ESTIMATED LEAD TIME: 30-35 Days
The Gear: A quality ABS Bump Helmet outfitted with a Night Vision shroud, and rails for mounting other advantageous equipment, such as lights, communication equipment, etc.
The Tactic: A helmet eliminates the need for using the uncomfortable "skullcrusher" head-mount system that comes standard with many Night Vision devices. It provides a reasonable amount of protection, while maintaining the ease and comfort of a lightweight solution.
CRITICAL GEAR AND TACTICS DOES NOT RECOMMEND A BALLISTIC HELMET IN A NIGHT VISION SITUATION. HERE'S WHY: The entire point of a Night Vision solution is to provide you with a tactical advantage. Specifically, it is designed to allow you to observe and/or target without being spotted. A Ballistic helmet will provide you with protection against Handguns only, and even then, that protection is often restricted to glancing blows. In exchange for this, you pay a premium price, and take on additional weight/discomfort. We won't sugar coat it. If you are ever in a Night Vision situation where someone is close enough to be firing a handgun at you with any degree of accuracy, your problems are much bigger than a Ballistic helmet is going to solve. The reduction of weight and ease of movement a decent Bump Helmet will provide is going to serve you MUCH better.
