Israeli IDf Orlite helmet

[Jerry B]

Oh no...not ANOTHER "M76"!!!!! :-)

...he'll be along shortly.....

I got the name from your website....

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https://www.world-war-helmets.com/fiche?q=Casque-Israelien-OR-201

[Jerry B]

The link is not to Ade's site, just the forum is playing silly buggers and wont let me edit it ffs

[Tinhat]

Another of those I mentioned, same earlyish number 410 406 152 with serial number 0391, said by seller to be dated 1978 which fits with what we know..

Another piece of the puzzle, as I said the serial numbers look low, Israel had 78,000 soldiers committed the initial 1982 Lebanon invasion, assume 50% are front line combat troops that in all photos are equipped with 201s, that's 550 helmets a months from start of manufacture, it's all speculative but that's that why I think it is linked to month of manufacture. The label shown above with serial number 666 is slightly different, it reads "May 1994 serial # 666"