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MH3 Tactical Headset System

                   

 


The MH3 Tactical Headset System is the first and only fully adjustable tactical bone vibration headset available in the marketplace today. Its design is the result of several years of development coupled with field tests and evaluations by tactical operators from both the law enforcement and military arenas. As the 20th Century came to a close, some tactical helmet designs and chin strapping systems began to change. Many of the tactical headsets available on the market, to that point, utilized headbands that required positioning over the top of the head. Several of the newer helmet designs conflicted with these styles of headsets rendering some of them obsolete – virtually overnight.

Recognizing some helmet systems are more conducive to a headset design that implements a vertical rather than horizontal head frame or band, please see the information detailing additional MH Series Tactical Headset Systems elsewhere in this website.

It was our challenge to develop a headset system that not only avoided conflict with the newer helmet designs but also to take a radically new approach – to design a headset system that allowed each operator to custom fit the headset to their unique head and face size. Until now, the majority of tactical headsets available were of the “one-size-fits-all” variety and in reality, few of them properly fit anyone. Tactical operators had been forced to accept the headset that fit ‘best’ rather than one that truly fit ‘properly’. The MH3 is the first and only 4-way adjustable tactical headset in the world!

     
   
 

Utilizing bone vibration transducer technology (receiving radio communications through the facial bones rather than the ear canal), the MH3 affords the tactical operator the operational advantage of having NO speaker hardware in, on or over the ear(s) – allowing 360 degrees of unobstructed natural hearing of ambient auditory sounds. Radio transmissions are received through the transducer(s), transferred through the temporal bones of the face and received in the inner ear canal. The MH3 Tactical Headset System can be ordered with single or dual transducers for receiving. Generally, tactical law enforcement teams (SWAT) choose a single transducer system for reception while military clientele choose a dual transducer system due to their probability of needing to communicate in higher ambient noise environments.

The MH3’s submersible, (1m) noise canceling, microphone provides the operator the advantage of being able to cancel out competing noise in his operating environment when transmitting. When the push-to-talk button is activated, the finely tuned MH Series microphone effectively cancels out competing environmental noise while transmitting clearly and concisely.

       
       
 


A wide variety of push-to-talk assemblies provide a choice for specialized needs. For instance, a WMD team – wearing Level A suits – has very different needs for a PTT system than that of a SWAT operator. The bulky and confining design of a Level A suit/gloves does not allow for easy access to the smaller style PTT buttons normally chosen by tactical law enforcement and military operatives. Rather than force our clients to choose from only one or two PTT designs – we currently offer 5 different systems plus 2 remote finger switches.

In the past it was believed that headsets incorporating a boom microphone could not be used effectively with gas masks or SCBAs. In many cases, depending upon the sensitivity of the microphone element and overall design of the boom arm, this was factual and teams were forced to use an in-the-ear or throat mounted microphone. The MH Series Custom Breathing Apparatus/Headset Adapter kits provide the tactical operator the ability to communicate clearly and effectively through a variety of breathing apparatus/masks while enjoying the advantages of a boom microphone headset system. One of our competitors, who represents both an in-the-ear bone microphone system manufactured in Denmark and throat-mikes manufactured in England, remarks - in an online video – …”you’ll never get a better quality of sound than that which you get with a boom microphone.” We concur – if the tactical headset features a high quality, noise-canceling element and rigid, articulated boom arm. All MH Series Tactical Headset Systems feature just such a microphone system