Friends who like to watch anti-war dramas will definitely find that in some of the more elaborate TV series, the steel helmets of Japanese soldiers always like to cover a layer of nets. So the question is: what is the use of this layer of fishing net-like stuff? Why did the Japanese army deploy such a thing?
In fact, there are really some exquisite things in this, and this is really a long story.
Japan in the history of the modern world
Although Japan is also a great power in modern history. However, although this great power can walk sideways in Asia, in the eyes of Western countries, Japan is a second-rate level, even if it does not climb on its knees.
Because Japan, the great power, its comprehensive national strength, and Europe's Britain, France and Germany are still far from becoming rivals, Italy belongs to the little prince of comedy among the great powers, then Japan is at best Luther in the great powers.
1. Loose Japan
Around the time of the Entry of the Qing Dynasty, the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan also established its rule over Japan. However, unlike the Qing court, the orders of the Qing court can be effectively implemented throughout the Qing Dynasty. The orders of the Japanese shogunate needed to be carried out by local princes.
In the mid-19th century, the forces of Western colonists came to Yangdong and colonized China and Japan. Progressives in China and Japan have also launched a salvation campaign. However, the results are very different.
In China, because of the cost of more than two thousand years of high centralization, any innovative force was nipped in the bud, and this order was not broken until the beginning of the Xinhai Revolution. The overthrow of the feudal monarchy by the Xinhai Revolution also provided conditions for the development of the later Bolsheviks in China.
Japan, on the other hand, is relatively easy. Japan's progressive princes did not reach the point where Japan needed reforms, and the princes launched the famous War of Collapse. The Japanese Tokugawa shogunate sent a large army to suppress it, but was defeated by the fallen shogunate and the shogunate was forced to disintegrate.
However, after the victory of the princes, the princes did not change the nature of Japan's division. Therefore, the emperor of Japan is actually just the common boss of the princes, and Japan's military and government are still in a loose state.
2. Confrontation between the Navy and the Army
This situation is very obvious in Japanese military circles. Between the two branches of the Japanese army and navy, they are not convinced and look down on each other. Japan's funding is relatively limited. Therefore, in the face of the allocation of military expenses, the contradiction between the Japanese Navy and the Army is even more serious.
Japan's top brass weighed in that the tilt of money should support the Navy more. Because Japan is a maritime nation, naval resources should be invested more. Of course, the army is also important, but after all, the money is so much, this long and the other, it is impossible to take care of both sides. This made the Army hate the Navy even more.
But to be fair, Japan's money spent on the Navy is really not in vain. Because after the Pacific War, Japan's national strength can start from 1941, and the United States tossed and turned to 1945, if it were not for the fact that the Navy spent enough money, it is estimated that Japan would have been hit by the US military to the mainland.
However, the Army really doesn't think so. For example, the army feels that against a country with a huge land like China, the main thing to sell is the army, and the army pays the most sacrifices, but gets the least treatment.
Helmet net
The Japanese Army and the Japanese Navy are indeed not on the same level in terms of equipment. The so-called "poor think about change". Therefore, the Japanese Army needs to use the least amount of money to do the biggest things.
As a result, the Japanese also put enough effort into the small steel helmet to minimize the cost of sacrifice. For example, the net of the Japanese helmet is a masterpiece in this context. Adding a net to the helmet can be described as a lot of benefits.
1. Convenient to avoid light
From 1938 onwards, the main opponent of the Japanese army was actually the armed forces behind enemy lines.
Due to the poor infrastructure of our country at that time, most rural areas did not have railways and roads. This greatly facilitated guerrilla activities. Japan then needed to sneak up on our army. Or by means of ambush, to ambush our army.
However, the metal used to make steel helmets is prone to reflections — especially at night , and is prone to reflecting moonlight and exposing targets of action.
But if such a layer of network is added, then its effect is very different. The light reflection will form a diffuse reflection due to the interference and destruction of this layer of net, and ultimately, ensure the secrecy of the Japanese soldiers' targets.
2. Reduce noise
Of course, in the state of position warfare, the function of this layer of network cannot be underestimated.
From a physical point of view, the process of mortar work, the sound traveled, may shock the eardrums of artillerymen, and artillery bring disability. However, it is always impossible to abolish the artillery as a branch because of this factor.
Therefore, Japan's ordnance experts pondered and thought that they could put a layer of net on their helmets. Then tie some leaves and something like that on this layer of nets. In this way, according to the conservation of energy, the noise vibrates the leaves, a process that means that the noise is converted into kinetic energy through the helmet and is released, which can reduce the consumption of the soldier's body.
3. Avoid stray bullets
In addition, there is the effect of avoiding stray bullets.
Sometimes, after the shell explodes, the debris will randomly burst into its own position. If you just hit the helmet of the Japanese army, this huge impact force can easily bring concussion to the Japanese soldiers.
And this layer of mesh, when making, the material process is more special - for example, this layer of mesh has super properties in terms of elasticity and toughness. Therefore, when a stray bullet flies over, if it hits the net, there are generally two consequences.
One convention was bounced back, eventually offsetting the damage done to the Japanese soldiers.
The other was that the stray bullets struck this layer of nets, and their trajectory changed due to the sudden change of force, which eventually only caused a little scratch on the helmet of the Japanese soldier.
In addition, if this layer of net is inserted with branches and the like, it is also convenient to hide in jungle combat.
It can be said that it is beneficial and harmless.