Forum: Modern Military Aircraft

I don't know if this will be helpful to you as my knowledge of the face shield is quite basic. What I do know is that it's used by Blackhawk crews, especially door gunners to protect their faces from debris and wind during combat operations. I understand that is used especially by MH-60L (MH-60 with doors and side windows usually removed to conserve weight.) SOAR units. I don't think that it has any defensive ballistic capabilities outside of debris and contains no extra communications equipment. It is simply a protective face shield. It would also seem to make communication in such an environment easier as it blocks out rotor noise picked up by the crewmans mic. Terrifying looking though isn't it.