrooper helmet) Poland 1963 Poland, East Germany, Iraq Hełm wz. 64 Poland 1964 Poland Hełm wz. 65 Poland 1964 Poland Hełm wz. 67 Poland 1967 Poland, Egypt, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan Hełm wz. 70 Poland 1967 Poland Irish M1927 Ireland 1927 Ireland Norwegian M31 Sweden 1931 NorwayType 90 (also called: Type 30–32, Type 92) Japan 1931 Japan, Thailand, China Type 66 Japan 1966 Variant of M1 Helmet used by some elements of the JSDF Ground Forces Czechoslovak M32 helmet Czechoslovakia 1932 Czechoslovakia, Nazi Germany, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Slovak Republic, FinlandCzechoslovak M53 helmet Czechoslovakia 1953 Czechoslovakia Hungarian M35 Hungary 1935 Hungary Hungarian M38 Hungary 1938 Hungary, Finland Hungarian M50 Hungary 1950 Hungary Hungarian M70 Hungary 1970 Hungary SSh-36 Soviet Union 1936 Soviet Union SSh-39 Soviet Union 1939 Soviet Union, Poland SSh-40 Soviet Union 1940 Soviet Union (Warsaw Pact), Poland, People's Republic of China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Finland, Afghanistan SSh-60 Soviet Union 1960 Soviet Union (Warsaw Pact), Afghanistan SSh-68 Soviet Union 1968 Soviet Union (Warsaw Pact), Afghanistan, Syria (Russian army, Afghanistan Army, Armenian Army, Azerbaijan Army, Belarus Army, Georgia Army, Moldova Army, Nicaragua Army, Philippines (Army reservists), Syrian Army, Ukraine Army, Uzbekistan Army, Vietnam Army) Bulgarian M36 helmet Bulgaria 1936 BulgariaБългарските Военни Каски Portuguese M1940 Portugal 1940 Portugal M42 Duperite helmet (Paratrooper helmet) Australia 1942 Australia Mº 44 E.T.A. de Paracaidista used by Argentine Paratroopers Argentina 1944 Argentina M63 Staaldak South Africa 1963 Rhodesia, South Africa US Navy Mk II talker helmet U.S. 1942 US M59/85 Yugoslavia 1958 Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Republika Srpska, Macedonia, Serbia

1980–present